https://buzzflash.com/contributors/2002/07/19_Spies.html
 
July 19, 2002
 
Neighborhood Spies And Nightmares
 
by Lois Erwin
 
Dear Buzz,  
 
Think of the worst person you know of in your neighborhood, and then imagine this person being given permission and encouragement by our president and attorney general to spy on you and your other neighbors. Whatever observations this person makes about you or anybody who comes to visit you, or about your neighbors or anybody who comes to visit them, will go into a government file. A government file that you will NEVER be told about, but a file that will circulate AS TRUTH throughout the government "intelligence" community.  
 
This neighborhood snitch can, if he/she wants to, make up things about you and your neighbors. Doesn't matter. Once it enters your file inside the government intelligence community, it will become Truth for them, and for you. You will have NO opportunity to refute the charges, clarify matters or even know such charges have been made against you. The East German Stasi knew how to run such a program. Hey, it worked for them; it will work for John Ashcroft and George W. Bush. Their critics will "disappear."  
 
Whatever scurrilous thing your neighbor wants to input goes in the file. Even, to put the best interpretation on it, if your neighbor misinterprets something innocent and turns it into something nefarious, it goes into your file.  
 
The local, state and federal police and government officials are then free to act upon that information. They can already -- since the installation of the Patriot Act -- enter your home without a warrant, without your knowledge, without any opportunity on your part to object, rifle through your belongings, cruise through your computer, and then leave. You will never be told the government invaded your home, warrantless, and snooped around. Does that give you the creepy-crawlies?  
 
Well, folks, it's all true. The government can enter your home nowadays without a warrant and without your knowledge. Your neighbor will be able to turn you in for things you have never done -- just because your neighbor is a sick person, just because your neighbor hates you or hates humanity, or just because your neighbor is a rabid right-winger who loves and believes Rush Limbaugh and/or Ann Coulter and feels it his duty to cleanse the world of people who don't agree with him/them.  
 
Remember, we're NOT talking about your nice neighbors here; we're talking about your worst neighbor signing up to be the government snitch. The crazy neighbor. The guy who loves guns and hates gays. The guy who spouts Christianity and thinks people of any other religion should convert or be killed. That's the neighbor who will sign up for the new government TIP program.  
 
Don't say I didn't warn you.  
 
Read this about Neighborhood Watch: http://www.citizencorps.gov/watch.html  
AND: http://www.policevolunteers.org/volunteer/  
 
Be aware those are the government's descriptions of the programs. It is up to you to seek out other sources to find interpretations of those programs. It seems benign when you read the Ashcroft version; it won't seem so benign when you read what is REALLY going to happen.  
 
A good place to start is the Boston Globe editorial "Ashcroft vs. Americans" at: http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/198/editorials/Ashcroft_vs_Americans%2B.shtml  
 
 
Lois Erwin  
 
 

Just some of the potential spies that would have been used under opperation T.I.P.S. The truck drivers and bus drivers have been recruited under seperate programs, and what do you want to bet that the others have also? This means that unofficially T.I.P.S. went ahead in other forms. When I add up those numbers I get way over a million spies and this does not even come close to the civilians and the cops and business communities who are taking part in these programs. According to the citizen corp website they have a participation of most of society in one form or other, which is pretty scary when you think about it. Most societies already had these community spy systems in place and most immagrates already know the corporate and don't ask any question rules.  
 
300,000 -letter carriers.
500,000 -Truck drivers
600,000 -Bus Drivers
250-000- UPS workers
 85,000- Longshoremen's association
 
This is just some of the potential people that would have been taking part. Recently I heard tales of pilots that were being asked to meet a snitching quota, and photo mart employees were also being asked to check undeveoloped film for irregular footage. (Maybe some more of those cool Abu Ghraib pics will be found)

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Now in this example if for any reason you were not running a drug house, but had people stopping by for quick stops for various reasons, you would have been needlessly harassed, stalked, and mobbed, but a bunch of know it all who think that they know everything.
 
The same thing would happenin if they thought you were a terrorist, crazy, prostitute, pedophile or whatever. The good citizens victoriously got the house shut down and the members of the house put in jail. It's never clear in my book, what real evidence they had on these people. I mean it's clear that they were willing to intimidate, call the cops and make repeated complaints before they ever knew if they were selling drugs or not, they were also willing to spy on them and intimidate and harass them, but it's not clear if there was any evidence that they were actually selling drugs.  
 
Also just because they ended up behind bars, it also does not mean they were drug dealers. The story is never clear on how they found proof that these people were drug dealers. Coming from a world of gang stalking these are vital questions to ask, because as we have seen, members of the gang stalking community are often accused of things they did not do, and can end up losing their homes and livelihoods based on lies.