Word: patrioteers
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...worth looking at what happened the night the government moved Padilla, because it's part of a larger change in American society since Sept. 11. Six weeks after the World Trade Center fell, Congress passed the U.S.A. Patriot Act, which was designed "[t]o deter and punish terrorist acts in the United States and around the world, to enhance law enforcement investigatory tools, and for other purposes." The legislation gave Bush and Attorney General John Ashcroft a license to expand the scope of their authority, and they have used their new powers, plus a few old ones, to detain more...
...made public last week at the bipartisan behest of the Senate Judiciary Committee, worried about the perceived excesses of Bush's antiterror campaign. The court ruled that the Justice Department and FBI could not take advantage of several key liberalizations of FISA included in the U.S.A. Patriot Act, passed after the Sept. 11 attacks. Attorney General John Ashcroft wanted criminal prosecutors and counterintelligence agents to share information in a coordinated manner, and Congress agreed by legalizing such information sharing in the act; but the court now insists that Justice continue to observe the pre-Sept. 11 FISA restrictions...
...Lucky for you, "American history has never been this much fun!" So promises the cover of "U.S. History for Dummies." The famous how-to series has issued a number of patriotic titles over the last year, devoted to politics, our nation's capital, the Civil War and a new volume covering presidents from George Washington to George W. Bush. They allow the prospective patriot to bone up on the grand saga of the American ideals of freedom and equality, while at the same time keeping track of our original sins through chapter titles such as "fighting the Indians - again...
...Sarah Vowell's newest book, "The Partly Cloudy Patriot," will be published in September
Suddenly, and still, everyone's a patriot. In New York's West Village for the first time in recent memory American flags outnumber the rainbow-colored gay pride banners. In Washington, God and country have seldom been so part of the national discourse, as seemingly every member of Congress wants to go on record as supporting God, country, motherhood, puppies and all other American icons. And Fourth of July barbecues suddenly seem like civic duty; a majority of Americans polled say they will continue to celebrate, undeterred by any terror threat...