A plain spoken editorial on exactly what is so fucked up about the TIPS program from The Boston Globe.
An excerpt: "Ashcroft's informant corps is a vile idea not merely because it violates civil liberties in a narrow legal sense or because it will sabotage genuine efforts to prevent terrorism by overloading law enforcement officials with irrelevant reports about Americans who have nothing to do with terrorists. Operation TIPS should be stopped because it is utterly anti-American. It would give Stalin and the KGB a delayed triumph in the Cold War - in the name of the Bush administration's war against terrorism." Full essay at http://www.commondreams.org/views02/0717-01.htm -Fred
