Louis Lingg writes "The U.S. government Citizens Corps website has posted information about the Operation TIPS (Terrorism Information and Prevention System) initiative.

Operation TIPS is a 'nationwide
program giving millions of American truckers, letter carriers, train conductors, ship captains,
utility employees, and others a formal way to report suspicious terrorist activity.' The pilot program begins this August in ten American cities.

It is anticipated that the program will eventually use a minimum of 4 per cent of Americans to report "suspicious activity". That's a higher percentage of citizen informers than was used by the infamous Stasi secret police in the former East Germany.

The Sidney Morning Herald has posted a story on this effort by the U.S. government to turn U.S. citizens into rats."