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U.S. Facing 'Catastrophic Attack'
NewsMax.com
Thursday, Feb. 1, 2001
National security experts Congress commissioned to examine America's vulnerabilities
in a changing, hostile world warn of a crippling assault upon its homeland within 25
years.
According to the Associated Press, the United States Commission on National
Security/21st Century, chaired by former Sens. Warren Rudman, R-N.H., and Gary Hart,
D-Colo., reported Wednesday that:
"Weapons proliferation [and] the persistence of international terrorism will end the
relative invulnerability of the U.S. homeland to catastrophic attack.
"A direct attack against American citizens on American soil is likely over the next
quarter century."
The 14-member panel listed as a close-second threat what it described as the
nation's inadequate scientific research and education.
The nation's entire education system, it said, is "in serious crisis."
It warned that this actually poses "a greater threat to U.S. national security ...
than any potential conventional war that we might imagine."
One commission member, Newt Gingrich, the former Republican speaker of the House of
Representatives, said:
"We put science, and science and math education, second ... because we believe it's
second only to the threat of a weapon of mass destruction [hitting] one of our cities."
The panel concluded the United States is not prepared adequately to meet either of
those challenges:
"The risk is not only death and destruction but also a demoralization that could
undermine [America's] global leadership.
"In the face of this threat, our nation has no coherent or integrated governmental
structures."
It offered these steps the United States should take:
• Assign the National Guard primary responsibility for domestic security and
reorganize, train and equip it to undertake that mission.
• Overhaul the Defense Department, where excessive laws have hobbled weapons
acquisition and the failure to privatize some support activities "wastes huge sums of
money."
• Reduce by up to 15 percent the staffs of the defense secretary, Joint Chiefs of
Staff and regional commands, where growth has "created mounting confusion and delay."
• Create an independent National Homeland Security Agency.
• Pattern it along the lines of the current Federal Emergency Management Agency.
• Assign it responsibility to protect American lives and infrastructure, such as the
highway system and information technology, and to plan, coordinate and integrate
domestic security activities.
• Reorganize the State Department, a "crippled institution that is starved for
resources by Congress" and weakened further by many of its core functions, such as
foreign assistance, being parceled out to other agencies.
• Double spending on scientific research and development over the next seven to
eight years.
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The libertarian therefore considers one of his prime educational
tasks is to spread the demystification and desanctification of the
State among its hapless subjects. His task is to demonstrate
repeatedly and in depth that not only the emperor but even the
"democratic" State has no clothes; that all governments subsist
by exploitive rule over the public; and that such rule is the reverse
of objective necessity. He strives to show that the existence of
taxation and the State necessarily sets up a class division between
the exploiting rulers and the exploited ruled. He seeks to show that
the task of the court intellectuals who have always supported the State
has ever been to weave mystification in order to induce the public to
accept State rule and that these intellectuals obtain, in return, a
share in the power and pelf extracted by the rulers from their deluded
subjects.
[[For a New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto, Murray N. Rothbard,
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