PREP, neofascist, buying and selling people, Homeland Security, Operation TIPS

"Political Re-Education Program, or PREP, Brock's own baby, his gamble on a
career coup, his thin-ice special, just about to be put in as a rider to
what would be the Crime Control Act of 1970 by a not-so-neo fascist
congressman from Trasero County [...] the law, *his* law, would provide
that detainees in civil disturbances could be taken to certain Justice
Department reserves and there offered achoice between federal prosecution
and federal employment, as independentcontractors working undercover for,
but not out of, the DOJ's Political Intelligence Office. After undergoing a
full training curriculum that included the use of various weapons, they
could be transferred--the contracts essentially sold--to the FBI and under
that control be infiltrated, often again and again, , into college
campuses, radical organizations, and other foci of domestic unrest."
(Vineland, 268) "Brock [...] leaning darkly in above her like any of the
sleek raptors that decorate fascist architecture." (287)

...see also:

Spying eyes
Bill Berkowitz - WorkingForChange

06.23.02 - Coming at you sometime this summer will be Operation TIPS - a
phalanx of one million well-trained civilian tipsters on the lookout for
"suspicious terrorist activity."

Operation TIPS (the Terrorist Information and Prevention System) is part of
President Bush's new Citizens Corps - a division of his USA Freedom Corps
initiative. Beginning in August 2002, Operation TIPS, a pilot project run
out of the Department of Justice, will dispatch one million workers -
likely to include truckers, letter carriers, train conductors, ship
captains, utility employees and others - to run down and formally report
"suspicious terrorist activity."

A few weeks back, the FBI unveiled its new domestic surveillance agenda.
According to the Washington Post: "New Justice Department guidelines...
give[s] FBI agents latitude to monitor Internet sites, libraries and
religious institutions without first having to offer evidence of potential
criminal activity." The FBI's new powers are in accord with a number of
other recent policy changes that are eating away at our civil liberties.

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