Claes Persson wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: rod/christine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Thursday, July 25, 2002 8:34 AM
> Subject: RE: {W&P} SV: The Republican Police State - An American Stasi
>
>
> >
> >
> > Al Winslow wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > Claes Persson wrote:
> > > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > > From: rod/christine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > > Sent: Saturday, July 20, 2002 1:01 AM
> > > > Subject: {W&P} The Republican Police State - An American Stasi
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > > The Republican Police State - An American Stasi
> > > > >
> > > > > http://reason.com/links/links071602.shtml
> > > > >
> > > > > =================
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > > The idea of TIPS is recalling storys from other times in other and more
> > > > suspect countrys. There is always some excuse for a construction like
> > > > this and this time there might be a good resan for it, but seen from
> > > > Northern Europe this gives a bad taste in the mouth anyway. Too close to
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Stasi, KGB and likes.
> > > >
> > > > Claes
> > > > §( :8-)
> > > >
> > > ----------------------------
> > >
> > > I don't like it myself. The US Postal Service has refused to
> > > participate. Many Americans are very protective of our independence. We
> > > are not a docile nation of sheep to be led into things that don't smell
> > > right to us.
> >
> > ===
> >
> > The Postal Service has done an "about-face" - and is reconsidering the
> > whole thing. Appropriations & Markup time on Capitol Hill will sway the
> >
> > Postman to deliver over the hapless, american citizen... the Stasi is
> > around the bend. It's coming... sooner, rather than later - more,
> > rather than less.
> >
> >
> > Rod
> >
> --What I find curious is that the President can launch a proposal like
> this. He must understand that many people can make the connection of
> this sceem to what really was going on in the eastern Europe, or is he
> counting on that many enough are too ignorant of history? Or does he
> really just mean well and is too naive to make the connection himself?
>
> Claes
>
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Hysterical press reports made it sound, at first blush, like something
that it is not. It doesn't amount to anything more than providing a
number to which people whose jobs have them moving around can give
reports of the kind that any responsible citizen would give even without
a special 800 [toll-free] number to call. Upon learning a bit more about
it, I pronounce it acceptable. It won't help much, probably. But it
isn't sinister. It doesn't give the postman secret police powers. There
are plenty of REAL problems to worry about. The TIPS program isn't one
of them.
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