Abolish it! I would like to remove every agency from government power and place it into a status of "community service". heheheh, that's what they call these things already, but they're actually "prey on the people" schemes as long as the government controls them.
Now that Elizabeth Smart is back home, her family is getting a lot of air time. One one hand, they are giving credit to the people and their daughter for the initial break in the search. On the other hand, her aunt and dad are pushing this Amber Alert federal legislation. Amber Alert was a great idea and design. Why on earth are these people wanting to hand that over to government control?!?!? Once the government owns it, it will be much less effective, bogged down by beaurocratic policies, the original founders lose every last shred of control they had over the program, and the government gets to claim credit for each person they rescue while who knows how many got excluded from the Amber Alert.
They also want someone in the Department of Justice to be dictating the policies, including which missing persons get to be the subjects of the Amber Alerts.
I really wish I had known about it and gotten in on the Amber Alert thing when it was a new idea. I would have loved to have contributed towards making it a reality... safe from government domination.
The Utah FBI is on TV too trying to slurp up a little glory for themselves when they didn't do jack shit towards finding her. It was a bus driver and a (c)itizen (o)n (p)atrol who found her. The FBI in Utah ought to be hiding in shame! They were 2 veiled females and 1 bearded male wearing white robes everywhere they went, and people knew that. They spent months within 15-30 miles of Elizabeth's house. They were homeless... almost always out in plain sight. The FBI are a bunch of retards. I know they were in California for a while, but remember the F in FBI, Federal. Federal sit-on-their-ass-&-collect-a-paycheck is what they are.
David
Kennesaw, GA
[ This Message was edited by: JDavid on 2003-03-13 16:42 ]