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Your lack of respect for the military is what is pathetic.

Should I respect a multi-trillion-dollar military that could allow a highjacked plane to crash into the Pentagon with over an hour's notice? Then no one loses their job. That lack of accountability is what is pathetic. At least Arthur Anderson is going through hell for losing ONE tenth of what the US government loses every year.

You attacked the Coast Guard itself and showed no respect for the active duty Coast Guard FReepers and lurkers.

That's just paranoid nonsense. Go back and read what I wrote and see if you can find such an attack. I have consistently argued that the porosity of our maritime borders is due to a lack of accountability at the top. I said that I disagreed with a policy to use the USGS for protecting Naval ships, indicating that there searching container vessels is a higher priority. You and Semper911 argued that I should accept continued unconstitutional rulemaking without a declared war because the USGS does wonderful search and rescue operations. I repsonded that a number of services that the Coast Guard offers are superfluous compared to their first responsibility to this nation and could be esaily handled by private industry if they got out of it.

How is that attacking the Coast Guard?

"That's just paranoid nonsense. Go back and read what I wrote and see if you can find such an attack."

From your post 13
"I think we have higher priorities for the Coast Guard than to harass American boaters"
From your post 28
" But I have also seen them playing eco-cop without any knowledge of what they were doing, I know people who saw them getting their jollies boarding boats with nude babe sunbathers, I nearly got my boat bashed when they were conducting a "safety check" in choppy water just because they wanted to gawk at the antique yacht, and know that they tried to board a Federally documented vessel illegally (all 20 years ago)."

"Should I respect a multi-trillion-dollar military that could allow a highjacked plane to crash into the Pentagon with over an hour's notice?"

Now you just showed your true hate for the military.
You just literally spit on the graves of every service man and woman who died on 9/11 and since then.

"I said that I disagreed with a policy to use the USGS for protecting Naval ships, indicating that there searching container vessels is a higher priority."

That is the job of U.S. Customs and Port Authority

Coast Guard Auxiliary
District 11s, Division 2, Flotilla 27...reporting in.