{"id":617,"date":"2002-07-15T11:12:26","date_gmt":"2002-07-15T19:12:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/07\/15\/wanna-join-the-secret-police\/"},"modified":"2019-11-27T12:52:00","modified_gmt":"2019-11-27T20:52:00","slug":"wanna-join-the-secret-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/07\/15\/wanna-join-the-secret-police\/","title":{"rendered":"Wanna join the secret police?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whee &#8212; just in case we weren&#8217;t paranoid enough, now our oh-so-friendly government is going to start <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/articles\/2002\/07\/14\/1026185141232.html\" title=\"SMH.com.au: US planning to recruit one in 24 Americans as citizen spies\">encouraging us to report on each other<\/a>. According to this report from an Austrailian news site (no big surprise that it wasn&#8217;t a US-based news site that broke the article), &#8220;&#8230;the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.citizencorps.gov\/tips.html\" title=\"Operation TIPS\">Terrorism Information and Prevention System, or TIPS<\/a>, means the US will have a higher percentage of citizen informants than the former East Germany through the infamous Stasi secret police.&#8221; Now <em>there&#8217;s<\/em> a happy thought.<\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.daypop.com\/top\/\" title=\"Daypop top 40\">Daypop<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;the Terrorism Information and Prevention System, or TIPS, means the US will have a higher percentage of citizen informants than the former East Germany through the infamous Stasi secret police.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2042],"tags":[14],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}