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antiwar.com ^ | July 19, 2002 | Harry Browne

[eshu]

This is gonna be even better than the War on Drugs!

[tallhappy]

Anyone need any more evidence for Harry Browne's utter irrelevance and idiocy?

Ron Paul is no better.

[GingisK]

That dang Harry is right right right!

[Steve Eisenberg]

If this is the best argument against TIPS, then I might have to change my mind and be for it. antiwar.com?

[Lexington Green]

Your thoughts sound suspicious..... what shall a good American do if he finds you suspicious?

[the gillman@blacklagoon.com]

Are you serious?

Ron Paul is the only member of congress that I wouldn't want to see hanged. And Harry is absolutely right. But you're innocent so you have nothing to worry about.

[jart]

dear tall happy

I sincerely hope that you are one of the first to be incarcarated as a result of tips.
The Fed Gov is out of control and has not been operating
under the constitution or the bill of rights for some time now, in fact since i was born in 1955, at least.

by the way- i have not paid my income taxes for the last 4 years, i will not voluntarily support an illegal, unconstitutional government.

for those of you who want to report me to tips
my name is dan kardas
my adress is 74 irving street , new haven ct.

molon labe
long live the fighters
socialism=fascism=slavery

[dighton]

Poor Harry. Every night for years he's dreaded the knock of the gestapo, but the gestapo doesn't even know he exists.

[eshu]

Ron Paul is no better.

Good point! Ron Paul has had his day in the sun, trying to convince people that the Constitution is still relevant, but this is a new era, we needn't be bound by the hidebound strictures of the past!

All of those fuddy-duddies constutuionalist fanatics who can't "get with it" and realize that the 1st, 2nd, 4th & 6th amendments are irrelevant to today's modern world really should either come over to our side or else gracefully go out to pasture and let us get on with the business of ruling the people.

Let's Roll!

[Uncle Miltie]

Quick! Ban 911 Calls! Harry Brown objects to citizens reporting suspicious activity by potential enemy agents.

[Steve Eisenberg]

Your thoughts sound suspicious..... what shall a good American do if he finds you suspicious?

The problem is not that the feds waste lots of time investigating and locking up innocent nonentities who have an Islamofascist book or two on the shelf. The problem is that they are so obsessed with going after easy convictions that they don't investigate some really serious terrorism-related citizen tips. There have been some good articles on specific instances in recent months, maybe someone else will have a link.

Shouldn't people on FR have just a wee bit of a problem with this Harry Browne fellow being wildly anti-American? Thank God that most do.

[Uncle Miltie]

Memo to the CATO Institute: Libertarianism arrives at this stupidity too often. I am no longer a member.

[Ben Ficklin]

In case you hadn't heard, TIPS is dead. However, all of the organized suspicious activity reporting(SAR)groups are alive and well.

For the unorganized individuals, those toll free numbers still work. And of course it can be done anonymously if you interested in getting even with someone.

[Orual]

And you will die happy.

Is that a smile on your face, Harry?

Nymphs Finding the Head of Orpheus - John William Waterhouse

[Lexington Green]

""\For the unorganized individuals, those toll free numbers still work. And of course it can be done anonymously if you interested in getting even with someone."

As it should be... citizen soldiers... danger lies in institutionalizing a snitch system...

[Steve Eisenberg]

The Fed Gov is out of control and has not been operating under the constitution or the bill of rights for some time now, in fact since i was born in 1955

Check out the Alien and Sedition Acts. These were passed shortly after the Bill of Rights were ratified and constitute a greater violation of the first amendment than anything going down now.

No country is perfect. But if you won't pay your taxes to a country as fundamentally decent and close to being ruled by law as this one, there is no country you would find good enough to be loyal to. It's a shame that when they catch you for not paying your taxes, you won't get the same treatment as an idiot who sticks up a liquor store. Or who knows, maybe they'll be getting tough on white collar crime?

[Kobyashi1942]

This article is right on the money. If Bush was serious about his phony war, he'd be deporting thousands of Arabs. But alsa, he's too busy subverting the constitution.

[mv1]

Mr Browne and Mr Paul have unsound, dangerous ideas.
We need a new law to have them picked up, maybe we don't even need a new law. This is war.

[eshu]

In case you hadn't heard, TIPS is dead.

According to the Governement TIPS website, it is still there.

http://www.citizencorps.gov/tips.html

And of course it can be done anonymously if you interested in getting even with someone.

I have seen a lot of posts on this site where people have made statements about Clinton that could be interpreted as "intimidating," which is of course the new definition of "domestic terrorism," at least according to the PATRIOT USA act.

I probably should report those posters, huh? Anyone who would heap scorn on even an ex-president really is a threat to our national morale and security, after all...