# Sign up for the Citizen Corps! Rat out your commie atheist neighbors! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 16, 2002, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sign-up-for-the-citizen-corps-rat-out-your-commie-atheist-neighbors/119272 "2002-07-16T18:37:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Una\_Persson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/una_persson/32/346_2.png) [@Una\_Persson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Una_Persson)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2002, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sign-up-for-the-citizen-corps-rat-out-your-commie-atheist-neighbors/119272/61 "2002-07-21T16:13:49Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Bob Scene \* > **Anyone who isn’t afraid of this program should go to [this page](http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/ac/ahrpa/opa/pulse/epulse/pulse0204_home.htm) and see the official Homeland Security logo they have: An animated eye looking through a keyhole!** You know…I thought it was a hoax. That logo, I mean. But it’s not. Now that’s scary. ---
**Author:** ![andygirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a9adbd/32.png) [@andygirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andygirl)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2002, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sign-up-for-the-citizen-corps-rat-out-your-commie-atheist-neighbors/119272/62 "2002-07-21T17:32:24Z")
And in other news, their official theme song is “this is my private life” by Oingo Boingo. ---
**Author:** ![Karellen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/779978/32.png) [@Karellen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Karellen)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2002, 11:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sign-up-for-the-citizen-corps-rat-out-your-commie-atheist-neighbors/119272/63 "2002-07-22T11:01:16Z")
Now if we could get the new citizen-spooks to spy on corporate CEOs and dodgy accountants, then we might have something. ---
**Author:** ![Karellen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/779978/32.png) [@Karellen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Karellen)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2002, 11:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sign-up-for-the-citizen-corps-rat-out-your-commie-atheist-neighbors/119272/64 "2002-07-22T11:14:06Z")
On a side note: Around November when the bombs were dropping on Afghanistan and Big Daddy Bush had an 89% approval rating, people were already talking about his assured second term. Others were quick to point out that his father had a 79% approval rating during the Gulf War–and still lost to Clinton on “the economy, stupid.” This Citizen Corps idea is not going to help his chances, unless he’s looking for a distraction from the stock market and WorldCom. Bad move, Georgie! Come on, you can still pull this one off before mid-term elections! Come to your senses, get tough on corporations, and start defending private liberties. Get back over to the right already. You’ll get more respect as a populist conservative than as a fascist! I bet this is all Condee Rice’s idea. She’s one scary hawk. ---
**Author:** ![gex\_gex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/94ad74/32.png) [@gex\_gex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gex_gex)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2002, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sign-up-for-the-citizen-corps-rat-out-your-commie-atheist-neighbors/119272/65 "2002-07-22T13:48:39Z")
Just a note: there is little need to question the quality of [smh.com](http://smh.com) as a source - _The Sydney Morning Herald_ is a broadsheet, arguably Australia’s top newspaper and roughly comparable to the NY Times or Washington Post. ---
**Author:** ![TwistofFate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cdc98d/32.png) [@TwistofFate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwistofFate)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2002, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sign-up-for-the-citizen-corps-rat-out-your-commie-atheist-neighbors/119272/66 "2002-07-22T14:40:47Z")
I’m not scared of Bush. He is doing a presidents job and following his advisers. I’m scared shitless of that Ashcroft and Tom Ridge have in store. ---
**Author:** ![ramesh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d07c76/32.png) [@ramesh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ramesh)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2002, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sign-up-for-the-citizen-corps-rat-out-your-commie-atheist-neighbors/119272/67 "2002-07-26T03:03:27Z")
[http://www.iht.com/articles/65723.html](http://www.iht.com/articles/65723.html) Its not gone away. yet. And the mentioning of his position on gun control makes it even more stupefying. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sign-up-for-the-citizen-corps-rat-out-your-commie-atheist-neighbors/119272.md?page=3)