Webpage (see link below)

I must admit that I have an extremely low tolerance for much of the tinfoil hat crowd and their anti-militaristic fantasies. But after taking a look at this page I spotted a couple of things that I found to be rather irritating (and btw still not conspiracy level quality). One was the plural designation of 'Homelands' and the other was that ALL of Northcoms Generals Bios were included in Spanish...If you were ever in the military, most especially the Army or Air Force, then you know the extreme nature of some of the political correctness that has infiltrated our legions. I have even heard of one commander being ordered to remove a Texas flag from his desk because an airman complained that the flag was racist and represented the confederacy. The point being that it is most likely not the doing of the Generals, but why is our information being presented in Spanish? And even once in French?

Here is the link:
http://www.northcom.mil/leaders_html/index.html]http://www.northcom.mil/leaders_html/index.html

But there is a greater point in posting about Northcom. Although it makes sense that it exists as a connecting point for forces/asset mobilization, interagency comunication and defense structure management, NORAD etc. there seems to be a substantial potential for misuse of the command by political figures. There are some undertones of US, Canadian and Mexican coop evident on thier site, but in general things like Vision2020 seem to be positive (mainly because it doesn't involve Mexico):
http://www.northcom.mil/News/2007/072307.html]http://www.northcom.mil/News/2007/072307.html

I have heard of this exercise:
http://www.northcom.mil/News/2007/VS-08_fact_sheet.pdf

being mis-represented as some sort of government plan to practice marital law.

Why bring this up? I think it warrants a discussion about weaving military assets into corrupt and political institutions like Homeland Security. Disaster relief and preparedness are definitely topics which require a greater interagency communication... But, if one were to look at governmental failures in disaster response they actually don't point to a need for this level of integration. Katrina stands out as simple mismanagement. A cretin Gov and an imbicillic Mayor stuttered and hesitated and did nothing while their people suffered. Federal assets were on stand-by but not deployed in fear of power and boundry related issues...It should also be said that a good leader would have powered thru this and did what needed to be done...In any event, this disaster wasn't a result of miscommunication, it was inferioir leadership. Merging entities won't solve any of these problems, it will simply make ready a massive arsenal of tools for political misuse. Do we really want bureaucrats stumbling around crystal mountain? People with cosmopolitan views and global corp ties shoving big government cheese into the power generators at NORAD?! Imagine what it would take to "sanitize" (lock and seal actually) the mountain after Michael Chertoff touches it?!