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Homeland Security? Intellectual property infringement of media corporations is now relevant to the safety of our nation?

• pyre 16y ago
  Here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1944418 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1944418 ICE is part of Homeland Security, which makes sense because they are the homeland's 'perimeter defense' to some extent, but they aren't solely concerned with finding terrorists, it's immigration and customs.
  • tumult 16y ago
    I don't see where 'security' fits in with this.
    • flipbrad 16y ago
      security of property. pff.
    • pyre 16y ago
      This statement comes across as absolutist. You seem to want to say that every branch of Homeland Security that does anything that is not directly related to security is 'wrong.' IIRC, the Coast Guard is part of Homeland Security. Were you there the last time that they rescued someone at sea claiming that they, "have no business doing this, because it's not related to security?" Should the government have further created more bureaucracy by splitting all of the agencies that were swallowed up into Homeland Security into the parts that directly relate to security, and the parts that don't? Now we need double the boats and double the crews for the Coast Guard and the Coast Rescue agencies... I'm not necessarily arguing that in this case ICE going after these domains makes a whole lot of sense, but holding onto this, "it's not related to security," angle with a death grip doesn't really do much to progress any type of argument.