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US to use citizens as infromants in war on terror
yunus
07/14/02 at 21:11:14
This has gotten very little press attention but go to google.com and the
govt agencies are all on top of it!!  See news story below...

http://www.citizencorps.gov/tips.html
Operation TIPS - the Terrorism Information and Prevention System - will be a

nationwide program giving millions of American truckers, letter carriers,
train
conductors, ship captains, utility employees, and others a formal way to
report
suspicious terrorist activity. Operation TIPS, a project of the U.S.
Department of
Justice, will begin as a pilot program in 10 cities that will be selected.

Operation TIPS, involving 1 million workers in the pilot stage, will be a
national
reporting system that allows these workers, whose routines make them
well-positioned to recognize unusual events, to report suspicious activity.
Every
participant in this new program will be given an Operation TIPS information
sticker
to be affixed to the cab of their vehicle or placed in some other public
location so
that the toll-free reporting number is readily available.

Everywhere in America, a concerned worker can call a toll-free number and
be
connected directly to a hotline routing calls to the proper law enforcement
agency or
other responder organizations when appropriate.

Operation TIPS is coming in August 2002.
Volunteer now!
+++++++++++++
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/07/14/1026185141232.html

> 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
> www.citizencorps.gov, 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.
>
> Ritt Goldstein is an investigative journalist and a former leader in the
> movement for US law enforcement accountability. He has lived in Sweden
> since 1997, seeking political asylum there, saying he was the victim of
> life-threatening assaults in retaliation for his accountability efforts.
> His application has been supported by the European Parliament, five of
> Sweden's seven big political parties, clergy, and Amnesty and other
> rights groups.
>
> This story was found at:
> http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/07/14/1026185141232.html
>

Re: US to use citizens as infromants in war on ter
jannah
07/17/02 at 03:58:25
[slm]

wow sounds like the middle eastern country i was living in awhile back... this type of thing of spies everywhere is totally what the gov't uses to control the people.. because it creates FEAR and fear creates the rationale to have a police state.

now the other frightening thing about this is can you imagine trucker bubba as a spy and informant!!! sheesh...
Re: US to use citizens as infromants in war on ter
jaihoon
07/17/02 at 05:53:04
Much more than I fear, i think it will erode the TRUST that innocent civilians in US have with each other, and their suspicion with the govt, already exxagerated in movies, will increase more.

The whole plot looks like TOTAL RECALL to me  :D

... and a good script for another hollywood blockbuster starrin bruce or arnold


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