Thou shalt not suffer a TIPSter to live by Matt Giwer, © 2002 [July]
Very few people know me. Quickly, I did twenty years with the US Department of Defense and had both US and NATO clearances. I worked on some projects I can talk about to most people's satisfaction. I worked on a couple I can't talk about. That is not a brag. That is about average where I worked. Yes, I have a problem with all the crap which is being dumped on us in law since 9/11. I would have much less problem with it if terrorism were strictly defined and if any information gathered as a result of these new laws could only be used if terrorism were involved. That means, if a person is discovered to be a mass murderer by clandestine means it has to be forgotten and erased as it is not terrorism. That will never happen. I would be less concerned if their were a law defining this war and what constitutes victory and all subsequent laws containing a provision that they are null and void upon victory. That will never happen. Those appear obvious provisions to get people like me to grudgingly accept these new laws. And if the government were sincerely and solely interested in terrorism then certainly those would be provisions in the laws. They are quite reasonable and obvious once stated. Certainly they are clear to members of Congress as they are experts in creating laws. The absence of such provisions means there is no intention of these new laws being limited to terrorism and no intention whatsoever of their ever being repealed. TIPSters will report that unfinished bomb on your cocktail table to the FBI and that your are living beyond your means to the IRS and that picture of your naked daughter on a bearskin rug when two years old to the local police, you pervert. There is no way out of this now that it has started. What the citizen militias said would happen is now becoming law. When citizen militias started the threat from the government was mainly a trend in the laws and its behavior. Now it is becoming a matter of law. Citizen militias have now become essential. All knowledge from all of history and from all nations tells us that every time there has been a secret police it has resulted in secret arrests, torture and murder. All knowledge tells us nothing good has ever come from it, not once, never. Cheka, Gestapo, Stasi are names that live in infamy. Lesser known organizations all over the world are equally infamous in the nations where they operated. Members of TIPS will be no different. They cannot be any different as they are human and all secret spy organizations turn out the same. But those joining will never believe it can happen to them. You can tell them, argue with them, try to persuade them but nothing will work. So the only thing left is to tell them flat out the American people will not tolerate it. The people will take up the slogan Thou shalt not suffer a TIPSter to live. If that does not get through to them nothing will. For their own sake do everything you can to stop them from participating. This is your husband, wife, child, parent, friend or neighbor. Explain to them they have violated the first rule by saying they are participating. As secret police always oppress others, the others never take it quietly. In countries where the people were disarmed it was moderately safe but half the reprisals of the secret police were for their members being found with their throats cut. In America where over half the population is armed the life of a member of the secret police will not be more than a week after being unmasked. The least you can do is give them advice on how to stay alive. They are people you care about and for your own sake you do not want them to turn on you as all secret police have always done, turning on those closest to them. And you will naturally turn on them. Secret police turn brother against brother, daughter against mother, father against son. That is the nature of it.
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