Posted on 07/17/2002 9:09:29 AM PDT by NoLongerLurker
If any aspect of this program had been mentioned while Clinton was President, every Freeper would be going apesh!t.
Just remember these three terrifying words: President Hillary Clinton. One day there will be a power-hungry Democrat President, and all of the police state type powers now being given to President Bush will be available to that person.
People who love freedom and liberty don't get involved in programs like TIPS and they are omitted from certain groups and certain government entities that have dubious intentions. As a result, the people who love freedom and liberty are the victims of these groups they are on the outside and not inside to exert influence and offer opposition. This stuff isn't going away just because we oppose it and will not be part of it. It will continue to get worse because we are not a part of it.
I don't know why everyone says it could only be a democratic president who would abuse these powers.
Just imagine what ol' 'Tricky Dick' Nixon and his buddy J. Edgar Hoover would have done with this.
soon have children informing on their parents Ever heard of the DARE program?Many people haven't, outside the name and the ostensible purpose. DARE discourages the programees....errr....students from discussing the program with grownups, despite the fact that it is legally considered psychiatric treatment, which by federal law requires positive parental consent.
-Eric
Then why the need for the new program?
There are only two distinct possiblilities:
1. TIPS grants no new powers to authorities, and is a useless program.
2. TIPS grants new powers to authorities, and these new powers can (and will) be abused.
So, which is it?
The Conservative Death Wish in a nutshell. No wonder some call us "wingnuts".
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."Citizen Corps". It gets worse. Did someone like Magaw or one of the other JBTs start dropping copies of a basic guide to fascism around DC, hoping that some concepts caught on?
-Eric
Third National? What is that?
Special Human Intelligence Team
And of course, all this is being brought to us by:
Dubya Is Proposing Special Human Intelligence Team
Bottom line, we know this is supported by:
Bush's Unquestioning Lickspittle Lunatics Special Human Intelligence Team...
You are too late. It starts next month in ten cities.
Welcome to the Bush/Ashcroft "Brave New World".
Maybe. Just from my experience, I spend hours upon hours each day plumbing a database thats accuracy is greater than 99.7% (which in the industry Im in is pretty exceptional). The .3% of pollution in the database makes it barely workable (and thus Owl_Eagle maintains gainful employment).
When I try to imagine a database populated by 4% of the citizens of the U.S. well, I cant imagine it being anything more than a garbled mass. I cant see any scenario where it would have any credibility. Certainly the agents of whatever intelligence agency would look up there own personal records and be surprised to see that theyve been turned in for trafficking body parts or communicating with aliens or whatever other bizarre reports that will populate this DB.
One request though, NLL, can we lay off the obscenity (President H*ll*ry Cl*nt*n) [/SHUDDER].
Owl_Eagle
Guns Before Butter.
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