Thread: Homeland Security to move into loony bin

Homeland Security to move into loony bin
By Michael Hampton
Posted: March 20, 2007 12:34 pm


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.


http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2007/03 ... loony-bin/

Is this an ominous OMEN, lol?

Next thing you know, Jorge will move from the White House to the Mexican Embassy. Seems more than fitting, being as he does more for their citizens than he does for those who elected him.

DHS will begin moving most of its 60 Washington, D.C.-based offices on the grounds of St. Elizabeths Hospital, an insane asylum still in operation in Washington.

I am very pleased with their choice. It seems very fitting for DHS to be relocated on the same grounds as an "insane Asylum".

I would be more worried about the 168-acre Mental Realignment Facility that was built in Alaska just over a decade ago. Looks like they have a plan for dealing with those who strain at the federal leash.

Couldn't think of a better place for them. Are they going to be institutionalized now?

The Dept, of Loose Canons.