Jim Redden watches the watchers
Snitch Culture: jim redden watches the watchers
by Cletus Nelson (cletus@disinfo.net) – June. 02, 2001
Mass movements make extensive use of suspicion in their machinery of domination,” remarks Eric Hoffer in The True Believer (New York: Harper and Row, 1951), his seminal study of religious and political fanaticism.
If the drive toward a Global State can be similarly perceived as a dynamic social force, the ascendancy of the snitch in contemporary America exemplifies this pernicious trend. Although the framers of the Constitution presciently granted the accused the right to “be confronted with the witnesses against him,” the pernicious doctrine of universal suspicion has long eroded this vital safeguard and elevated a once dishonorable act into a thriving cottage industry.
This unsettling phenomenon provides the basis for Snitch Culture: How Citizens Are Turned Into the Eye and Ears of the State (Los Angeles: Feral House, 2001), an explosive new book by veteran journalist Jim Redden which unflinchingly documents our emergent cult of betrayal.
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