Isn't the Department of Homeland Security the same department that helped label OWS as a terrorist organization? And isn't DHS helping coordinate the sale of military equipment to civilian police departments? But now we're all pro-DHS because republicans are effing up the funding? That's as messed up as the people who hate something simply because Obama is for it.
Maybe this sort of political flip-flopping is one reason low-info voters stay low-info. Sure, republicans will probably get a political black eye over this, but IRL, and away from DC, average people are more free without DHS "coordination".
Of course our national leaders probably should shouldn't say such things, but why are we here getting all pro-DHS all of the sudden? DHS epitomizes much of the authoritarian, surveillance-state crap most of us hate and rail against, doesn't it?
Just today, there were at least two diaries on the rec list about Chicago cops' Homan Square. Who thinks DHS discouraged CPD from maintaining such a facility?
Are we so anti-republican we'd tacitly encourage government intrusiveness just to see R's get a black eye? A black eye remembered about as long as every other republican fuck-up?
Next time one of us gets arrested for protesting, ask not for whom the schadenfreude tolls...