Head Rush: Everbody's a Gladys Kravitz and Barney Fife

July 31, 2002

Everbody's a Gladys Kravitz and Barney Fife

Everbody's a Gladys Kravitz and Barney Fife
A funny viewpoint from a UPS driver on the Justice department's and Bush administration's proposed Terrorism Information and Prevention System (Operation TIPS). This is the bright idea where utility workers and delivery drivers are to report on any suspicious activity they notice during their daily jobs.
Call me crazy but isn't "suspicious activity" a bit too subjective? Who's to say what is odd behavior and what isn't? So, someone gets packages from a certain place all the time... How is knowing this going to stop terrorism? Any schmo can waltz into Walmart, buy a few thousand rounds, and walk out and blow away a few dozen people. And the phone repair guy could not have prevented it.
My next door neighbor is a UPS driver, and he's one of the oddest and yet nicest people I know. He's aslo in the Naval reserves and presently on active duty, so he's really Pro-American, Anti-terrorist these days. Does this mean he's going to have his window blinds lifted ever so slightly to see what high-tech gadget I bought this week? Please.
Asking people to spy on each other is asking for trouble. I guess no one in the JD remembers a certain man named Joesph McCarthy and the havoc he wreaked and the lives he ruined.
There are better ways to prevent terrorism in this country. I think we need to start with our foreign policies and change how we are perceived abroad before we have everyone in this country turning on each other.
What the hell are these guys thinking, anyway? For the past 10 months everyone has been afraid to criticize the White House and the government for fear of sounding ant-American. Well, I think it's OK to start bitching and moaning again.

Posted by LA at July 31, 2002 12:26 PM

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