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- IkeaBoy - 07-14-2002

Does this bother anyone else? Recruiting the "average" American and giving him a right to spy on the rest of us. I mean I know that there are terrorist cells in America but how do the rest of you feel about the armchair Thought Police? Would yo join?

US planning to recruit one in 24 Americans as citizen spies
By Ritt Goldstein
July 15 2002

The Bush Administration aims to recruit millions of United States citizens as domestic informants in a program likely to alarm civil liberties groups.

The Terrorism Information and Prevention System, or TIPS, means the US will have a higher percentage of citizen informants than the former East Germany through the infamous Stasi secret police. The program would use a minimum of 4 per cent of Americans to report "suspicious activity".

Civil liberties groups have already warned that, with the passage earlier this year of the Patriot Act, there is potential for abusive, large-scale investigations of US citizens.

As with the Patriot Act, TIPS is being pursued as part of the so-called war against terrorism. It is a Department of Justice project.

Highlighting the scope of the surveillance network, TIPS volunteers are being recruited primarily from among those whose work provides access to homes, businesses or transport systems. Letter carriers, utility employees, truck drivers and train conductors are among those named as targeted recruits.

A pilot program, described on the government Web site <!-- w --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.citizencorps.gov">http://www.citizencorps.gov</a><!-- w -->, is scheduled to start next month in 10 cities, with 1 million informants participating in the first stage. Assuming the program is initiated in the 10 largest US cities, that will be 1 million informants for a total population of almost 24 million, or one in 24 people.

Historically, informant systems have been the tools of non-democratic states. According to a 1992 report by Harvard University's Project on Justice, the accuracy of informant reports is problematic, with some informants having embellished the truth, and others suspected of having fabricated their reports.

Present Justice Department procedures mean that informant reports will enter databases for future reference and/or action. The information will then be broadly available within the department, related agencies and local police forces. The targeted individual will remain unaware of the existence of the report and of its contents.

The Patriot Act already provides for a person's home to be searched without that person being informed that a search was ever performed, or of any surveillance devices that were implanted.

At state and local levels the TIPS program will be co-ordinated by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, which was given sweeping new powers, including internment, as part of the Reagan Administration's national security initiatives. Many key figures of the Reagan era are part of the Bush Administration.

The creation of a US "shadow government", operating in secret, was another Reagan national security initiative.



Edited By IkeaBoy on July 14 2002 at 4:46

- Arpikarhu - 07-14-2002

didnt the Stasi already try this? or was it the communists with block monitors? this is all an attempt by ZOG to undermine american freedoms and institute a dictatorship under the Bilderburg principles.

- HedCold - 07-14-2002

i would be one. i always thought it would be cool to have some gov't job where you know stuff most people don't. maybe i'm just nosey

- Arpikarhu - 07-14-2002

:lookatme: hi bestest of buddies!!!!!!!!!!!

- HedCold - 07-14-2002

[Image: xyxwave.gif] hola

- Arpikarhu - 07-14-2002

how was your vacation? did you bring me anything?:clueless:

- Hybrid - 07-14-2002

aids

- HedCold - 07-14-2002

it was fun :thumbs-up:
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heres a new hat for you to post in.

did you get me anything? :clueless:

- Arpikarhu - 07-14-2002

i have naked pictures of luna for you. will send them later:thumbs-up:

- HedCold - 07-14-2002

neato :bouncer:

- DGW - 07-14-2002

Alkey and Ants?

- Arpikarhu - 07-14-2002

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joke for 1? joke for 1? your table is ready.