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Is this serious? I find it very hard to believe, as reported here.
What would be the point? What would they do with the info? There's no ordinance against such speech.
If true, it is over-reaching.
Wow, 6 sentences, 3 of them were questioning the validity of the ballot. I posted the source, check it out for yourself.
And in the future you can just call me a liar once in your comment, I'll get you point, you don't have to fill half your comment with such accusations.
I didn't know that Boulder CO was apart of the ex-Soviet Union.What the Boulder City council has done is made speech a crime,they are clearly in violation of the Constitution and must be stopped.What's next a hotline to report people who are having sex out of marriage?
Let me guess... It was written in Hebrew, perhaps? 
it will certainly keep people like herzog out of the neighborhood
seriously though, I thought that's what you right wing nazicrats wanted... don't you approve of what is happending in USA?
or do you object only when it applies to you?
by LCD on Mon May 15, 06 9:55am
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" seriously though, I thought that's what you right wing nazicrats wanted... don't you approve of what is happending in USA?"
You seem to be ignoring Libertarian right wingers entirely, as usual. We don't love the Patriot Act! Anyway, I thought this was what you left-wing red Fidelistas were pining after: complete muzzles on "hate speech," just as they have in some of the less enlightened corners of the E.U. One needn't call for violence or threaten or harass anyone, just make a statement that's defined as "insensitive" by a standard that, as a legal document, can be perpetually changed to suit the current needs of the governing Politburo.
I'd think you Berkeley-ite Khmer Rouge would be downright orgasmic over this development...
It's amazing, for all the cries of fascism from the left everytime a terrorist is thrown in jail, they seem to love censorship and soviet style informant programs.
What the hell are you talking about _Beelzebubba?
If a comment offends you, put your fingers in your ears.
Oooooops!!!! Looks like, once again, the premise of the ballot is wrong. This isn't a hotline for reporting on your neighbor, it's a counseling hotline.
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City Councilman Andy Schult...may endorse funding for the hotline....
"It can be a useful tool if some dangers can be avoided," he said.
Schultheiss said the hate hotline shouldn't be run by the city, nor should it be used to initiate a formal charge against anyone.
"It's a way for people who've experienced the kind of behavior we're trying to address to tell someone about it and receive counseling, have someone in their corner.
"It's not like this would be a hotline to the police. That's the kind of thing that would make matters worse, not better. The only way to deal with racial issues in the city is to expose them, and this can do that," Schultheiss said. "But it's not a way to tattle on your neighbors and get them in trouble." (Rocky Mtn. News)
But there once was a proposal for a real spy-on-your neighbor hotline. Remember John Ashcroft's Operating TIPS?
From Business Week
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The government wants your cable guy, meter reader, even your postman to voluntarily report any and all suspicious information about you to a new, central FBI database. It's called Operation TIPS, short for the Terrorism Information & Prevention System. The goal is to give millions of American truckers, letter carriers, train conductors, ship captains, and utility employees a formal way to report suspicious activity.
A pilot phase, slated to begin later this summer, would initially recruit 1 million workers in 10 cities. The Teamsters Union has already signed on. The U.S. Postal Service, which originally said its 800,000 workers would not participate, is also encouraging its workforce to join.
SOWING SUSPICION. The idea is the brainchild of Attorney General John Ashcroft. But like many of Ashcroft's salvos in the war on terrorism, Operation TIPS will more than likely reduce privacy without increasing security.
Privacy-protection advocates allege that Operation TIPS is simply a way for the FBI to get into people's homes without a warrant. Before the police or FBI can search your residence, they need probable cause and an order from a judge. But you let the cable guy into your home voluntarily. And once you do that, you relinquish certain rights of privacy. Whatever the cable guy sees is fair game.
"This is an end run around the Fourth Amendment," warns Harvey Silverglate, a Boston civil liberties lawyer. "It's a way into every American's home without judicial oversight."
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Warrantless searches? No judicial oversight? Does that sound familiar?
Luckily, no less a pinko that Texan rightwinger, Dick Armey, wrote legislation prohibiting the government from deploying Bush's Big Brother scheme.
Forget about Tibet: FREE BOULDER!
More evidence that the apocalyse is upon us!
Does anyone really want to live in the society the far left would put us in? Reporting on your neighbors, codes on what is and is not acceptable to say, etc. Sounds like a nightmare to me.
^No, no. That's what Bush and John Ashcroft wanted to do with the TIPS program, and, by extension, with the NSA warrantless domestic surveillance scheme.
Our freedoms are seriously under attack by the Bush Gang: that is the number one threat. Nothing else even comes close. Persecuting leftists may make panty-waist neo-cons feel better about themselves, but it's totally disingenuous.
Can we make jokes about men from the Planet Ork?
Nano Nano. :)
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