Saturday, August 01, 2009

The Plantation Turns Citizens Into Informants

A privately-run informant program operating nationwide encourages Americans to anonymously turn each other in to the authorities for cash rewards in a chilling echo of the Nazi “denunciations” of 1930’s Germany, where neighbors would grass their neighbors up to the local Gestapo officer over petty issues.

The WeTip organization takes anonymous tips online or via toll free phone lines and carries the creepy slogan “For A Safer America!” on its website beneath an image of a U.S. flag.

The group forwards tips given by the public to law enforcement authorities across the country, with no jurisdictional borders.

An Orwellian poster being plastered up across American towns and cities as part of a campaign run by the organization reads, “ILLEGAL ACTIVITY IS NOT TOLERATED” and advises citizens to “turn them in” and receive a reward of up to $1000. Things to “turn them in” for include drug dealing and theft, but more vague examples such as “threats and intimidation” as well as “weapons” and “gang activity” are listed, as is “child abuse”.

2 comments:

CNu said...

so name names DV.

who sits on their board of directors?

what are their finances and funding sources?

what's the point of knowing of their existence if you don't go the step of actually helping us to know anything useful about them?

Big Man said...

Check this out:


http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/07/having-children-brings-high-carbon-impact/?hp