Food for thought: indulge our inner libertarian and compress/reduce DHS?

As a fellow moderate libertarian, I give you some food for thought from an interesting blog created by a History and PoliSci professor at U Delaware - Wilmington:

I do advocate the elimination of the cabinet level position for Homeland Security. This is one of my professional research areas, and I can tell you this: you do not meet the challenge of terrorism by creating the largest bureaucracy in American history. The TSA should not only be eliminated, we should destroy the records that suggested we were dumb enough to create it in the first place, lest our grandchildren think we are idiots.

I would add to Professor Newton's sentiment that "patchwork existence" (see some of my past posts) has amplified the problem that large federal bureaucracies can ause. Back to the fact that basic IT common infrastructure has not yet been applied to the entirety of DHS, again, amplifying the "lack of being on the same page." The integration of the component parts (the patches) into a whole should have been priority # 1 in our largest federal expansion in 35 years.
And nobody expected any hint of gestalt here, people, just basic commonality.

Indulge you inner libertarian some more at:
http://delawarelibertarian.blogspot.com/