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Is it just me, or does DHS really seem like a rogue organization that thinks they're above things like due process?
by jarin 15y ago
Is it just me, or does DHS really seem like a rogue organization that thinks they're above things like due process?
- larrik 15y agoWhich is bad enough when they are, you know, securing the homeland. This kind of thing just makes them look like hired thugs (working essentially for free, no less).
- jarin 15y agoI kind of wonder why there isn't more outrage over stuff like this. I guess I'm either overreacting or people just don't understand it (or don't care).
- wladimir 15y agoThere is quite a lot of outrage over it. But on the other hand, people feel powerless to do anything against these kind of things. There is so much to be outraged about. The current course of events, resulting in more and more restrictions of freedom, seems inevitable.
- marshray 15y agoThere also seems to be a huge segment of the population who don't notice anything at all unless it happens somewhere between their television and the nearest WalMart.
- jrwoodruff 15y agoYea, definitely not for free though. That's my tax money paying their salaries.
- uriel 15y agoThey run the TSA... what did you expect?
- DrJ 15y agosubset of a department being stupid doesn't make the entire department stupid. Classic class inheritance example.
- jarin 15y agoWell in this case, I think the stupidity attribute was probably declared on the parent class.
- colanderman 15y agoIncorrect analogy. A subclass is defined as a class which can be used anywhere its parent can be used. Your comment implies that the TSA could be used to perform any duty of the DHS, which is obviously false. The DHS can however perform any duty of the TSA, since the TSA is under control of the DHS. So yes, stupidity of the child organization does imply some degree of stupidity of the organization as a whole. The converse however is indeed false (incompetence of the DHS does not imply incompetence of say, the Secret Service).