I wish to point out that people who will harm informants do not need my encouragement to do so. During the 60s heyday of COINTELPRO, informants were being beaten and in some cases killed by those they spied on; a fact the FBI tried to conceal from other informants or potential informants. Indeed the FBI went so far as to plant fake evidence on people they did not like identifying them as informants in the hopes that they would then be killed by their own people.

To those considering volunteering for the informants program: Informants are not liked by the people they spy on, no matter how innocent those people are of any wrongdoing. You will get hurt. Nobody will consider you a hero. You will be considered even less socially acceptable than you are now. You might get killed. That's the truth the TIPS people don't want you to know.

To the rest of the population and to the TIPS thugs: People who tend to want to be informants are those who feel they have no power or authority in life. Becoming an informant gives these misfits and losers a sense of power and of self importance. The surest give-away that someone has become an informant is that formerly meek people suddenly develop a sense of arrogance with no visible reasons why along with a sudden desire to join widely disparate organizations they formerly had no interest in.

One problem that one has with an institution of informants is that institutions have quotas and informants, eager to keep their small power and self importance, are eager to produce results. In an environment where few real crimes can be found to report on, "disloyalty" is the denouncement of the day. Disloyalty need not be real to those tasked with finding it, no more than witchcraft needed to be real to those tasked to find that imaginary crime. And as was the case with the witchcraft denunciations, and with the 60s COINTELPRO, accusations reflected not real crimes but petty jealousies, slights, and minor vengeance. People were accused because they were better looking, than the informants, were after the same promotion that the informants wanted, had a family member who refused to "go all the way" on a first date with the informant, and so forth. With no money and no public acclaim, informants seek their rewards in other fashions!

Because of the problems with reliability of people who volunteer to be informants, not to mention the problems with coordinating the data from an estimated million sources, the TIPS program isn't really about fighting terror. Terrorists do not, after all, walk up to total strangers and ask if they want to help blow up a building (the same cannot historically be said to be true for the informants themselves). It should therefore be obvious that the TIPS program is intended to discourage people from talking to each other about what is going on, to keep the people of this nation from openly expressing their concerns out of fear who might be listening, to keep the people of the United States totally dependent on radio and TV to tell them how wonderful the war to conquer the oil is, how beloved our leaders are of the people, and how only wrong-thinking people could ever doubt the greatness of the nation.

TIPS is another scare tactic to keep the people of the United States silent and under control. I personally don't think the government can find a million losers to volunteer as informants. I don't think they really intend to try. The goal of TIPS is for you to THINK there is an informant in every office and in every classroom to scare you into silence, to publicly promise that you still have the Constitutional right to free speech and assembly even as they trick you into not using those rights.

So, don't be scared of these losers. Most informants are harmless, preferring to stay home and jerk off to James Bond movies to the real world. Those who do venture out tend to be rather obvious, which has led to the joke making the rounds in the patriot movement that the easiest way to spot an informant is to find the guy with the dynamite trying to get someone else to blow something up.

So when you find an informant, let them know that they are objects of scorn and ridicule, not humans of any substance to be feared. Make fun of them. Play the same kind of dirty tricks on them that they play on others. Feed them bad information. Make the TIPS people doubt their informants' credibility. make them burn up their budgets following false trails. You are justified in wrecking the TIPS system because the Constitution does not authorize the government to spy on the population of the United States. TIPS is, by definition, as illegal an operation as COINTELPRO was.