DHS is on the job. We're Doomed!

has there ever been a more inept overpaid bureaucracy? Apparently the *only* thing they give a damn about is some Islamic terrorist blowing up a plane or driving on into a building and according to some investigative work the much vaunted (by the DHS) TSA ain't even very good at that.But as far as real threats go, the ones that cost real people lots of money, sometimes their livelihoods, well I guess it's hard to fulfill that romantic image of the Captain America hero when you're slaughtering medflies instead of torturing people that resemble AYrabs.
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original-dailyyonder

Homeland Security & 6-Legged Illegals
11/13/2007

In California, the dreaded Medfly had turned up again, and so have the apple moth and Mexican fruit fly, meaning quarantines and paralysis for many farmers. When it comes to insect "terrorists," who's minding the borders?
By Julie Ardery

It's enough to sting any farmer's heart with terror. Ceratitis capitata, the Mediterranean fruit fly, has reappeared in California. In September thirteen Medflies were trapped in a peach tree in the farming community of Dixon between San Francisco and Sacramento. Dixon (Solano County) lies north in the Central Valley, the state's bountiful agricultural plain. The dreaded Medfly, which can infest over 260 types of fruits and vegetables, hadn't been seen here since the days of Governor Jerry Brown, the early 1980s.

So why now? UC-Davis entomologist James Carey contends the Medfly has taken up residence in California; it was never actually eradicated, as so many in the state's $34 billion ag industry had hoped and believed. But many others -- including Solano County farmers and U.S. Rep. Dennis Cardoza of California's ag-heavy 18th Congressional District farther south -- say that lax inspections are to blame. In March of 2003, the duty of checking agricultural products entering the U.S. shifted from the US Department of Agriculture to the newly created Department of Homeland Security. According to Cardoza, who chairs the House Agriculture Subcommittee on Horticulture and Organic Agriculture, "The transfer has been a colossal mistake and a colossal waste of taxpayer money."

In October, less than a month after the Medfly discovery, the federal Government Accounting Office presented a report to Cardoza's subcommittee. Lisa Shames, director of natural resources and the environment for GAO, testified that since Customs and Border Protection had assumed responsibility for the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) "the mission has been compromised." The GAO reported multiple problems, including understaffing, faulty equipment, and failure on the part of the Department of Homeland Security to measure the efficacy of its ag inspection procedures. The upshot has been a decline in interceptions -- down by 43%.

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After "In Living Color" he had nary a part worth watching...