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I promise you, if you call the police or FBI and report that your neighbor is suspicous because reads the Koran, they'll be polite to you, hang up the phone, and do nothing more about it but possibly get a chuckle out of the lunatic who just called.

I promise you, that's not how it works.

Paranoid snitches look for trouble. First they look for a sign: a Koran, an NRA sticker, whatever ticks them off.

Of course, they don't report it yet. They know the FBI would laugh them off. Instead, once they see your NRA sticker, they hone in on you. They watch for more "signs." Shouting, a rifle, late-night guests.

Then they exagerate what they've seen. A rifle becomes "carrying in all manner of assualt rifles and military weaponry at all hours." A Koran becomes "extremist anti-American Islamist propaganda ... I'm sure I heard them say 9/13..."

You see how it works?

Then they report their exagerated delusions, and you can sort if out from behind bars.

Then the problem is the jackass who lies and he is on the line for the consequences. You will never, ever, ever be able to control people who lie. The authorities will always have to check out any tip that seems credible. They are not equipped with magical powers of being able to know, without checking, what is a lie and what isn't. Just a little common sense is all that is required to understand that. I sense some real paranoia, but not of terrorism scares, but rather of law enforcement.

You know, I think you have a point on the honing in on someone. I have been very careful about how and with whom we discuss homeschooling for just the reasons you have mentioned in this post. Hell, with whom we discuss any of our political views with because of that.