Kerry says Americans need to train to respond to terrorism

Kerry says Americans need to train to respond to terrorism

STEVEN K. PAULSON, Associated Press Writer
Sunday, August 8, 2004


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(08-08) 09:31 PDT TRINIDAD, Colo. (AP) --

Americans should do more to protect themselves against terrorism by setting up neighborhood watch groups, Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry said Sunday.

"If we do that to protect ourselves against vandals or a burglary, why would we not do it to protect ourselves against a terrorist?" Kerry asked during interviews with reporters aboard his campaign train.

Kerry, who was joined on the train by his running mate John Edwards, said that the current system of nationwide, color-coded alerts is confusing.

"We need a neighborhood watch kind of system so that we have a way to notify people, they know what they're supposed to do," Edwards said. "We shouldn't have millions of Americans, or hundreds of thousands, trying to figure out at 3 o'clock in the morning what they are supposed to do. They ought to know what they're supposed to do."

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Kerry treats everyone as responsible adults who are in charge of their OWN destinies.

I'm not sure how we can do that other than talking about it alot...


There is an AP story -- how many papers will pick it up?

That would be a great start to returning back to normal or as close as possible to normal.

He wants to recruit neighbors to spy on each other? And, no one is suspicious here?

Remember how sheep-like the Bush people looked when they calmly accepted Bush's plan to have people report on each other.

I expect that people are going to assume the best about this, because of course Bush.. I mean Kerry couldn't possibly propose anything that is ill intentioned, of course no one will abuse the system, and as long as you don't do anything wrong you have nothing to worry about... sigh.

Maybe someone here can point me to a clarification from the Kerry people on how he intends to guarantee people's right to privacy, with respect to this plan.