ANTI-TERRORISM FUNDS FROM HOMELAND SECURITY DEVALUE THREATS TO NYC AND D.C.

This is just nuts. Or maybe I should say, cynic that I am about the Bush administration, an example of another pure politics play by the Bush administration.

New York is a Democratic stronghold, and the District of Columbia likewise. Both were the focus of the attacks on September 11. They are the two most iconic cities in the United States. Yet the Department of Homeland Security has determined that they are not as threatened as Florida or Rhode Island. Yeah, sure, Rhode Island is top of mind for international terrorists.

Yet Homeland Security has assessed NYC as having "zero national monuments and icons" so they don't deserve much money.

Zero? The Statue of Liberty isn't a national icon? It's THE national icon, isn't it?

Well, no. Considering the current Republican-induced-and-manufactured immigration crisis, the Statue of Liberty is now an embarrassment, considering its Emma Lazarus' inscription -- "Give us your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to be free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shores; send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door."

Yeah, the Bushies would probably love to see that blown up. They only want the unwashed masses to come in under a guest worker program akin to indentured servitude.

Tags: Homeland Security, anti-terrorism funds, New York City, Washington, D.C.