Overheard on the Cluetrain e-mail list:
> > Gotta admit, the title “Office of Homeland Security” rings
> > a deep warning bell somewhere…
> > some elusive historical association, I think…:)
>
> It wasn’t the administration’s original choice, but they were
> unable to secure the trademark on “Fatherland.”
i keep thinking South Africa
Homeland: S. AFrica is the unsavory echo you hear.
“All political rights, including voting, held by an African were restricted to the designated homeland. The idea was that they would be citizens of the homeland, losing their citizenship in South Africa ”
See apartheid