omg.
“US planning to recruit one in 24 Americans as citizen spies”
Reds under the beds!! Reds under the beds!!
Does this smell of McCarthyism to you? It’s just plain witch-hunting. People “reporting” on their neighbours private activities – possibly even because of grudges.
“A pilot program, described on the government Web site www.citizencorps.gov, is scheduled to start next month in 10 cities, with 1 million informants participating in the first stage. Assuming the program is initiated in the 10 largest US cities, that will be 1 million informants for a total population of almost 24 million, or one in 24 people.”
Big Brother is now the little old lady next door.
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