Letter: Domestic homeland security an illusion

Thursday, Oct. 27, 2005 | 8:34 a.m.

I awoke from a dream this morning. In it, I was happy, safe and secure. My ambitions had materialized after retiring from a lifelong successful career.

I lived where my country's leaders were honorable and respected by all, including foreign allies. They could not be swayed into spending hundreds of billions of our tax dollars on an undeclared war based on lies that were propagated with malice on his countrymen by none other than the chief executive.

Those public assets were instead rightfully and honorably spent on improving our children's school systems, dignity of the homeless, the health and security of the elderly in our own land. There were no atrocious windfall profits created for certain entire industries and their stockholders by this blind march into endless oblivion created by our "leaders" under the guise of "necessity."

And local politicians didn't bend over to the almighty dollar, allowing shady deals with developers and construction magnates to overpopulate a heavenly valley like ours with more buildings, instead of just doing what's right by saying, "We just don't have the water to supply more homes, so we're obliging our residents' wishes by denying your application to rezone and for building permits to continue building more."

But then ... it was only a dream ... wasn't it?

Frank Musaraca

Henderson