Mikes Homeland Security

I know this topic has been to death....but.....here's a new look at America's reaction to Sep 11th. It comes from a man named Micheal Moore ( I hope he doesn't mind me posting this) who has a show called "The Awful truth"....A few of you probably know of it......Anyway, here's an email I recieved from him today....

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Michael Moore Announces the Opening of "MIKE'S OFFICE OF HOMELAND
SECURITY"


June 7, 2002

My fellow Americans,

We live in really, really, scary, scary times. BOO! See, you jumped,
didn't
you? I don't blame you. I did too, as I typed it! SCAAARRY TIMES!

Yes, there are thousands of evildoers who are working 24/7 to mess us
up.
Well, actually, it may only be a few hundred.

OK, fine. I'll come clean: It's just three guys -- and they go by the
names
of bin Bush, al-Ashcroft and Abu Cheney.

Yes, these three have put us all in grave danger. Whether it was their
inaction before September 11th, or their actions since September 11th,
they
have made this a less-safe country -- and they are doing their
damnedest to
destroy our constitution and our American way of life. They must be
stopped. Or at least sent on a very long Carnival Cruise.

That is why today I am announcing the creation of MIKE'S OFFICE OF
HOMELAND
SECURITY.

This Office will, each day, issue the necessary warnings to the
American
people (and to the other freaked-out inhabitants of this planet) about
what
precautions and action you and they will need to take. Though not yet a
cabinet-level department (this would first require removing the
squatters
at 1600 Penn. Ave.), Mike's Office of Homeland Security will act as THE
one-stop shopping and command center charged with monitoring the
movements
of the doers of true evil. This Office will dispatch the forces of the
American Public (the vast majority of whom never elected a single damn
one
of the men who now "lead" us) to conquer evil wherever it may be, from
DC
to Wall Street to the Republic of Texas.

Let's face it, folks, it's not that these are simply bad men. It's just
that now, with all the recent revelations, it has become sadly evident
they
are just plain stupid ("Mr.'President,' we think Osama is going to
hijack
planes and crash them into buildings!" Bush: "Hey, I'm on vacation --
send
my aides a memo!"). When George W. promised last week to "securitize"
the
country, who among us felt really safe (or "safetized")? When General
Ashcroft (as the Democratic senators on the "oversight" panel
reverently
addressed him recently) spends our money on expensive drapes to cover
up
the statue of Lady Justice at the Justice Department because he does
note
want to see a stone breast exposed, who among us feels the cover-up at
Justice stops there? When Dick Cheney disappears for long periods of
time,
who among us doesn't
scream, "PAR-TY!!"

So the CIA knew this, and the FBI knew that. And they did nothing. But
THEY
will not be part of Bush's new cabinet department for HIS Office of
Homeland Security. No, of course not! Why have the two of them stinkin'
up
the room? And what do THEY have to do with making sure SICKOS DON'T
KILL
US??!! No, instead, W. is going to whip the Coast Guard and the
fruitfly
inspectors at Immigration into shape, those lazy bastards! No wonder
our
lives are still in jeopardy -- it's the out-of-control toll collectors
at
the Windsor Tunnel in Detroit! Thank God the FBI and the CIA will be
allowed to continue on their own separate paths, kicking the crap outta
each other, and answerable to no one. AS IT SHOULD BE!! I mean, where
would
we be today (and how many may have lived) had the FBI not siphoned off
the
resources of 200 full-time FBI agents who spent the better part of the
late
'90s on the Clinton-Lewinsky case -- investigating the national
security
crisis of how to get a stain out of a blue dress! What if they had been
doing their REAL job -- like investigating dip-**** flight training
schools
in Florida and Texas and SAVING PEOPLE’S LIVES?! What a waste of time!
And
still, to this day, not a single apology from any Republicans for that
costly misdirection of police protection. (You see, if I were to go
call
9-1-1 right now and send the cops off to some stupid non-crime scene, I
would be arrested. When the Republicans did it, they got the White
House.)

Well, enough carpin' about these losers. Nothing they do will prevent
the
next attack, sad to say. So, at the very least, I can offer to help
protect
our constitution, our civil liberties, and our precious right to watch
football, eat Tostitos, and NOT fall off the couch.

Plus, my Office of Homeland Security will give out prizes! All the Bush
Office is doing is giving out secret warrants to arrest Americans,
throw
them in secret prisons and
never charge them.

My color codes of various security levels will come in everything from
CODE
MAUVE to CODE PERIWINKLE. I will explain the day's "Crisis Situation"
and
give you "Your Mission." By turning to Mike's Office of Homeland
Security
you may not survive the next terrorist attack, but you will definitely
make
it to November 2, 2004. And wake up happy on November 3.

By what authority do I establish this Office? Well, I may not be the
President, but they've just told me I've sold more books this year than
Harry Potter -- and, dammit, that should bestow some sort of
superpowers on
me to protect the rest of us, right?

