Your furnace repair man sees your son's science project in the basement and reports that you are running a meth lab.
Your telephone repair man sees a book on your coffee table about the Muslim world and reports you as a terrorist threat.
They're planning on recruiting more snitches than the Stasi had in East Germany. Coming to ten cities in our fair land in August.
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Americas Gestapo in the making. It will take time but the foundation is there, all in the name of Homeland Security.
2 posted on
07/17/2002 9:11:19 AM PDT by
cynicom
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LAND OF THE FREE SNITCH HOME OF THE BRAVE FINK
3 posted on
07/17/2002 9:13:10 AM PDT by
freeeee
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A local talk show host was discussing this program, though he only did for a few minutes. He said that people who participate can get a 'sticker for their car'. His guest thought he was joking and making that up. He said he was not and was reading it off TIPS website.
I smell a job for Registered. What will this sticker look like?
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Your furnace repair man sees your son's science project in the basement and reports that you are running a meth lab.
Your telephone repair man sees a book on your coffee table about the Muslim world and reports you as a terrorist threat. If thats the case, you really dont have a lot to worry about. Youd have every repair man, utility worker and truck driver in the country calling in 10 12 tips a day, all completely useless that would go into a huge, database, so polluted with misinformation, it wouldnt be of use to anyone.
Owl_Eagle
Guns Before Butter.
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An effective TIPS program can be useful during this rash of child kidnappings. There just aren't enough cops to do it all.
8 posted on
07/17/2002 9:41:24 AM PDT by
Consort
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I'm a very active wargamer, and have gobs of military books in my home library. Add to that the Third National hanging in my home office (over my right shoulder as I type this), and I'm off to Gestapo HQ on an anonymous tip. Come on, you Bush supporters, defend the Saintly President's action this time! Take the dare! I suspect you're just digging your heads further into the sand.
9 posted on
07/17/2002 9:43:28 AM PDT by
warchild9
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We need to bring back Internment Camps!!!!
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Anyone who doesn't see a problem with this ask yourself - honestly, how would you feel about the exact same plan if the Gore administration had started it?
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Agreed...this is an issue that we and the DUmmies actually agree 100% on. My instincts tell me that can't be good for W...
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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
53 posted on
07/17/2002 10:32:22 AM PDT by
E Rocc
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Dubya and Ashcroft need to watch a few episodes of
Babylon 5Specifically, those involving the Night Watch
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Oh ! Oh beautiful..
Yet another bludgeon for angry divorcees and feuding neighbors to beat each other with..
Oh Joy!
103 posted on
07/17/2002 1:45:18 PM PDT by
Jhoffa_
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Said Homeland Security chief Tom Ridge: "The last thing we want is Americans spying on Americans. That's just not what the president is all about, and not what the TIPS program is all about." Here we have Ridge, in perhaps the most bold-faced lie I've seen in months, straight-faced telling us that 'we don't want Americans spying on Americans..."
UNBELIEVABLE! The COJONES of the guy to say that...
I get the feeling that if he were walking by a house that was engulfed in flames, and his friend said, "Look, Tom, that house is on fire!" Tom would glance over, and then, with a straight face, say, "Nah, that house isn't on fire..."
104 posted on
07/17/2002 2:05:20 PM PDT by
zoyd
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Where is the outrage from our so-called Conservative politicians?
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