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Tuesday February 04, 2003
09:21 AM
Is it me?
I distrust the "Homeland Security Department" mostly because "homeland" sounds far too close to "fatherland." Had the department been called "domestic securty," I don't think the image of jack-booted Nazis goosestepping in the capital would have come so quickly to mind.
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Sorta (Score:2)
I do think of 1984 ("HomeSec"), however.
Also, the proper name is Department of Homeland Security, which makes the name sound even worse: "DHS" was the initials of the high school where I grew up.
homeland security (Score:1)
Won't last forever (Score:2)
marketing (Score:2)
The name smells like a marketing move to me. It's supposed to make you feel all warm and fuzzy and patriotic and safe. I suppose they wanted to avoid anything that sounded like the various national security organizations from cold war era eastern european nations.
-matt
It's not just you (Score:2)
The name really bothers me, as well, for pretty much those exact same reasons. Even my hard-right friends who favor going into Iraq, and think Bush is just swell, find the whole "Homeland Security" thing making them itch.
--rjray