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Monday, 29. July 2002

TIPS for snitches


Operation TIPS or Terrorism Information and Prevention System is a US Federal program that encourages citizens (especially people like mail carriers, utility workers who visit lots of people and houses) to inform on suspicious activities of their fellow citizens. Amid a great deal of angry criticism of TIPS during last couple of weeks, Eugene Volokh at UCLA law school points out that there is nothing intrinsically wrong with government asking people to report crime like terrorism (it is after all people's right to report crimes) while conceding open possibilities for abuse and inefficiency. While Professor Volokh's argument is eminently reasonable, it does not soothe people's feelings. What makes people angry is that their public servants had galls to slip the leash and came up with such impudent idea of encouraging people to become snitches. It is bad enough America suffered its worst massacre partly because these public servants were either negligent or incompetent to prevent it. Yet not one of them was sanctioned for their dereliction of duty. And now this?


 

 
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