Apr. 14th, 2004

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Хорошая, похоже, книга:

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.
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The Onion восхитителен, как всегда.
New Negative Campaign Ads Blast Voters Directly

WASHINGTON, DC—In the latest round of political mudslinging, both John Kerry's and George W. Bush's election committees have replaced ads that focus on their opponents' shortcomings with ads that personally insult the voting public.

"The Bush people initiated this volley of negative ads, but we won't be lured into a reactive campaign against the Republicans," Kerry campaign manager Mary Beth Cahill said Monday. "It's time to redirect the cheap name-calling away from Bush and toward those Americans who might be idiotic enough to vote for him."

A controversial 30-second TV spot for Kerry that aired throughout the Midwest Monday blamed the country's ills not on Bush's policies, but on the "sheer stupidity" of America's voters.

"In the past four years, America's national debt has reached an all-time high," the ad's narrator said. "And who's responsible? You are. You're sitting there eating a big bowl of Fritos, watching TV, and getting fatter as the country goes to hell. You ought to be ashamed of yourself."
Читайте The Onion, пять раз в день. Там вся правда.
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Который раз уже слушаю альбом "Oar" Скипа Спенса, и не могу остановиться. Скип Спенс это типа Сид Баррет, Джонни Кэш и Подорожный, all rolled into one.

Спенс играл на барабанах в Jefferson Airplane и, впоследствии, на гитаре в Moby Grape. "Oar" (1969) это его единственная сольная пластинка, которую он записал через год после того, как его выпустили из психушки Bellevue. Питер Льюис, второй гитарист Moby Grape, решил как-то отвезти Спенса на ночь в монастырь, чтоб монахи типа провели над Спенсом сеанс экзорцизма. Но монахи практически моментально отправили их восвояси, при этом дав Льюису такое вот наставление: "не прикасайтесь к нему, не останавливайте машину и не поддавайтесь страху". Дальше Льюис рассказывает вот что: "halfway down the hill, Skippy started to snarl like a dog, and he came across the front seat and tried to strangle me. His hands were around my neck while I'm trying to drive down this windy little road. Soon as my fear started to subside, I got angry and then he'd get afraid and start whimpering. Then I heard voices telling me to stop the car and kill him. So now I'm turning into him. Then I got afraid, and he starts coming across the car at me again. It was the most insane thing I've ever been through".



Оно и понятно. "Вменяемый" человек таких песен не пишет, нет.
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