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Author Redden, Jim.

Title Snitch culture : how citizens are turned into the eyes and ears of the state / Jim Redden.

Imprint Los Angels, Calif. : Feral House, c2000.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  323.4482 R246s    ---  Available
Description ix, 235 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Contents The final crackdown -- Big brother in the 21st Century -- 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 -- The national security surveillance state. -- America's war on you -- Domestic deniability -- Punishing whistleblowers -- Infiltrating the anarchists -- The coming global snitch culture -- Stopping snitch abuse -- 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.
Summary Examines the pervasive use and abuse of informants and snitches in the United States.
Subject Historical sociology.
Culture -- History.
Social evolution -- History.
Human rights.
Privacy, Right of.
ISBN 0922915636 (pbk.)

 
    
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