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How surprising is this when Janet Napolitano[1], former Secretary of Homeland Security, is the president of the UC system? [1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/

by gradys 11y ago

How surprising is this when Janet Napolitano[1], former Secretary of Homeland Security, is the president of the UC system? [1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janet_Napolitano https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janet_Napolitano

beachstartup 11y ago
yeah, wow. as a uc alum this is definitely a surprise, and kind of disappointing.
ajmurmann 11y ago
I honestly had no idea she was running the UC system now. I'm actually shocked to see her in that position. That only furthers my disillusion with anything related to politics.
- huac 11y ago
  Condi Rice was the provost of Stanford and is now on the Dropbox board. Norcal has a surprising affinity for neocons...
  - wavefunction 11y ago
    Let's not forget John Yoo, the lawyer for the Bush Administration who kindly wrote the legal memorandum providing justification for an official adoption of torture, who was hired on at Berkeley law. Not only did these criminals never pay for their crimes against humanity, they've been allowed to prosper. It's a shame.
  - jlmorton 11y ago
    Janet Napolitano is a liberal Democrat, former governor of Arizona, and the Secretary of Homeland Security under Barack Obama. How does this make her a neocon?
    - huac 11y ago
      I mean in terms of foreign policy (keep USA an unchallenged number 1 militarily and economically) and willingness to use surveillance as a mechanism of control. I get your point that socially or whatever she's not a neocon, but we're not talking about views on abortion, etc. in this thread. Do you have a better word than neocon? > Janet Napolitano [was] the Secretary of Homeland Security under Barack Obama. That qualifies her w.r.t. surveillance and exercise of power. Sounds a lot like her approach to the UC system! Barack Obama, while a Democrat, commands a fleet of extrajudicial killing machines that have been used to murder American citizens without trial. It was during Napolitano's time at DHS that drones for surveillance and control (read: killing) became cemented as governmental policy. Elsewhere here commenters mentioned John Yoo and Condi Rice for their roles in enabling W's torture policy. How is Napolitano's support for drones (and many other things - http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2013/07/17/janet-napolitanos-orwellian-legacy.html http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2013/07/17/janet-napolitanos-...) different?
- a3n 11y ago
  Janet Napolitano running UC, part of which is Berkeley, the birthplace of the free speech movement. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Speech_Movement https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Speech_Movement Condoleeza Rice on the board of Dropbox, a mainstream file sharing/synching service where some of our "papers and effects" are kept. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dropbox_%28service%29#2014-2015 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dropbox_%28service%29#2014-201... There's a thing called regulatory capture: "Regulatory capture is a form of political corruption that occurs when a regulatory agency, created to act in the public interest, instead advances the commercial or political concerns of special interest groups that dominate the industry or sector it is charged with regulating." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulatory_capture https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulatory_capture This seems like that in reverse. I wonder what kind of capture it should be called.

by gradys 11y ago

beachstartup 11y ago

yeah, wow. as a uc alum this is definitely a surprise, and kind of disappointing.

ajmurmann 11y ago

I honestly had no idea she was running the UC system now. I'm actually shocked to see her in that position. That only furthers my disillusion with anything related to politics.

huac 11y ago
Condi Rice was the provost of Stanford and is now on the Dropbox board. Norcal has a surprising affinity for neocons...
- wavefunction 11y ago
  Let's not forget John Yoo, the lawyer for the Bush Administration who kindly wrote the legal memorandum providing justification for an official adoption of torture, who was hired on at Berkeley law. Not only did these criminals never pay for their crimes against humanity, they've been allowed to prosper. It's a shame.
- jlmorton 11y ago
  Janet Napolitano is a liberal Democrat, former governor of Arizona, and the Secretary of Homeland Security under Barack Obama. How does this make her a neocon?
  - huac 11y ago
    I mean in terms of foreign policy (keep USA an unchallenged number 1 militarily and economically) and willingness to use surveillance as a mechanism of control. I get your point that socially or whatever she's not a neocon, but we're not talking about views on abortion, etc. in this thread. Do you have a better word than neocon? > Janet Napolitano [was] the Secretary of Homeland Security under Barack Obama. That qualifies her w.r.t. surveillance and exercise of power. Sounds a lot like her approach to the UC system! Barack Obama, while a Democrat, commands a fleet of extrajudicial killing machines that have been used to murder American citizens without trial. It was during Napolitano's time at DHS that drones for surveillance and control (read: killing) became cemented as governmental policy. Elsewhere here commenters mentioned John Yoo and Condi Rice for their roles in enabling W's torture policy. How is Napolitano's support for drones (and many other things - http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2013/07/17/janet-napolitanos-orwellian-legacy.html http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2013/07/17/janet-napolitanos-...) different?
a3n 11y ago
Janet Napolitano running UC, part of which is Berkeley, the birthplace of the free speech movement. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Speech_Movement https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Speech_Movement Condoleeza Rice on the board of Dropbox, a mainstream file sharing/synching service where some of our "papers and effects" are kept. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dropbox_%28service%29#2014-2015 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dropbox_%28service%29#2014-201... There's a thing called regulatory capture: "Regulatory capture is a form of political corruption that occurs when a regulatory agency, created to act in the public interest, instead advances the commercial or political concerns of special interest groups that dominate the industry or sector it is charged with regulating." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulatory_capture https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulatory_capture This seems like that in reverse. I wonder what kind of capture it should be called.