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Old 07-15-2002, 02:15 PM   #1
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What do all really successful totalitarian states have in common? Why, citizen informants of course. Here's your chance to get in on the ground floor of something big.Click here to join the American Stasi
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Old 07-16-2002, 12:48 AM   #2
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What do all really successful totalitarian states have in common? Why, citizen informants of course. Here's your chance to get in on the ground floor of something big.Click here to join the American Stasi
a part of the USA Freedom Corps. tm
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Old 07-16-2002, 01:58 AM   #3
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TIPS

US planning to recruit one in 24 Americans as citizen spies

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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. The program would use a minimum of 4 per cent of Americans to report "suspicious activity".
The terrorists have won!
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Old 07-25-2002, 10:46 AM   #4
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I believe I read that TIPS has been cancelled. Has anyone else heard that? Or, are we going to live in SS Amerika?
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Old 07-26-2002, 11:41 AM   #5
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I thought that myself until I read thisWashington Post article
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Old 07-29-2002, 11:32 AM   #6
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Controversial Operation TIPS appears dead
BY CASSIO FURTADO
Knight Ridder Newspapers

WASHINGTON - - The Homeland Security Bill passed early Saturday by the House of Representatives appears to kill Operation TIPS, the administration's controversial effort to encourage millions of Americans to report suspected terrorists to authorities.


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