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Angry Dragon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-05-09 09:38 PM
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FBI Wants Businesses to Rat on Their Customers
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FBI Wants Businesses to Rat on Their Customers
By Stefan Deeran
November 3rd, 2009 @ 3:47 pm


If you demand identity privacy or insist on paying with cash when patronizing a local business, then you could be a suspected terrorist.  That’s according to FBI flyers which have been sent to tattoo shops as part of its “Communities Against Terrorism” drive.

The government now wants local businesses to keep an eye on their customers and report any suspicious activity. Apparently, getting a group tattoo or radically changing your hairstyle is a cause for concern.

Getting neighbors to rat on their neighbors is a page straight out of the Soviet Union playbook.  When there is that kind of distrust at the local level, it’s a lot more difficult to rally around a petition against the government.


http://blogs.bnet.com/intercom/?p=3232&tag=col1;post-3232&tag=nl.e808
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Fumesucker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-05-09 09:43 PM
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1. We have a newscaster here in Atlanta who is a good candidate for being watched..
Monica (used to be) Kaufman changes her hair style drastically on about a weekly basis and has for many years now.

Her hair is a running joke here.

Oh, and government has been getting neighbors to rat on each other for decades now as part of the war on (some) drugs.

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