Posted on 07/17/2002 9:09:29 AM PDT by NoLongerLurker
Operation TIPS, administered by the U.S. Department of Justice and developed in partnership with several other federal agencies, is one of the five component programs of the Citizen Corps. Operation TIPS will be a national system for reporting suspicious, and potentially terrorist-related activity. The program will involve the millions of American workers who, in the daily course of their work, are in a unique position to see potentially unusual or suspicious activity in public places.
The Department of Justice is discussing participation with several industry groups whose workers are ideally suited to help in the anti-terrorism effort because their routines allow them to recognize unusual events and have expressed a desire for a mechanism to report these events to authorities.
These workers will use their common sense and knowledge of their work environment to identify suspicious or unusual activity. This program offers a way for these workers to report what they see in public areas and along transportation routes.
All it will take to volunteer is a telephone or access to the Internet as tips can be reported on the toll-free hotline or online. Information received will be entered into the national database and referred electronically to a point of contact in each state as appropriate. This is not a national 911 center, and callers are expected to dial 911 for emergency local response.
Industries that are interested in participating in this program will be given printed guidance material, flyers and brochures, about the program and how to contact the Operation TIPS reporting center. This information can be distributed to workers or posted in common work areas. Operation TIPS is scheduled to be launched in late summer or early fall 2002. The goal of the program is to establish a reliable and comprehensive national system for reporting suspicious, and potentially terrorist-related, activity. By establishing one central reporting center, information from several different industries can be maintained in a single database. Operation TIPS will be phased in across the country to enable the system to build its capacity to receive an increasing volume of tips.
Please do tell us the day we'll hear this:
"My fellow Americans, I thank you for your help and support in the War on Terrorism. Since we have won that war, and terrorism is no longer a danger, we are ending the TIPS program and other 'war powers' we have used."
Maybe when Hell freezes over?
Please provide a list for us of "temporary" things the government has instituted?
Here are a 2 "Temporary" things they have instituted that are still with us today.
1) A tax on your phone for the purpose of funding the Spanish-American War
2) Income Tax Withholding
The list is virtually endless and far too time consuming to list here. It is going to be a lot easier for you to list the "temporary" things that were actually "temporary".
I think we are all aware of who not to trust. YOU.
Damn fingers.
Are you saying that without the encouragement of the government anyone would not report a child in possible danger? If so, they are not decent people and under no circumstances should they be given the legitmacy of being snitches on the rest of us.
Is there anyone on this site that would not report if they thought a child was in danger or was a kidnapped child? I pray to God not.
Your right, Phantom. Whatever happend to "The land of the Brave and the Free?"
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