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**Frazzled**

JohnHwangDD wrote:Nah, this is *America*. HSA is protecting us from Terrorism. I support our Troops.

To be honest, I don't think the STA-SI will need to wear brown shirts. I think they'll be plainclothes and unobtrusive, just blending into the background. If HSA does it right, the STA-SI operative could be your next-door neighbor, and you'd never know unless you did something un-American...

You're right. Brownshirts are so 1937. You reckon they'll instigate the new "tell a friend of your neighbor's crimes" posts above every corner mailbox? I heard that worked pretty well for some similar organizations.

**JohnHwangDD**

Frazzled wrote:You reckon they'll instigate the new "tell a friend of your neighbor's crimes" posts above every corner mailbox? I heard that worked pretty well for some similar organizations.

Um, HSA already proposed that a year or two ago... You're supposed to spy on your neighbors, and then inform on them if you think they're doing something un-American.

**Kilkrazy**

America went through a phase of that in the 1950s. It was called McCarthyism. It would be nice to think that a lesson was learned but maybe it has been forgotten.