Snitch Culture : How Citizens Are Turned into the Eyes and Ears of the State

by Redden, Jim

• ISBN13: 9780922915637
• ISBN10: 0922915636
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-12-01
• Publisher: Consortium Book Sales & Dist

Summary

In this alarming expose, investigative journalist Jim Redden examines how snooping has become so much a part of American culture that it is practically a family value, encouraged on billboards, television, and even in classrooms. From employees hired to spy on their coworkers to doctors forced to disclose medical information, the U.S. has developed a chilling network for monitoring its citizens. Worst of all, the information gathered -- and widely disseminated -- is often unreliable, solicited from paid and anonymous informants.

Table of Contents

Introduction Living in the Surveillance Society	1	(6)
PART ONE Big Brother in the 21st Century	6	(92)
Instruments of Destruction	7	(7)
Choice of Evils	14	(12)
24/7 Surveillance	26	(13)
The Digital Snitch	39	(7)
Corporate Origins of the Snitch Culture	46	(8)
Uncle Sam Wants You...To Snitch	54	(6)
The Federal Intelligence Infrastructure	60	(14)
Private Intelligence Networks	74	(16)
Mass Media Propaganda	90	(8)
PART TWO The National Security Surveillance State	98	(47)
America's War on You	99	(8)
Domestic Deniability	107	(8)
What Did They Know, and When Did They Know It?	115	(11)
Punishing Whistleblowers	126	(7)
Brave New Schools	133	(12)
PART THREE The Shape of Things to Come	145	(29)
Infiltrating the Anarchists	146	(15)
The Coming Global Snitch Culture	161	(6)
Stopping Snitch Abuse	167	(7)
PART FOUR Case Studies	174	(61)
The Real Legacy of McCarthyism	175	(8)
COINTELPRO Abuses	183	(7)
The Third Wave Experiment	190	(3)
The New Ghetto Informant Program	193	(8)
The Asset Forfeiture Money Machine	201	(5)
The ADL Spy Scandal	206	(6)
The Project Megiddo Fiasco	212	(10)
The Italian and Russian Mafia	222	(4)
Infowar Is Declared	226	(6)
Gun Control Snitch Strategies	232	(3)
Appendix Guide for Items Appearing Online, on the Feral House Website, <www.feralhouse.com>	235