Those committees of elderly women with bound feet were known as the KGB with tiny feet. They padded about to report their neighbors for having too many children or a dirty house or harboring capitalist roaders. Your Customer isn t intended to support a Communist Party program. This is a sure sign that the government is on the wrong track. In a free society, there s no need to turn private businesses into spy agencies.
Most laws are self-reporting.
There s no need to force bankers, grocers or neighbors to report that kind of behavior, or to threaten them with the forfeiture of their property if they don t. Using neighbors or private businesses as spies is a sure sign that the state has departed from the central job it is supposed to perform protecting our liberties and rights. Government Abuses of Information Government cannot be trusted with the power to collect complex and private facts about our lives without a showing of probable cause. In 1995 over 500 Internal Revenue Service agents were caught illegally snooping through tax records of thousands of Americans, including personal friends and celebrities. Only five employees were fired for this misconduct.