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"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. ---snip!--
As with the Patriot Act, TIPS is being pursued as
part of the so-called war against terrorism."
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"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.
---snip!-- 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."
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"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."
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/07/14/1026185141232.html
http://citizencorps.gov/tips.html
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