[Dukie]

Rod Serling was so very prescient with his many episodes of the "Twilight Zone" - still seen on various cable channels and in video format. I highly commend the episode : "Nightmare on Elm Street" as a perfect illustration of the societal consequences when suspicion of each other is sewn among the citizenry.

The local government in Pittsburgh has implemented a kind of a paid TIPS program: An informer can annonymously turn in a report of an individual possessing a handgun which he believes may be illegal for the cops to check out. No need for other manifestations of criminal activity or knowledge of a history of criminal activity on the part of the subject. If it turns out to be an illegal possession, the rat ... er.... informant... stands to collect $100. If not, well, it was a training exercise in big brother's further intrusions into the lives of law abiding citizens.

[eshu]

This is great

[sheltonmac]

"I highly commend the episode: 'Nightmare on Elm Street'..."

Actually, I believe the name of the episode to which you are referring (according to the TZ Episode Guide) is "The Monsters are Due on Maple Street." That was one of my all-time favorite TZ episodes. Another one of my favorites is "The Obsolete Man." That one starred Burgess Meredith as a man sentenced to die for his "obsolete" belief in God. I think we're headed in that direction as well.