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Secret Police?

And since I am on the civil liberty posting idea already -

The ACLU has a page about the TIPS program which would have people whose jobs give them access to your home report "suspicious" behavior to the government. Yeah, the postal carrier or the cable guy or the maintenance people in your apartment complex could decide to turn you in because you don't seem to meet their criteria of suspicious. I can't think of many things creepier than that. It doesn't seem like this should even be possible in our country in this day and age, so click that link and send a free fax to your congresspeople telling them not to go along with this. We've already let our freedoms slip lately, and we need to draw the line somewhere or we won't have any freedoms left. So really, go click the link now and maybe kids in 50 years won't look back on this time as being quite as full of stupidity as the communist witch-hunts in the 1950s. Security is a good thing, but we need to remember what it is we are trying to protect or the security will be meaningless.