What would you rename the Dept. of Homeland Security?

[meow2u3]

In a Kerry administration, I'd suggest they rename the Department of Homeland Security the Department of Domestic Defense (3-D or the DDD).

Any other suggestions?

[bryant69]

1. Why rename it?

I admit I find the name a little creepy, but frankly there are lots of other priorities.

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[alcuno]

24. It's the creepy term "homeland." I'm German and it reminds me of the

Fatherland. It just does. When in our history has the US been referred to as "the homeland?" Never.

[Hosnon]

31. Agree

That term freaks me out.

[liberal N proud]

35. Ditto!

[TrustingDog]

36. Cannon Fodder Land would be more appropriate with Bushit at the helm. n/t

[endnote]

2. Department of American Preparedness

[Jim Sagle]

3. Easy:

Department of Homefront Security.

[dogtag]

4. Go back to the original CIvil Defense Department

It's accurate and doesn't conjure up images of Adolph and the boys.

[freetobegay]

12. I couldn't agree more.

[demokatgurrl]

Agree 100%. I hate hate HATE the term "homeland security"-

It smacks too much of Father land for me.

[Southern Patriot]

17. Which begs the question...

Since when have we thought of our country as a "homeland" vs., say "motherland" or "fatherland."

The term "homeland" has too many echoes of racism and bigotry.

[DinahMoeHum]

21. Yeah. "Fatherland" = Nazis, "Motherland" = Communists

:evilfrown:

[Southern Patriot]

27. "Homeland" = homogenous tribal society nfm

nfm

[Dudley_DUright]

5. I like it!

Did I ever mention that my middle name is Dwayne? :silly:

[bain_sidhe]

6. I like Domestic Defense too. n/t

[randr]

7. Bring the troops home from Iraq

and remember we already have a National Guard!
Send the Homeland Security outfit out to pasture along with all the assholes that are fronting for it.

[hyphenate]

8. Homeland Security

always sounded like something the third reich would have named it.

I think that simply re-integrating the whole shebang into the FBI and the NSA is all we would need. Too many overtones of fascism and totalitarianism for me. Or NID--National Institute for Defense.

[PSU84]

9. A larger re-organization is needed.

I would put Border Patrol, Customs Service, Coast Guard, Immigration and Naturalization and a few other functions in a newly re-organized Department of the Interior.

I would put the Bureau of Land Management, National Park Service, Fish and Wildlife Service, and U.S. Forest Service (which does not belong in the Agriculture Dept.) along with a few others in a new cabinet level Department of Environment and Natural Resources.

[TheDonkey]

20. Very interesting, I like where you are going with that

Would have made greater sense than just randomly tacking on more bueracracy.

[evilqueen]

28. Good ideas

There is an organizational chart of executive cabinet positions. Several of them could stand reshuffling around because their functions often overlap.

[debatepro]

10. Department of Delusion and Fear.

[elfin]

11. CANT

Coordination Against National Terror - (or would that be CAN'T)

[Davis_X_Machina]

13. Heimatsicherheitshauptamt. n/t

[tomfodw]

14. The Department of No Tom Ridges

and no politically motivated "terror alerts" neither

[NNadir]

15. How about the Department of Being Eliminated.

The idea was a dumb one, as dumb as a Department of Peace.

Rightly the functions of this "Department" should belong to 1) The Department of Defense, and the Department of Justice. The ability to co-ordinate these two departments should rest with the President, assuming that there is a President (which technically there is not) and that the President is remotely competant.

Creating more departments simply makes for further diluted responsibility and reduced accountability. The trick is not to create more departments, it is to get the existing one to do their jobs. We will never be able to examine Bush as President - but as the person who has acted as if President - we have to recognize that the failure of 9/11 is due not to a failure of administrative structure, but from a failure of Bush to properly focus the Departments of State, Defense, and Justice on the right areas.

[Maiden England]

16. Another vote for department of the interior

and consolidating other agencies such as the EPA under its wing

[PurityOfEssence]

18. Big Brother

n/t

[leftofthedial]

19. Civil Defense

[goclark]

26. It worked all those years, let's go back to it. nt

[leftofthedial]

29. and get rid of the bushgang's two kinds of names

fascist-sounding "homeland" bullshit

and names that are actually euphemisms for the opposite of what they actually stand for

[liberalpragmatist]

38. When was there a dept. called "civil defense"?

n/t

[calmblueocean]

22. Department of Domestic Security

Simple. Just change one word, and remove the Nazi connotation.

[OrwellwasRight]

41. Domestic Security has my vote!

[cyr330]

23. How about. . .?

The Gestapo?

[troublemaker]

25. 'domestic security'

[Pithy Cherub]

30. Since inception,

it has not been particularly effective. Why not go to best-selling fiction for some great ideas for the * admin until the Kerry Inaugaration:

The Ministry of Magic: Tom 'Rainbow' Ridge is Cornelius Fudge

[liberalpragmatist]

32. "Intelligence" or "Civil Defense"

Reorganize, so only the relevant duties are under the wing of the dept. Also, move all the intelligence agencies including a domestic intelligence agency under this new dept's command.

The 9/11 commission called for a National Intelligence Director. Why not give these duties to the head of this new agency: Secretary of Intelligence.

Otherwise, Civil Defense makes sense.

[Renew Deal]

33. The Department of Overbudget and underfunded security ideas.

[fishface]

34. Dept of National Security..nt

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[ElsewheresDaughter]

37. National Security Department,,,,,,,duh

[Nicholas_J]

39. If you translate it into German

you get something rather close to:

Geheime Staatspolizei

Or Gestapo.

It actually means Homeland Security Police, which is about as CLose to the Department of Homeland Security as possible, I think

[bush equals idiot]

40. Defense Readiness.

Or, .... The D O U U W B.

Department Of Unfucking Up What Bush Did.