The Department of Homeland Security is moving its headquarters to a lunatic asylum. As Dave Barry is fond of saying, I am not making this up.
Under a plan projected to cost $3 billion, beginning in 2011 DHS will begin moving most of its 60 Washington, D.C.-based offices to a new building it will construct on the grounds of St. Elizabeths Hospital, an insane asylum still in operation in Washington.
St. Elizabeths Hospital holds the dubious distinction of being the first federally sponsored mental hospital in the country, according to its web site.
The U.S. Coast Guard will be the first element of the DHS to move into the new building in 2011, department Spokesman Larry Orluskie told United Press International.
The DHS’s headquarters functions will follow in 2013, and the other components slated for centralization will move in after that.
Orluskie said that the U.S. Secret Service, the biometric system for tracking foreign visitors called U.S.-VISIT, the new Domestic Nuclear Detection Office, the Office of the Inspector General, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services and the DHS Science and Technology Directorate will probably remain in their current locations. — United Press International
It somehow seems fitting that the Department of Homeland Security, based on a loony premise, should move into a loony bin.
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Patrick Wojahn
Mar 20, 2007
Not to discount the effect of the multiple mental illnesses that may have factored into the creation and operation of the Department of Homeland Security, but…
St. Elizabeths Hospital has for about the past 20 years been divided into a federal section, controlled by the federal government, and a District of Columbia section, owned and managed by the D.C. government. While the District of Columbia portion of the Hospital still houses and treats patients, the side owned by the feds has not been an active hospital since the split happened.
Two things, though, are particularly bad about this decision:
1. A portion of the District of Columbia that could used for economic development and revitalization, located in one of the poorest areas of the District, is going to be gated off and insular, so as to minimize the possibility for economic growth; and
2. This will prevent the public from having access to one of the best views in the District of Columbia.
See this article – - for more information.
Bill
Mar 20, 2007
Oh, that is just too good.
Of course we can hope that by 2011 the entire silly department will be gone, but that might be too much to hope for.
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