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Petition against US citizen Spy program tips
yunus
07/18/02 at 16:19:46
http://www.PetitionOnline.com/NoTIPS/petition.html > > No cooperation with the U.S. Stasi > > View Current Signatures   -   Sign the Petition > > To:  US citizens and residents > WE, the undersigned, categorically reject President Bush's Freedom > Corps, Citizens Corps, Citizens Corps Councils, Operation TIPS > (Terrorism Information and Prevention System), Volunteers in Police > Service, and Neighborhood Watch Program. > > We refuse to participate in an American version of East Germany's Stasi > or the similar citizens' spying programs established by Nazi Germany, > Vichy France, Stalinist Russia, Mao's Cultural Revolution, or Khmer > Rouge Cambodia. > > We refuse to spy on our neighbors, denounce people who have different > religious and political beliefs than our own, or use our positions of > employment as truck drivers, couriers, parcel deliverers, ship captains, > train conductors, letter carriers, utility workers, private security guards, > school teachers, book sellers, librarians, janitors, sanitation workers, > telecommunications workers, clergy, journalists, social workers, doctors, > nurses, web site managers, chat room moderators, pharmacists, sales > clerks, or other positions where we interface with the public to assist law > enforcement and intelligence agencies in creating files on people > exercising their constitutional rights. > > We reject the Freedom Corps, Citizens Corps, and any other contrivance > established in the future to infringe on the civil liberties of Americans and > legal residents of the United States. > > Under no circumstance will we join or be coerced into joining any of the > government groups that encourage spying on our fellow citizens. > > Sincerely, > > The Undersigned > > Signature window expires 1 Oct. Afterwards this petition will be sent to > Tom Ridge, President Bush, John Ashcroft, and the congressional > leadership.Its > really not a petition but a statement of non-cooperation with these new > snooping organizations ---a sort of cyber-oriented civil disobedience > campaign.
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