ex-California Senator Barbara Boxer: “DHS was a mistake, I regret voting for it! I never imagined a President like Trump when I voted to create The Department Of Homeland Security.”
But, where were the libertarians? Why didn’t they speak up.
We are right were we always are – trying to warn you of the dangers of state power. Now the Trump supporters are making the same mistake and libertarians again are trying to warn them that any power you give to Trump is power given to The Office Of The President and may one day to be used against you.
From Jeff Deist:
At this writing, federal agents operating in the City of Roses appear to be from the Department of Homeland Security (sic). Here is what Ron Paul, a true man of peace yet despised by progressives, had to say back in 2002, shortly after the DHS was created with overwhelming support in Congress:
The Homeland Security department, like all federal agencies, will increase in size exponentially over the coming decades. Its budget, number of employees, and the scope of its mission will EXPAND. Congress has no idea what it will have created twenty or fifty years hence, when less popular presidents have the full power of a domestic spying agency at their disposal. The frightening details of the Homeland Security bill, which authorizes an unprecedented level of warrantless spying on American citizens, are still emerging. Those who still care about the Bill of Rights, particularly the 4th amendment, have every reason to be alarmed. But the process by which Congress created the bill is every bit as reprehensible as its contents. Of course the Homeland Security bill did receive some opposition from the President’s critics. Yet did they attack the legislation because it threatens to debase the 4th amendment and create an Orwellian surveillance society? Did they attack it because it will chill political dissent or expand the drug war? No, they attacked it on the grounds that it failed to secure enough high-paying federal union jobs, thus angering one of Washington’s most powerful special interest groups. Ultimately, however, even the most prominent critics voted for the bill.
Go figure—one can’t assume perfect angels when she votes to create an abomination like the Department of Homeland Security. https://t.co/IGCDMP1Q4O
— David S. D’Amato (@dsdamato) July 25, 2020
