Posit: The Bedrock of National Security is Economic Security.

Without economic security, all other forms cease to operate. They cannot continue, unless the government starts nationalizing defense industries and other corporations, a decidedly dead-end solution.

When one looks around and takes stock, it is not hyperbolic to suggest that we are in a crisis that is making a very destructive strike at our economic security. That said, the warnings have been issued to us and our government for years. None of this is a complete surprise. Even people in the maladministration have been warning of this calamity since 2001, to no audience. In the meantime, we have formed a massive bureaucracy called The Department of Homeland Security that costs untold billions to maintain and seems to have no other purpose than to harass, detain and jail citizens, tourists and little brown folks, with little or no rhyme or reason.

They have, once again, fucked the dog, this time in Texas, as they redefine the word "useless" when it comes to disaster management, and they certainly have done nothing in the defense of economic security. They sure loves them some abrogated privacy, however. And seized laptops. They love them seized laptops.

Conclusion: this maladministration and its designees, who are tasked to protect our security, have failed. Utterly. Completely. They have chosen to sell us out in the now-dimming hope of a cushy corporate job at the end of their tenure and in service to an old and hoary ideology. Their 13 pieces of silver are just that meager.

But when will enough be enough? When will The American People shake off their collective torpor and rise up? Not in violence, but definitely in one voice, in righteous anger?

Where is the howling? The incessant din of raised voices? The palpable anger at this malfeasance?

Why are we just taking this on the chin?