W. Takes Fidel's Comments to Heart, Plays FDR Via NY Transfer News * All the News That Doesn't Fit Georgie spent his Saturday talking touch at West Point, and on the radio, and -- perhaps taking to heart Fidel's unflattering comparison of him with Franklin Roosevelt -- he's decided to lift an idea from FDR and inaugurate a Volunteer Patriot Corps. Soon we'll see senior citizens with nothing better to do snooping on their neighbors and reporting their 'suspicious' activities to the Thought Police so that Scummy's newly empowered FBI on Steroids can take "pre-emptive action." BBC Online - June 1, 2002 http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/americas/newsid_2020000/2020813.stm Saturday, 1 June, 2002, 16:58 GMT 17:58 UK Bush says US will strike first US President George W Bush has emphasised his commitment to taking pre-emptive action against potential threats - striking before suspected terrorists have the chance to do so themselves. In an address to graduating army officers at West Point, America's top military school, Mr Bush declared that if the United States waited for threats fully to materialise, it would have waited too long. He also reiterated his warning to Americans to be on their guard against terrorist attacks. He said security required the modernisation of the military, and of "We cannot defend America and our friends by hoping for the best," said the US leader. "In the world we have entered, the only path to safety is the path of action, and this nation will act." The speech did not specifically name the Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein as a target, although Mr Bush has repeatedly said he wants him removed from power. Mr Bush also said the twin Cold War strategies of deterrence and containment would not be enough to win America's war on terror. Volunteer programme On Saturday, the US president also proposed an unprecedented expansion of volunteer programmes. These include the new Citizen Corps to help fight terrorism at the local level, an expanded Peace Corps for overseas service, and a Senior Corps for older Americans - in a bid to tap into the wave of patriotism generated by the 11 September strikes. "It's graduation time on many college campuses," Mr Bush said in his weekly radio address. "Members of my administration are travelling around the country to challenge the class of 2002 to make serving their neighbour and their nation a central part of their lives." * AFP via Times of India - June 1, 2002 http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow.asp?art_Id=11683201 Bush urges Americans to volunteer their time WASHINGTON: In his weekly radio address on Saturday, President George W. Bush urged Americans to volunteer their time at home and abroad in service to their country. "Whatever your talent, whatever your background, each of you can do something," Bush said in the speech, aired shortly after he delivered a graduation address at the US Military Academy at West Point, New York. Stating that Americans "have always believed in an ethic of service," Bush said that "government does not create this idealism, but we can do a better job of supporting and encouraging an ethic of service in America." He urged Congress to pass recently-introduced bills expanding AmeriCorps and Senior Corps, two government-sponsored domestic volunteer programmes. And he said he was expanding the 1960s era Peace Corps program that sends young Americans abroad on service projects, aiming to double the number of its volunteers over the next five years "and asking it to expand its efforts to foster education and development in the Islamic world." "We will fight resentment and hatred with hope and progress," Bush said. ================================================================= NY Transfer News Collective * A Service of Blythe Systems Since 1985 - Information for the Rest of Us 339 Lafayette St., New York, NY 10012 http://www.blythe.org e-mail: nyt@blythe.org ================================================================= nytcari-06.02.02-06:02:45-24173