Thank you. Good night. And God Bless America Except Florida.

Michael Moore
Author
Filmmaker
Evildoer Doer

To check in at Mike's Office of Homeland Security or to get your copy
of
"Stupid White Men, click here:

http://www.michaelmoore.com

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I love this guy`s site lots of good reading there.

the sad thing is that its mostly true :'(

Actually, the sad thing is that most of it's pretty ignorant - yet a lot of Americans seem to think along his lines (or at least will happily follow those who do). Quite frankly, I think Bush did what he should have, being "alerted" to anything like a possible terrorist threat... last I knew, it wasn't actually his job to run the office, secure the country, and investigate any terrorist activity (while keeping tabs on exactly what the NSA, CIA and FBI are doing AND making sure they're all doing their job to his approvla). His job is simply to coordinate different top-level execs and trust that they will have the knowledge and forethought to do what's needed, and escalate what's necessary... to me, people complaining about Bush not stopping terrorist activities is like complaining that Bill Gates did nothing to stop a macro virus from being created. Yes, you can attribute it to him, but, when you get right down to it, he's really not the right person to blame - but he is the one people will focus on (mostly because they know his name and, quite frankly, many people are pre-disposed to hate things simply because someone influential tells them they should...)

Ok... I'll shuttup now... I know most of you will be thankful... ;) LOL

i was just saying its mostly true in reguards to their reaction after the fact...

draziw - I'm with you on this. Blaming Bush or another politicians is weak. Big talking show hosts, news anchors and other media types find it too easy to have this magical 20/20 hindsight.
I suppose the mobs are way too easy to suggest thought patterns to.

I'm sick of Michael Moore, he's a *****ing whiner. Really folks, if he is so smart and so above everyone else then why doesn't he run office and change all of it? I'll tell you why, cause all he can do is bitch, true he's quite good at writing but that shouldn't automatically make him correct, or right.

Blaming Pres. Bush for what happened on Sept. 11 is kind of like blaming Ronald McDonald when you get a bad cheeseburger.....neither of them are really in control.

End of rant.



edit-typo.

has anybody seen his movie which bowling for columbine???? i heard it was well received in the caan film festival and a lot of people were moved to tears.

he is a smart guy who isnt afraid to speak whats on his mind.

i believe he is from flint michigan originally. i love the awful truth always get a good laugh.

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Blaming Pres. Bush for what happened on Sept. 11 is kind of like blaming Ronald McDonald when you get a bad cheeseburger.....neither of them are really in control.

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No, but if you spill hot coffee in your lap, you will get a **** load of cash from good old Ronald.

So I guess the guys that flew airplanes into buildings and murdered thousands of people were working for Bush? And if certain uninformed people in our society didn't "Monday morning quarterback" the situation to death we would not have to deal with 31 flavors of color coded alerts and elevated alert status. I wish these people would just shutup and let the administration and military flush these SOBs out of their holes and terminate them with exterme prejudice. Reforms in the FBI and the CIA are needed to help nail these people, so be it. As far as Micheal Moore goes, I feel sorry for this misguided individual.

Also, what draziw and gold eagle said!

Bush probably had no real idea. Neither did the heads at the FBI, the CIA, the NSA, and the 30 some-odd other intelligence agencies in the US. The problem is that some peon intercepted the message, passed it along up the chain, and some middle-manager decided that not every message needs to be checked, being the arrogant, pissy man that he is, and dismissed it. That's the very real truth. Any information that WAS found was submitted up the chain of command, and summarily dismissed at some point. Bush probably never even heard anything.

It's been like this throughout history. Intelligence is gathered, suggestions are made based on intelligence, and then the information is passed up the chain-of-command. People new about the possiblity of an attack on Pearl Harbor -- it was reviewed and dismissed; FDR never even knew. Becuse of the inherant dishonesty in intelligence, i.e. false information, double agents, many in the intelligence community are very critical and skeptical.

So don't blame Bush. Don't blame the heads of the OSS groups. Blame the cocky guy in middle-management who thinks he's knows what's best, and allowed this gap in security. If the heads new, something would have been done.

I don't think Bush is at fault (in this particular case). I don't think the top brass at the FBI and CIA at fault. In fact, I don't think anyone in the government is at fault. Things happen. Along with those reports were hundreds of others about suspected terrorist plots that turned out to be nothing. The agency doesn't need to be restructured, it's fine. Things will always be missed, and you have to label so threats as not credible if you want to be sure that no panic is caused (Unfortunately, the government has stopped doing this)

here's my take on this.
No Bush did not have the hijackers on his payroll. No he did not tell them the targets. Or anything of that sort. BUT, the Govt let it happen, I'm not gonna just pin it on Bush(he's got a lot of handlers probably). And when the mainstream media started making parallels between Sep 11th and Pearl Harbor, they were right without knowing. Both adminstrations knew something was coming,it was not a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, and likewise neither was Sep 11th.