Anonymous writes "Since its earliest days of blood thirsty conquest by rebels and murders, America has stood for hypocrisy.Equal rights, so long as you were white.Equal opportunity, so long as you were male.Share of the wealth, so long as you are one of the rich.A melting pot to all races, so long as its American.Freedom of speech, so long as its whispered.Justice for those who can afford it.Liberty to those who can enforce it.America grew to a world power by being the biggest bully on the hill. Its propaganda machine, the largest in history.Its culture, the most backward of all compared to the rest of the world.Its values on wealth and its ignorance of the world around it have made the USA one of the most hated societies in the world.Yet, it has been able to do one thing better then anyone else, obfuscate its military control over the public.Most countries that Americans have come to hate, have done so because those countries portray their forces in plain sight for everyone to see.Whereas the USA, has a massive society that thinks it is free from such control.Many Americans still think they live in a democracy, one that hasn't existed since the Regan era when F.E.M.A. was given presidential power to declare martial law whenever they deemed needed.

A very broad range of powers were granted with virtually no restrictions.Further, as a country that values wealth and material possessions above all else, capitalism reigns.Woes be to the American public.For they are sheep.Innocent in their ignorance of the world around them.Blind to the hatred that surrounds them.Lulled into a false sense of security by the government that protects them.And sadly, when they do taste the reality of the world, one can only pity them to see such shock and amazement on their faces.Sadly, yet long over due, Americans are realizing, just how out of touch they really are with their surrounding.This change, is about to get much much worse in the days, months and years to come.On the heels of plans for new powers to patrol people's Web use, the U.S. government is again turning to technology to monitor suspicious activity in the name of fighting terrorism.The government has unveiled more details of its Terrorist Information and Prevention System (TIPS), a plan to recruit volunteers across the country who will keep tabs on dubious or suspicious behavior.Behavior that has no defined action.Much like the German SS, the US has recruited its own to police itself.Citizens reporting anything suspecious to its goverment,in fear that if they don't they themself will be considerd suspecious.The program will involve the millions of American workers who, in the daily course of their work, are in a unique position to see potentially unusual or suspicious activity in public places, according to the TIPS Web site.Such workers also could include letter carriers, meter readers and others who would have access to private homes.Volunteers would report the activity to law enforcement via the Internet or by telephone. The government also has set up a site where people can offer their services to Citizen Corps, a White House-backed community-based volunteer network that includes the TIPS program.The American Civil Liberties Union, one of several critics of the plan, fears the proposal will encourage racial profiling and vigilantism, possibly leading to searches of private homes without a warrant.The administration apparently wants to implement a program that will turn local cable or gas or electrical technicians into government-sanctioned Peeping Toms, Rachel King, an ACLU legislative counsel, said in a statement.In addition, the database aspect of the plan has raised concerns among security experts who worry people could break in and learn the identities of informants.The TIPS Web site says information received will be entered into the national database and referred electronically to a point of contact in each state as appropriate.On Tuesday, the Department of Justice issued a statement responding to the barrage of criticism about the plan, saying it has been mischaracterized as an army of citizen spies.Barbara Comstock, director of public affairs for the department, said TIPS is simply a reporting system based on other programs in which people are encouraged to give details of suspicious activity in the course of doing their jobs.None of the Operation TIPS materials published on the Web or elsewhere have made reference to entry or access to the homes of individuals; nor has it ever been the intention of the Department of Justice, or any other agency, to set up such a program, Comstock said in the statement.The announcement of TIPS' details comes on top of several other government initiatives that have alarmed some members of the Web community. Six weeks after Sept. 11, Congress passed the U.S. Patriot Act, portions of which gave law enforcement greatly expanded powers to snoop on Internet communications.In May, Justice Department and FBI officials announced new guidelines that would allow agents to dig for information on Web sites and publicly available databases, even if they're not conducting a specific investigation. The move raised concerns that the government would spy on specific ethnic and activist groups without reason because it would relax guidelines set in the 1970s that discouraged compiling dossiers on people based on their religious or political activities.This week, Congress passed a bill that would carry a life sentence for some computer break-ins, a plan some have painted as an overzealous attempt to rein in hackers.This new bill and plans for control are obviously biased.Where does it stop?Computerized homes are part of the internet.Many business today are part of the internet.Some cars are part of the internet.Almost all financial systems are part of the internet.Goverment records, public, news and local criminal information are often posted on the internet for public viewing.Goverment backed organizations that handle massive public and supposed private data, such as Yahoo, have already been violating laws in abundance, without so much as a glance from the goverment.As such, while it may look different on the surface, the USA has become everything it publicly fears and proclaims to hate.If the American people don't wake up soon and take control over those whom it charges to protect it self, it will become but a brief page in history.Of course, given its brief history, one must ask, would that really be such a bad thing?"