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.
Interstate Commerce Clause.
Why not, they try to use it to justify virtually everything else they do. Including making rape a federal criminal act whereas the victim could sue in federal court for damages.
Luckily the SC even saw how outrageous that was.
Specifically, those involving the Night Watch
Boy, you really are a sucker.
Please name for us ANY government program that is not addictive, and is efficient and cost effective.
And I'm still waiting for your list of government programs that were instituted as temporary and actually were temporary.
Someone already said rationing. And so far, that is the only one I can think of as well.
Owl_Eagle
”Guns Before Butter.”
"Guns before butter" - an interesting tag line! It is one of the most famous phrases to emerge from Nazi Germany, for sure.
" ...That was in 1932. Throughout the years we find him connected with the rearmament of the German Armed Forces. On 16th March, 1935, it was Hess who signed the decree for the introduction of compulsory military service. On 11th October, 1936, in a speech that he made, he took up Goering's cry of "Guns before Butter," when he said:
"We are prepared in the future, too, if need be, at times to eat a little less fat, a little less pork, a few eggs, since we know that this little sacrifice is a sacrifice on the altar of the freedom of our people. We know that the foreign exchange which we thereby save, expedites the output of armaments."
The phrase still holds good to-day -- guns instead of butter."
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=%22Guns+Before+Butter%22+nazi+germany
And to even try and draw an analogy between the two is to make a stretch that is beyond anything worth debating.
Jimer to English Translation: we must fight to seize the stick of big government and use it toward "conservative" ends, rather than advocate the true conservative ideal of less government.
Correct the above to read: "......we must fight to seize the stick of [the currently] big government and use it toward "conservative" ends, rather than advocate the true conservative ideal of such as less government [, among others].
And how will TIPS accomplish your stated goal of less government?
Disingenuously pretending that one system of anomnymously reporting infamous activity to unknown authorities differs from another, simply because you are in mid rant, is foolish. Especially when it was politely pointed out that one of the systems was right under your nose all along, and you don't seem to mind.
Vicariously insulting a talented potential ally is the epitome of stupid.
I feel sorry for any of your dependants. If this is your idea if low profile, reasonable discussion, you will be one of TIPS first victims, and your family will suffer for it.
I think Rush touched on this today. Something about using TIPS or dramatically expanding government by the massive hiring of more law enforcers and other civil servants/bureaucrats.
I thought you were stating that my having no problem with the abuse button should lead me to have no problem with TIPS.
Obviously, that is not what you were saying.
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