Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2002 14:25:37 -0400 From: carol@carolmoore.net (Carol Moore) Subject: [libs4peace] Petition: No Cooperation with TIPS
http://www.PetitionOnline.com/NoTIPS/petition.html
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> No cooperation with the U.S. Stasi
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> View Current Signatures - Sign the Petition
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> To: US citizens and residents
> WE, the undersigned, categorically reject President Bush's Freedom
> Corps, Citizens Corps, Citizens Corps Councils, Operation TIPS
> (Terrorism Information and Prevention System), Volunteers in Police
> Service, and Neighborhood Watch Program.
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> We refuse to participate in an American version of East Germany's Stasi
> or the similar citizens' spying programs established by Nazi Germany,
> Vichy France, Stalinist Russia, Mao's Cultural Revolution, or Khmer
> Rouge Cambodia.
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> We refuse to spy on our neighbors, denounce people who have different
> religious and political beliefs than our own, or use our positions of
> employment as truck drivers, couriers, parcel deliverers, ship captains,
> train conductors, letter carriers, utility workers, private security guards,
> school teachers, book sellers, librarians, janitors, sanitation workers,
> telecommunications workers, clergy, journalists, social workers, doctors,
> nurses, web site managers, chat room moderators, pharmacists, sales
> clerks, or other positions where we interface with the public to assist law
> enforcement and intelligence agencies in creating files on people
> exercising their constitutional rights.
>
> We reject the Freedom Corps, Citizens Corps, and any other contrivance
> established in the future to infringe on the civil liberties of Americans and
> legal residents of the United States.
>
> Under no circumstance will we join or be coerced into joining any of the
> government groups that encourage spying on our fellow citizens.
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> Sincerely,
>
> The Undersigned
>
> Signature window expires 1 Oct. Afterwards this petition will be sent to
> Tom Ridge, President Bush, John Ashcroft, and the congressional
> leadership.Its
> really not a petition but a statement of non-cooperation with these new
> snooping organizations ---a sort of cyber-oriented civil disobedience
> campaign.
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