Snitch culture : how citizens are turned into the eyes and ears of the state /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Redden, Jim
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Venice, Calif. : Feral House, [2000]
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Living in the surveillance society
  • Pt. 1. Big brother in the 21st Century: Instruments of destruction, Choice of evils, 24/7 surveillance, The digital snitch, Corporate origins of the snitch culture, Uncle Sam wants you...to snitch, The federal intelligence infrastructure, Private intelligence networks, Mass media propaganda
  • pt. 2. The national security surveillance state: America's war on you, Domestic deniability, What did they know, and when did they know it?, Punishing whistleblowers, Brave new schools
  • pt. 3. The shape of things to come: Infiltrating the anarchists, The coming global snitch culture, Stopping snitch abuse
  • pt. 4. Case studies: The real legacy of McCarthyism, COINTELPRO abuses, The third wave experiment, The new ghetto informant program, The asset forfeiture money machine, The ADL spy scandal, The Project Megiddo fiasco, The Italian and Russian mafia, Infowar is declared, Gun control snitch strategies--Appendix: Guide for items appearing online, on the Feral House website.