Keep your nose clean, citizen.. Article in the Sydney, Australia Morning Herald by Ritt Goldstein, a Connecticut man seeking asylum in Sweden because of physical attacks on him and threats to his life from members of law enforcement because of his involvement in an organization calling for civilian oversight of police. Goldstein says that the Bush administration's TIPS program—part of Bush's volunteer effort, Citizen Corps, "means the U.S. will have a higher percentage of citizen informants than the former East Germany through the infamous Stasi secret police. The program would use a minimum of 4 per cent of Americans to report 'suspicious activity'." ¶The informants—identified by stickers put in the windows of their vehicles with a toll-free number on them— would be initially drawn from people whose jobs give them a high level of access to others' personal lives—postal workers, meter readers, etc, and is a project of John Ashcroft's Department of Justice. ¶No word on whether the "suspicious activity" to be reported will include anti-American activities like negative comments about the administration while watching the evening news. [Sean Gallagher: the dot.communist]