[Ed. Note: Remember the phrase the nation was founded on, "Government of the people, for the people, by the people?" If we have government by the people, then how can laws be passed and government agencies be implemented in secret?]

(6) "The planning of Homeland Security was kept so secret that even President Bush’s top aids were kept in the dark. They were not briefed on the proposed massive reorganization of government until the day before it was publicly announced. What is worse, we now discover that this new department was being planned even before Bush took office. Most of the major elements were designed by the Clinton administration and were intended to be implemented by Al Gore when he ascended to the presidency. Naturally, conservative Congressmen would have killed such a bill had it actually been proposed during the Clinton-Gore tenure.

Bush has used his executive order powers 57 times already and created 47 new federal agencies. Homeland Security will bring most of these under one roof, including all military forces in the US under Northcom (Northern Command). Senate bill S.735, section 908 (already passed) weakens the Posse Comitatus act to allow for use of military forces to intervene in domestic social disorder.

When Congress demanded that Homeland Security Czar Tom Ridge appear before them to explain how he intended to spend this money ($37 billion), he flatly refused - even when the Congress agreed to hold the hearings in secret. The department clearly has something to hide.

The department is now saying they will cooperate with Congress - who must approve the reorganization and authorize the funding. But what Congress will see and vote upon will only be the benign portion of this new secret department. Publicly, the Bush Administration is claiming that they will be merging all or portions of the following government agencies into Homeland Security: Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), Coast Guard, Transportation Security Administration, Customs Service, Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS), including the Border Patrol, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, and the Secret Service...the new Homeland Security department also intends to control the following: Commerce Department’s Critical Infrastructure Assurance Office; the National Domestic Preparedness Office and National Infrastructure Protection Center; and the General Services Administration’s Federal Protective Service and Federal Computer Incident Response Capability. I also predict that they will include the Center for Disease Control (CDC) in order to manage the new policy of mandatory immunizations against perceived biological or chemical threats."

Paul Craig Roberts said it best in a recent column: "After the FBI, CIA, Immigration Service and State Department fiascoes that alone made the events of September 11 possible, why does any sane person think a ‘Homeland Security’ department will provide any protection against terrorist acts?" He correctly acknowledges there is a very dark ulterior motive to the government’s anti-terror agenda.

[Ed. Note: Let’s pull our head out of the sand. The ostrich is really not safe by not knowing. Before I discuss this next topic, let me ask you, do you really want to know the truth? The old saying is sometimes true. The truth is stranger than fiction. If a person does not love the truth then they generally won’t find it. It is not enough to listen to it. It is not enough to believe the truth, you have to love it, or you may not ever be shown the truth—at least a lot of it.

2TH 2:10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.]