When I see this I want to cry.

I can't think of how to adequately express my dismay and fear. I'm more afraid of this than hijacked airplanes or dirty bombs or anthrax. This has more potential to ruin people's lives than any act of terrorism. Just the wording on the Citizen Corps website creeps me out.

Operation TIPS, involving 1 million workers in the pilot stage, will be a national reporting system that allows these workers, whose routines make them well-positioned to recognize unusual events, to report suspicious activity... Everywhere in America, a concerned worker can call a toll-free number and be connected directly to a hotline routing calls to the proper law enforcement agency or other responder organizations when appropriate.

One million people, people who we let in our houses - mail carriers, cable installers, the guy from the gas company, people who want to find "suspicious activity" and catch a terrorist so bad they can call the FBI and have your house torn apart and searched because you happen to speak Arabic or have a city map, or pictures of a certain building or happen to vocally disagree with The Way Things Are Going.

Doesn't anybody remember the people who lost their jobs, their livelihoods, their whole lives because they happened to speak Russian or think that communism was not that bad?

Where did my America go?