True Tales of the Citizen Corps: A New Breed of Secret Agent

Ever Vigilant ^ | 07/24/2002 | Lee R. Shelton IV

[Democratic_Machiavelli]

:D

I laughed so hard, I almost stopped breathing. Seriously. Don't know why. Maybe because I'm getting too serious and I need the comic relief.

Thanks!

[eshu]

Hilarious article about TIPS!

[Dukie]

"Monsters Due on Maple Street" You are quite correct, sir.
Claude Akins as one of the players trying to maintain sanity in a neighborhood gone mad.

"The Obsolete Man" ... Fritz Weaver, first as judge & grand inquisitor,only to slip up in his moment of great distress and himself also found obsolete in his role as was Burgess Meredith - Mr. Wordsworth.

Robert Redford as a severely wounded policeman, initially refused help by the old widow as she believes him to be the angel of death come to claim her. ....... Charles Bronson and Elizabeth Montgomery as opposing combatants in a post apocalypse world.....etc.

Imaginative writing, good casting and stories with a message within a half hour format.

[Twodees]

when Bush leaves office it may very well will happen.

When he leaves office? I think he's looking forward to seeing this happen on his watch. The boy only looks stupid.

[Omedalus]

You all are grossly mis-evaluating the way in which TIPS runs (or will run).

News flash for y'all: Your average cable guy can, and sometimes does, call the FBI if he sees something "suspicious" ANYWAY, regardless of whether or not he styles himself a "secret agent".

The FBI has absolutely no use for an informant who calls in a report on an elderly grandmother with a flower garden. The cable guy in the story would get a chance to make such a call exactly once. The FBI would come, knock on the woman's door, see she's not a threat, apologize for wasting her time, and give the cable guy a long talking-to.

If he was found making a habit of it, he'd be jailed under aggressive accusation clauses. These are the same laws that jail women who cry, "Rape!" to put away ex-boyfriends they don't like.

The sky isn't falling, folks. I'm sorry to shatter all your conspiracy theory illusions, but the article presents a work of fiction, nothing more.

[Pining_4_TX]

Oh yeah? Well, I'm hoping to be a commandant or something in the brave new corps., and I plan to turn in everyone who cuts in front of me in traffic. That'll show 'em! :)