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Time to Abolish DHS | Gene Healy | Cato Institute: Commentary: 'As a result of the "gold-rush pathology" encouraged by the grants — to offer just one example — the midsize town of Grand Forks, N.D., now "has more biochemical suits and gas masks than police officers to wear them."'
'DHS handouts also further a burgeoning culture of police paramilitarization, funding armored personnel carriers for such "unlikely terrorist targets" as the towns of Adrian, Mich., and Germantown, Tenn.'
'to justify the increased post-Sept. 11 spending, we "would have to deter, prevent, foil, or protect against 1,667 otherwise successful [attempted Times Square car bomb-type] attacks per year, or more than four per day."'
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