It starts out reporting "dog fighting" for cash rewards. Then it's cash prizes for reporting your neighbors "domestic disputes". Before you know it, people are being paid to report that you disagree with the government's support of the Israeli occupation.$5,000 REWARD Report Anti-Semites!
Guilty Before Proven Innocent
How police harassment, jailhouse snitches, and a runaway war on drugs imprisoned an innocent family
Professional Prison Snitch RingI recommend this recent feature article in Reason Magazine by Radley Balko, entitled Guilty Before Proven Innocent. It tells the mind-blowing story of an innocent family in Louisiana, Ann Colomb and her three sons, who were wrongfully convicted of drug trafficking based on the testimony of numerous prison snitches. The informants were part of an information-selling network inside the federal prison, in which inmates purchased files and photographs to help them fabricate testimony which they then marketed to prosecutors in order to get sentence reductions. A bunch of inmates got hold of the Colomb file, and told prosecutors that they would testify against the family. If it werent for a few chance encounters that revealed the scam, the Colomb family would still be in federal prison. - Radley Balko
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Story out of Britain about a new program to allow everybody to hook up the closed circuit television cameras in stores and report to the cops any crimes they see. Kind of a like a digital neighborhood watch, or the beginning of the age of Big Brother.
Do an internet search on it, I'm sure you'll find an interesting read.
Oh Shitttt ... wow Big Man.
Damn.
Figures.
They call it the Pan Optic Age.
The All Seeing.
Under the pretense of safety and protection, nothing is private.
Privacy is 60% of not being a slave.
Yep they announced it on Wednesday. They were talking about it on radio this week but most people are oppossed to it. Now even students get paid to report if they're unhappy with the way a lecturer has taught a particular course - not sure if its nationwide but it is at my ui as its standard for all affiliates of Uni of London.
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