Teabaggers, turn your knives on the DHS!

If budget-cutting Tea Partyers could only harness their negative energy for good, then they would surely be protesting in Washington and raising a ruckus at town hall meetings in order to abolish the Department of Homeland Security.

Think about it. They are deathly afraid of Big Government tyranny. They routinely make up non-existent threats like Obama's private army and FEMA concentration camps. Meanwhile, right in front of their faces is this enormous, amorphous DHS and they ignore it. Why? Because it was Dubya's monster?

Kramer and Hellman are right to point out the DHS's' similarities with the Department of Defense -- verily, the Department of Offense. They call the DHS another rabbit hole down which billions of taxpayer dollars disappear with scant oversight.

Teabaggers, get your act together and do something useful for a change!  P.S. -- Here's a 2002 op-ed by proto-teabagger Ron Paul entitled "The Homeland Security Monstrosity."  Enjoy.

'Homeland security': The trillion-dollar concept that no one can define

By Matte Kramer and Chris Hellman

March 14, 2013 | Al Jazeera

URL: http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2013/03/2013313132824288582.html