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IF YOU WANT
A PROMOTION, CAUSE A CATASTROPHE
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We have all heard that the Immigration and Naturalization
Service has just approved visas for the two dead
terrorists who piloted the planes that hit the towers
in New York on September 11. So what are we going
to do about it?
In the last half of the nineteenth century, the
death rate in American railroad accidents was horrendous.
A much higher percentage of Americans were killed
in trains smashing into each other than are killed
today in cars. And that was in an age when most
people never traveled at all.
Over a hundred and thirty years ago, Mark Twain
noticed that while America took train crashes for
granted, they almost never happened in France. He
quickly found the reason. In America, he said, nobody
was ever to blame. In France, if there was an accident,
somebody high up got fired and probably prosecuted.
To repeat, the result was that France almost never
had a train wreck.
To repeat, we have known this for over one hundred
and thirty years.
So on September 11, 2001, three thousand people
were killed in an attack of which there was not
the slightest hint from our numerous and expensive
security agencies.
Our response to September 11 has been to make huge
increases in security agency budgets. Many of the
people in charge were promoted.
By the way, one little bit of news was missed in
the rush of reports on the September 11 disaster.
It would have been front-page news if the attack
had not occurred.
The week of September 11, THE TOP CUBA ANALYST
FOR THE DEFENSE INTELLIGENCE AGENCY WAS ARRESTED
AS A SPY FOR CASTRO!!!
To my astonishment, they actually stopped the actual
spy's paycheck. Guess how many other people were
punished for this security catastrophe?
Nada, senor.
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No diplomatic person would just say, "I told you
so." No decent person would say that.
It's the sort of thing you depend on me to do.
So not only will I say it, I will rub it in by
reprinting what I wrote on September 11. Please
note that the above article, written six months
later, is exactly what I said would happen.
If you want the CIA to work, clean it out. If you
want the DIA to work, clean it out. If you want
the INS to work, clean it out. If you want programs
that work, clean out the universities where all
the policy disasters originate.
That is ALL we should be telling everybody in charge.
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AMERICA'S
BUREAUCRACIES GET DEADLIER EVERY DAY
September 11, 2001
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The CIA and FBI failed to give any indication that the
World Trade Center attack was being planned. So Congress
wants to increase the CIA and FBI budgets.
That is our response to everything, and it never works.
More money will not improve bad performance.
Entrenched bureaucrats run American security agencies.
It is the nature of that bureaucracy that is the problem.
But nobody dares face the problem with our security bureaucracy
because it is the same problem we have with others who
run the country.
If we faced it in intelligence, we might see other things
clearly as well. If we faced the truth about the CIA and
the FBI, our other failing bureaucracies would be in serious
trouble. Instead of pumping more and more money into Government
tuition grants, we might have to realize that our universities
are just entrenched bureaucracies, where academic bureaucrats
hold all the teaching and administrative jobs. No intellectual
need apply.
Our welfare bureaucracy, in fact our entire titanic education-welfare
establishment, would be under attack. And bureaucrats
with stars on their shoulders in the Pentagon might lose
some of their blind conservative worshippers.
Those who run our political bureaucracy might be questioned.
Worst of all, media bureaucrats might even be questioned.
But bureaucrats needn't panic. Nobody is going to let
any of that happen until things get truly desperate.
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UNTIL
WE FACE THE SIMPLE CAUSE, THE SITUATION WILL GET WORSE
September 11, 2001
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When the KGB briefly opened its files right after the
fall of the Soviet Union, those who looked at them were
shocked to discover the enormous extent of Soviet penetration
into the US Government since the 1930s. It was worse than
even McCarthy had thought!
Naturally, the liberal media bureaucracy minimized this
news. Respectable conservatives, who are chosen by the
same bureaucracy, hardly mentioned it either.
Nobody spent many resources looking at those files while
they were open. Neither the big media nor the US intelligence
community really wanted to open that can of worms. So
when the KGB closed its files, it was clear that only
a tiny percentage of their American operations had been
uncovered.
For the KGB and other enemy agencies, a static bureaucracy
like that in America's CIA and FBI is a sitting target.
Over a period of seventy years, it took little talent
to penetrate it wherever one wanted to. They got one Communist
sympathizer in, and he got others in. Any entrenched bureaucracy
will be as riddled with informers as an unguarded computer
is with viruses. These security failures are easily explained.
But it is an explanation no paid security expert would
dare make public.
So our security bureaucracy is not only inefficient.
It also is open to infiltration.
And please take note: these are only two of the MANY
obvious realities that those who work for our security
bureaucracy must overlook if they want to keep their jobs.
No security professional, in or out of the government,
is going to point out this obvious fundamental problem.
If he did, he would never get paid to do anything in that
area again.
No bureaucracy, be it security or media or education
or military, is going to fund a serious critic.
This is not a plot. It's just the obvious result of letting
bureaucracy go its own way.
We must stop promoting and listening to people because
they have degrees or years in office or the right crowd
approves of them. That is why they are allowed, even encouraged,
to fail.
Only a complete intellectual revolt against all entrenched
bureaucracies, a root-and-branch house cleaning, can deal
with the real problems America faces.
Make them give us real solutions or get rid of them.
Until we do that, things will get worse.
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