Homeland security?

What does homeland security mean to me? I know the attacks of 9/11 were terrible and all that, but the response to it has been disproportionate in my opinion. I personally have never been assaulted by a terrorist, at least one of the standard definition. But I have dealt with monsters that repesent a greater threat to the average person than the critters that our brave leaders are pursuing. One of them is the constant threat of wildfire. After having lived through the Cedar Fire of 2003, to see the amount of money being spent on border fences and now a surveilance tower for the local shopping mall is sickening. How dare they waste that money on useless props!
Crest had over 300 homes burned to the ground in that fire and now the East County Fire Protection District is going to close for a lack of funds? What does it take to get some serious involvement here on the part of our government? Maybe a letter from "Fire" stating it's intention to burn us all out? I'm sick of our local Board of Supervisors rubber stamping development that dilutes our local resources and then to be told that there is nothing that can be done to save the fire department. I'm sick of Duncan "Duke of Virginia" Hunter ( tax cheat ) spending our childrens inheritance on that stupid assinine fence while his constituents burn!