[ale] [OT] Planned volunteer-informant corps elicits 1984' fears

[Charles Marcus]

Happily, this trash was removed from the bill by Dick Armey (thank you
Dick!), along with the back-door National ID card:

" House Majority Leader Dick Armey, in his markup of legislation to create a
Homeland Security Department, yesterday rejected a national identification
card and scrapped a program that would use volunteers in domestic
surveillance. ..."

www.washtimes.com/national/20020719-90562710.htm


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