SNITCH CULTURE
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Snitch Culture
How Citizens are Turned into the Eyes and Ears of the State
by Jim Redden
Post-9/11 Edition with New Introduction
You can't trust anyone these days -- and it's no accident. Children turn their parents into the police on two-bit drug charges. Classmates tattle on one another to school officials. Friends rat each other out to the authorities. Political advocacy groups report suspected dissidents to the FBI. Employers hire undercover agents to spy on workers. Lawyers are forced to report clients who pay with cash to law enforcement agencies.
Welcome to Snitch Culture, a surveillance society far more insidious and pervasive than anything George Orwell ever imagined. Elected officials from both political parties have spent decades building a vast domestic intelligence network to track every man, woman and child.
Надо будет прочитать. Опять таки, Feral House, контора весьма замечательная.
Американский образ жизни пропитан стукачеством на всех уровнях. Дети стучат на родителей, студенты в университетах стучат на товарищей, если заметили, что они списывают на экзаменах. В своё время Берроуз написал вот что:
http://www.feralhouse.com/snitchculture.html
Snitch Culture
How Citizens are Turned into the Eyes and Ears of the State
by Jim Redden
Post-9/11 Edition with New Introduction
You can't trust anyone these days -- and it's no accident. Children turn their parents into the police on two-bit drug charges. Classmates tattle on one another to school officials. Friends rat each other out to the authorities. Political advocacy groups report suspected dissidents to the FBI. Employers hire undercover agents to spy on workers. Lawyers are forced to report clients who pay with cash to law enforcement agencies.
Welcome to Snitch Culture, a surveillance society far more insidious and pervasive than anything George Orwell ever imagined. Elected officials from both political parties have spent decades building a vast domestic intelligence network to track every man, woman and child.
Надо будет прочитать. Опять таки, Feral House, контора весьма замечательная.
Американский образ жизни пропитан стукачеством на всех уровнях. Дети стучат на родителей, студенты в университетах стучат на товарищей, если заметили, что они списывают на экзаменах. В своё время Берроуз написал вот что:
A nation of what? Stool pigeons? Informers? I like the Russian word for "informer": stukach. A word to be spit. Our pioneer ancestors would puke in their graves. (W.S. Burroughs, "Last Words")Всё это сейчас актуально, как никогда, на фоне "антитеррористических" мероприятий. Об этом я уже писал вот здесь.