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The TIPS program is REAL. It will be no different than the old Communist practice of having internal spies in every neighborhood.

Yeah, I know it's "real." So what? I read it. Sounds like a centralized 911 telephone system. Or calling up America's Most Wanted. Nothing I read about it scares me at all.

Seems to be a peeling away of levels of bureaucracy and training people to recognize potential terrorism. But so many want to believe it something else because a lunatic gave such an opinion about it.

And yes, I do know oppression can come in different guises. I don't see it here. The greatest recent invasion of rights came with the Bush/Demo/Repub rules on effectively abolishing medical and financial privacy, if the person who wants the info is a large corporation.

Ritt is a loony. See my post from a previous thread on the same story.

What? Four years of keeping lists of FReepers we're going to liquidate when the Revolution comes are all in vain? Dagnabbit...shoulda took up needlepoint instead...

The last thing I want is the furnace repair man coming into my house and seeing a book on the coffee table suggesting that the sitting President is a traitor (like one or two of the books I had on my coffee table when Clinton was President).

Think, everyone. There will one day be a Democrat in the Presidency. Do you want all of these new security powers to fall into the hands of a Democrat? Can you say the words "President Hillary Clinton"? That thought used to turn my stomach. Now it scares the sh!t out of me.