Security program based on paranoia

I have just learned that the Richard Stockton College of New Jersey is poised to become a national center for homeland-security education and training. This is yet another squandering of public money by the Bush regime to create more fear and paranoia. If they were truly concerned with national security, they would stop wasting the billions of dollars spent on weapons and killing and provide every American with health insurance no different from what the politicians enjoy. Health care is real security. My proposal for making America safe is to force our government to recognize the International Court of Justice at the Hague. This would make President Bush accountable for respecting and complying with international law. America must insist that men like Bush are not immune from international law. When lies are told to justify a war resulting in the deaths of several thousand American soldiers and thousands of innocent Iraqis, and torture is allowed in the name of America, good people cry out for Bush and his regime to be brought to justice in the world court. Sooner or later, Bush will have to answer for his actions. In the meantime, Stockton will lose something important by its complicity in this homeland-security sham. Academic credibility is in the balance. Steven Fenichel, Ocean City - Published in the Atlantic City Press, October 16, 2006