US planning to recruit one in 24 Americans as citizen spies

[shamanstar]

im so sorry- i thought it was from january 15th- i just got the notice from clg.
i apologize that this isnt lbn.
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/07/14/1026185141232.html

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".


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.

[demnan]

1. Republican-style jobs program!

[Khephra]

2. July 15 2002?

Not quite breaking news,is it?

[54anickel]

5. Did a quick Google - It vanished in November of 2002

http://www.politechbot.com/p-04173.html

SEC. 880. PROHIBITION OF THE TERRORISM INFORMATION AND PREVENTION SYSTEM.
>Any and all activities of the Federal Government to
>implement the proposed component program of the Citizen
>Corps known as Operation TIPS (Terrorism Information
>and Prevention System) are hereby prohibited.

[grasswire]

3. we're done

stick a fork in us. The only thing separating us from Soviet Russia is the bread lines and the families crowding into tiny apartments and the food shortages. That's coming, I suppose.

[Emboldened Chimp]

4. Thankfully this is old news....

but i wouldn't doubt if they planned on resurrecting this Orwellian nonsense....

[Moderator]

6. Not LBN... locking.

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