I found the original TIPS plan blue print.
 

In an effort to save our tax $$ (ours now that Im actualy paying the IRS) I have found the original blue print for the Homeland Security TIPS program..many of these are actualy being considered....hummmm Maybe they found the blue print before I did????????

The Stasi
East Germany's Ministry for State Security, known as the Stasi, featured probably the most comprehensive internal security operation of the Cold War. The Stasi built an astonishingly widespread network of informants -- researchers estimate that out of a population of 16 million, 400,000 people actively cooperated. The Stasi kept files on up to 6 million East German citizens -- one-third of the entire population.

The Stasi operated with broad power and remarkable attention to detail. All phone calls from the West were monitored, as was all mail. Similar surveillance was routine domestically. Every factory, social club and youth association was infiltrated; many East Germans were persuaded or blackmailed into informing on their own families.

The Stasi kept close tabs on all potential subversives. Stasi agents collected scent samples from people by wiping bits of cloth on objects they had touched. These samples were stored in airtight glass containers and special dogs were trained to track down the person's scent. The agency was authorized to conduct secret smear campaigns against anyone it judged to be a threat; this might include sending anonymous letters and making anonymous phone calls to blackmail the targeted person. Torture was an accepted method of getting information.

Stasi abuses led to protests in Leipzig that helped pave the way for the fall of the Berlin Wall. After reunification, many former Stasi agents were prosecuted. Today, any former Stasi domestic espionage officer is barred from police work in Berlin.


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PArt 2 with pic.
 

does this sound like the TIPS program???????


In 1989, East Germany's Ministry for State Security (the "Stasi") had 91,000 staff members and 174,000 unofficial collaborators - a ratio of one spy for every 62 citizens.

That intensity of state surveillance was probably without parallel anywhere in the world.

Neighbours spied on the people living next door and there were instances of one spouse spying on the other, Dr Alexander Dix, Brandenburg's Commissioner for Data Protection and the first in Germany with responsibility for access to information, told the International Symposium on Freedom of Information and Privacy held recently in Auckland.

Ive attached a pic of the proposed lobby decoration for the Office of homeland security...enjoy....rember its all fun in games until someone ends up in the gulag or siberia.
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Already thought of this, actually mentioned it in another post. My Ex grew up in the former East Germany, amazing insight into what life was like. Once the wall was down she left but her parents stayed, whenever we went back to visit she would point out the house of the former "Stasi" informants. Right across from a local store was a very large building which had served as a Stasi interogation and detention facility, chillingly familiar.

Wonder how many Stasi were former Gastapo. I'd bet a bunch.