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| US planning to recruit one in 24 Americans as citizen spies |
| 2004-11-14 |
| 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"... |
| Posted by:Anonymoose |
| #13 ZF the SMH is owned by John Fairfax & Sons, not by News Ltd (Rupert Murdoch) You are right about them being moonbats tho... An eg. When I was in Sydney last May, reading my fathers SMH, it had a breathless little gossip item about Condi Rice having a slip of the tongue and referring to GWB as "my husband" God knows where that came from. |
| Posted by: Grunter 2004-11-14 11:32:22 PM |
| #12 "Boy, I wish I could git me somma that guvmint spy money..." |
| Posted by: mojo 2004-11-14 10:22:16 PM |
| #11 Sign me up, I'm gonna tell on you. |
| Posted by: Capt America 2004-11-14 10:20:23 PM |
| #10 In New York State, you can call the County Board of Health and report witnessing people in bars and taverns drinking beer and smoking cigarettes! The bar can then be fined and/or shut down. "First they came for the smokers..." |
| Posted by: JDB 2004-11-14 3:02:27 PM |
| #9 naomi's in the kitchen and the chicken's in the wok |
| Posted by: lex 2004-11-14 2:30:22 PM |
| #8 the robin sings at midnight the chair is against the wall |
| Posted by: spiffo 2004-11-14 1:51:31 PM |
| #7 LOL BD! fnord up lens three degrees the robin sings at midnight |
| Posted by: Shipman 2004-11-14 1:28:49 PM |
| #6 Actually, Fred, the Bush administration outsourced the work. I'm just waiting for my Green Card, then I'll be off to start loitering at my assigned street corner in downtown Fargo. I gather from my Operator that the White House was glad the Kerry Team didn't get wind of this project. You know how John Edwards gets into a flap about this sort of thing... |
| Posted by: Bulldog 2004-11-14 12:27:32 PM |
| #5 It does make a good reality check, though. Here it is, two years later, and as anyone can see we're living in lockdown, with secret police on every corner... |
| Posted by: Fred 2004-11-14 12:20:57 PM |
| #4 SMH lead story today: "Living in an Oven" Climate change will stretch fire and rescue services within decades... |
| Posted by: Tom 2004-11-14 10:57:34 AM |
| #3 Sorry about the old date, should've checked first. Oh, well, a nice bit of paranoia anyway. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2004-11-14 10:54:58 AM |
| #2 It's pretty funny that the Sydney Morning Herald, Australia's version of al-Guardian (although Rupert Murdoch-owned), uses the Stasi in analogy. The fact is that the Stasi, like its predecessor the Gestapo - and the numerous ex-Gestapo operatives who staffed it, used to torture people to death and execute people who merely spoke out against the Honecker regime. SMH is out there in moonbatland. |
| Posted by: Zhang Fei 2004-11-14 10:51:29 AM |
| #1 Why are people posting articles over two years old? |
| Posted by: Robert Crawford 2004-11-14 10:47:42 AM |