US planning to recruit one in 24 Americans as citizen spies

smh ^ | 7/15/2002 | Ritt Goldstein

[dennisw]

Sounds like a plan... LOL!

[weikel]

Dear god is this Soviet Russia or Nazi Germany?

[GaltMeister]

When they get tired of looking behind every tree for 'terrorists' they busybodies start looking at you. Come on down to the station with us, so you can explain your 'suspicious' behavior that has been reported .....

[mrsmith]

"the Terrorism Information and Prevention System - will be a nationwide program giving millions of American truckers, letter carriers, train conductors, ship captains, utility employees, and others a formal way to report suspicious terrorist activity. Operation TIPS, a project of the U.S. Department of Justice, will begin as a pilot program in 10 cities that will be selected."

LOL! We've got to find a way to stop these people from reporting terrorists!

[weikel]

Your son has informed us that you have criticized our glorious leader Bush. Come with us. Ve have vays of making you talk.

[Dog Gone]

Huh? Giving people a toll-free number to call to report possible terrorists is scary?

I guess we'd all be safer if law enforcement had unlisted numbers?

[Doctor Stochastic]

TIPS

[Draco]

First of all, clicking on this article's source's web site reveals the source as anti-US. Just read other articles there about the war on terrorism being a front for world domination. Nothing wrong with disagreeing with US policy. But plenty wrong with crack-pot theories about 9-11 being a cover for world domination. The recruiting of one in twenty-four Americans as domestic surveillance. A paranoid leftist's fantasy. TLBSHOW, are you one of those one in twenty-four? Yipes.

[Dialup Llama]

This might sound scary but there are actually 300 million informants ready to call the cops if some guy is spotted messing with a water treatment plant and the like.

[veronica]

Sounds like a plan... LOL!

Where do I sign up? ;)

[weikel]

Yes which means this plan is just a step towards establishing a gestapo system.

[meyer]

But... But.... they didn't ask me...

[evolved_rage]

I think they give a free brown shirt and ceremonial dagger to the first million informants.

[dennisw]

Pic of the day.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/715892/posts

[Betty Jo]

veronica, you can sign up at the above link.

Draco, this is a US Department of Justice program, not a left-wing plam.

[gunshy]

Welcome to the new Third Reich. Brought to you by a supposed conservative republican. Hail Bush. Maybe there really is something to the idea of an anti-christ.

[TLBSHOW]

http://www.drudgereport.com/

click above source for this is front page news at drudge

lol

[MinuteGal]

I already have my decoder ring and two-way wrist radio. Semper paratus! Sign me up!

Leni

[TLBSHOW]

what we need is the new leader to lead us all. His name is

Dan Flagg!