George W's "Willie Horton"

In 1988, the President's father, George H. W. Bush's campaign destroyed democrat Michael Dukakis with ads attacking his prison furlough program that allowed convicts such as "first time murderer", Willie Horton to leave prison for the weekend and roam unsupervised wherever they pleased. And of course this unwise program led to some convicts like Horton and others commiting a number of violent crimes while out on their weekend furlough. It was an unwise notion to allow known violent persons such as murderers and rapists to walk the streets insupervised. Of course, some didn't return to the prison. Some simply walked away while on their "weekend furlough".

In 2004, the current President Bush's campaign won a narrow 51% majority largely based on "homeland" security concerns of voters. Yet this "homeland security" system, entirely managed by the Bush administration allows dangerous persons to simply walk American streets just like the failed prison furlough program of Michael Dukakis's Massachusetts.

On April 25, Gregory Depres, a bizarre appearing apparent Canadian drifter arrived at United States border crossing at Calais, Maine with a wide arsenial of weapons including a bloody chainsaw, homemade sword, hatchet, knife and brass knuckles. The "homeland security" program of the Bush Administration failed to act on obvious signs that a horrible crime was commited, and merely confiscated the bloody chainsaw and other dangerous weapons, and only fingerprinted Depres, but allowed him entry into the U.S.

Two days later in Massachusetts, after the broken "homeland security" system of the Bush Administration allowed Depres entry into America, a policeman in a highway patrol car noticed this drifter walking down a highway in what appeared to be a red and brown blood stained shirt. Unlike the Bush "homeland security" system, this policeman immediately held Depres while doing a background check on this drifter.

Because of this policeman, Depres is now held on murder charges, and is awaiting extradition to Minto, New Brunswick, Canada , where the chainsaw was used in the decapitation murder of country singer Frederick Fulton, whose head was found in pillow case. And the singer's common-law wife was found stabbed to death, probably by one of the weapons the Bush Administation "homeland security" system allowed Depres to carry to the American border without his arrest or a background check on this very dangerous chainsaw murderer.

The Bush Administration will have the American public believe they can sleep safely at night, that they have American "homeland security" firmly managed. Yet dangerous people like Depres, simply walk, drive, fly, or otherwise travel into the U.S. each day. Just this week in Lodi, California, a father and son of Pakistani descent, were arrested after some evidence of Al Qaeda training by the son surfaced, including the possibility of planned terrorist attacks on crowded California hospitals or grocery stores. These Al Qaeda associated persons, were also allowed to roam freely in the U.S. until just this week. And many more cases exist of dangerous persons like this who were allowed entry into the United States by agents of the Bush Administration's mismanaged "homeland security" system.

And in just one six month internal investigation, 146 persons associated with the Bush Administration's "homeland security" system were arrested for various levels of theft and corruption. And over $18 million dollars was found to have been misspent, unaccounted for, or simply stolen.

Just like the flawed prison furlough system in Michael Dukakis's Massachusetts, Bush's mismanaged "homeland security" system allows dangerous persons such chainsaw murderers, Al Qaeda trained fighters, and other absurdly dangerous persons regular entry into the United States to roam American streets looking for their next crime or terrorrist plot. In this age of computers, a dangerous murderer like Depres should have been stopped at the border checkpoint with a simple computer check for wanted criminals and outstanding arrest warrants. And a tighter system to prevent so much fraud, theft and corruption within the "homeland security" system, as well as tighter controls to keep Al Qaeda figures out of America is greatly needed.

I'm not going to sleep any better tonight. The ineptness of the Bush Administration is very evident in his deeply flawed "homeland security" system, where chainsaw murderers and Al Qaeda trained fighters are allowed easy entry into America and roam our streets waiting to commit new outrageous crimes against Americans.