[sinkspur]

If I do the credit card processing and arbitrarily decide that you buy too much gunpowder, do you deserve to have your door kicked in as a result of this?

If I do the credit card processing, I can turn you in for gunpowder purchases NOW.

The hysteria on this site over what amounts to a Neighborhood Watch program is, well, hysterical.

[southern rock]

The hysteria on this site over what amounts to a Neighborhood Watch program is, well, hysterical.

Please show me, where in the constitution, the federal government is granted the power to run a federal neighborhood watch program.

[Arleigh]

The hysteria on this site over what amounts to a Neighborhood Watch program is, well, hysterical.

Yeah, and so was all the fuss over what amounted to a little oral sex between consenting adults in the Oval Office, or what amounted to a few pardons for nonviolent victims of the judicial system, or a few going-away gifts from admirers, or some campaign contributions from Asian-American businessmen....

[Jhoffa_]

The hysteria on this site over what amounts to a Neighborhood Watch program is, well, hysterical.

Could we at least agree that:

1) Your "rap sheet" or whatever should be cleared if you aren't "guilty" of whetever the tip pertained to?

2) If you make a false report (I mean in anger, not an honest mistake. That could happen to anyone) that you should have to take your lumps for it?

[droberts]

I don't think Neighborhood Watch can come into your house and snitch you up. TIPS puts a publicly acceptable face onto such behavior (similar to the FBI suggesting that they be allowed to torture people). Changes the public's perception and makes such behavior an acceptable practice believing it's a sign of patriotism. This loyalty to the state disguised as patriotism has been the hallmark of just about every despotic regime there has been.