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@kiplet I prefer to refer to it as the Department of Fatherland Security.

@kiplet at the time of its creation analysts pointed out uneasily that it was like Nazi Germany and the Fatherland, in the #Beltway these bureaucracy interconnections are difficult to dismantle. My governor, #Tom #Ridge, was first secretary .

@kiplet Feel the same with the UKs "Ministry of Justice" which just sounds like something out of Harry Potter, or 1984...

@kiplet@social.tchncs.de To this day, I feel like I'm the only one who thinks "Homeland" was a real creepy choice when "Domestic" was right there for the taking.

@kiplet@social.tchncs.de Though to be fair, all the creation of the Department of Homeland Security really did was gather together a bunch of already-existing disparate functional groups and put them under a single common administrative structure.

The TSA, on the other hand, was and remains a farce. Pure security theater. Mall cops paid minimum wage to harass people. The last time I'm aware of that ... the FBI I think? probed TSA for effectiveness, over 60% of their 'probes' got through. That's a worse success/fail rate than flipping a coin.

@kiplet Thank you! The world make so much more sense now. I just need to get back to the real timeline.

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I’ve been living in a crazy, dystopian political novel since 1960’s. My understanding of reality and the events I have lived through is quite different from mainstream perceptions. When I first heard that disturbing phrase I looked up the German word for it. Rest assured, however, that I am Antifa to the end against all enemies foreign & domestic.

@kiplet "Homeland" as a concept has never failed to creep me out, nor has the fact that it's taken this long to feel all right about posting that!