The Coast Guard, Immigration and Naturalization service, Customs Service, and the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service were combined to create The Department of Homeland Security in order to protect the nation from terrorism in 2002.The continuing threat of international terrorism requires that states and localities play a greater role in securing transit ports and places that are strategic targets. Also the random and unpredictability of terrorist attack as opposed to formal military attack means that national authorities cannot be stationed everywhere and thus resources in place must accept the role of first responders in the event of an attack. Mayors of some cities and some governors, complain that the national government has been slow to provide and deliver the funding necessary for these expanded responsibilities. Furthermore, some mayors refuse to cooperate with the department of Homeland Security. Some inhibit cooperation out of ideological objections such as objections to department methodologies or objections to national immigration policies as in Portland, Oregon.According to the Posse Comitatus Act, Federal Military personnel cannot be coerced into actions by local authorities. The military does not normally play any role in domestic issues. While national authority may use the military in domestic issues such as disaster relief or rescue operations, such humanitarian efforts form the bulk of the military’s role in domestic issues. It was state governor’s use of the national guard that elicited Eisenhower’s nationalization of units used as local security to prohibit integration. Activation placed those state militia units into the national command structure so that the posse commitatus act would prevent their use in local affairs. Also this placed them in a position where, as commander in chief, Eisenhower could order them to stand down. This set the precedent for later use of regular army paratroopers to provide security for integrating students to arrive at and attend school safe from vigilante crowds. This use of national military personnel to achieve domestic goals set the precedent for the later use of the military in support of the drug enforcement agency in crime prevention in drug smuggling interdiction. Although this was primarily the Coast Guard, the traditional non-involvement of the military in civilian affairs was at a functional end. Under the provision to provide for the common defense, and with surreptitious attacks against this country on our own soil, any use of the military to make the citizens of this country secure in their persons should be legitimate. The fourth amendment provides for citizens to be secure in their in their persons and homes from our government, it should be a corollary of the fourth amendment that the government be required to use any means at its disposal that our persons and homes be secure from the actions of foreign governments and organizations.

Taxation with representation

The reason that the Gods of ancient myth practices incest was not to glorify it; but to give object lessons in family unity, to demonstrate the inevitable evil results.     Taxes must be kept pleasing to the populace in order to maintain a contented payment motivation.  In respect to present-day taxes the populace would like a “soak the rich” program and steps to that effect would appease them, until they learn the price of negative economic growth.  Taxes must not be too heavy.  Solomon extracted heavy taxes in order to raise Israel to its highest pinnacle of prominence.  However, when his successor Rehoboam chose to continue this practice at an accelerated pace, the revolt of the ten northern tribes was the subsequent result.  Also, taxes must be adequate, as the Sumerian says, “The city that is weak in armaments, the enemy will not be driven from its gates.”  Without taxes Solomon would not have had the money to but the cedars f, gold and silver from Hiram with which to build the temple, palace, and other architectural ornations for the land and more, especially the pride of Israel.  Herod the Great (circa 6 b.c.) in later times would never have rebuilt the temple or the amphitheaters and the other cultural retreats for the Israeli populace that his reign was noted for, without tax money, but he kept the Israeli populace satisfied enough to forestall revolt for half a century.    TAX GROWTH, NOT CAPITAL!