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...going to be appropriated by the President. In his address Bush would challenge each American to donate 4,000 hours of community service and would announce a new agency called U.S.A. Freedom Corps to marshal the effort. Freedom Corps builds on existing volunteer programs and creates new ones: the Citizen Corps, a kind of national Neighborhood Watch; and the Medical Reserve Corps, an army of first responders for terror attacks and other national emergencies...
...expand it by spending an additional $230 million for 25,000 more volunteers. And Bush wants $10 million for teaching support programs, $50 million to expand Senior Corps (foster grandparents and companions) and $40 million over five years to double the Peace Corps (especially in Islamic countries). The Citizen Corps will tap the naturally nosy--doormen, truckers, postmen--to report anything that looks suspicious to a new terrorist hot line. Unfurling Freedom Corps allows the President to bring the war home, to dress the entire country in green fatigues to "fight evil with acts of goodness...
...only avenue available. Heymann suggests conducting “emergency searches” and inducing suspects to reveal information over tapped lines. And he would prevent the “ticking bomb” scenario in the first place by allowing “freer electronic surveillance of non-citizen visitors who we have reason to suspect are terrorists”—something he says he wouldn’t have supported before Sept...
...seeking himself (and taking his mother's maiden name) after his parents' estrangement. In his most recent incarnation, at the hearing, he was John Lindh--that's his given surname, now insisted upon by his image-conscious legal team. This version of the 20-year-old is a U.S. citizen who "loves America," as his dad insists, but who got messed up with Taliban brainwashers and then U.S. soldiers who denied him a lawyer for weeks...
...Citizen Corps that responds most directly to post-9/11 anxieties and needs. Citizen Corps is geared toward homeland security, allowing volunteers to help police departments, establish emergency medical procedures and ramp up neighborhood watch programs...