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July 26, 2007

Tattletale Traitors Wanted

The FBI would like to spend $22 million to recruit more than 15,000 tattletales, I mean "informants" – people who will serve as little domestic spies, providing them with secrets about their neighbors. They don't exactly describe it that way, of course, but that's what it is. You know it isn't good because the FBI has also recently proposed expanding their collection and analysis of data on Americans, keeping our phone records for a year, and increasing "black bag" secret entry operations. All this spying on Americans would overheat the FBI's current database system, of course, so that has to be overhauled.

This phony "War on Terror" is setting us up for a very bad future, people. I would suggest that those who sign up to inform on their fellow Americans probably don't deserve to be called Americans. Their loyalty should be to the Constitution and to the people it protects – their fellow-citizens, not to the government, particularly when that government is in the process of trashing the Constitution and turning the people against each other.

Posted by Becky at July 26, 2007 02:43 PM