Arabs to Manage US Ports! What Next?

One for the record books:

U.S. Port Management
to be Ceded to Arab Company

America left in the dark again!...

…Mr. Chertoff, the director of Homeland Security assures us that if FEMA were kept
under the umbrella of Homeland Security its operation could be improved. Well, that’s
comforting considering that four years have transpired since 9/11 and it’s hard to see
what all those billions that flowed into Homeland Security have accomplished. And whether we are any better prepared to face the vagaries of the future with Mr. Chertoff and his coterie of incompetents at the helm…

Consider just one area, the Ports of America, that according to ex-president Clinton pose one of the biggest challenges to this country’s security. Currently, the fact remains that despite all of the money that has flowed into Homeland Security, we still do not have in place a means for protecting our ports. However, as ex-president Clinton had pointed out, if we had eliminated the tax break, we could have developed and installed technology that would have made it virtually impossible for terrorists to ship a bomb via a container into one of our vulnerable ports.

Right now, this possibility still exists even the projected costs are something like 3 billion dollars; just a drop in the bucket compared to the tax break, which as Clinton said, “none of the recipients needed…” . To think that we would have rejected the idea outright for an investment that represents less than 1% of what we have already committed for the conduct of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq boggles the mind…

…Now, to make things worse, it turns out the operation of the port will be ceded to a company owned by the Arab Emirates. To appreciate the irony of this, keep in mind that much of the money used by the hijackers of 9/11 moved through the banks of the Arab Emirates; secondly, it has been suspected that the Arab Emirates has supported terrorism.

Who made this God-awful decision? How does turning operation of six ports in the US including Baltimore, New York and Newark improve security for the United States? And who by the way is the organization charged with appointing them to that critical assignment? Virtually nothing is known about the composition of the Board that passed judgment on the new ownership. And one might legitimately question who gave them the right to make decisions for the American people that might not only prove flawed but potentially fatal. . If this the iteration of Globalism, it is clear that it is an exercise of power that takes the citizen out of the process and allows the president and his staff to decide policy unilaterally without debate or discussion.

Regrettably, Director of Homeland Security, Chertoff, has shown his true colors. He has failed to speak up or to allow public scrutiny of what such a take-over of our ports by a foreign organization. He has even failed to point out its potential failings! This would seem to confirm the suspicion that Chertoff is hardly more than a rubber stamp for self-serving administration policies which immediately negates his value as an objective party whose principal concern is the safety and protection of the citizenry of this country.

Les Aaron
Armchair Curmudgeon