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3/11/2008 - Snitch

This country is sinking ever lower. Apparently it has become perfectly decent behavior to just call the authorities on people you think do something wrong. Of course, if you know someone is a lowlife pedophile who preys on children, your own children might depend on your going to the cops, but the people most affected by the tale telling I am talking about here are pensioners. We too have old age benefits, and here too it's not quite enough. If you live alone you receive more money, than if you live together with a partner, and some people simply don't tell anyone when they do move in together. Sure, it's against the law but calling the authorities behind someone's back over this... If the authorities don't know about this with all the surveillance measures at their disposal, they don't deserve to know.

It doesn't stop there though. We have snitch hotlines for lots of things, and people are actually using them. Of course there are a few that really do matter, like the ones for reporting animal abuse, child abuse (lives depend on those), but most of these are for things that really don't need any kind of anonimity.

Why, if you suspect someone of illegally copying software, shouldn't you just go to the police, and have them file your name when you report the offense? If you call the hotline you simply name the company and tell what they're doing, and they'll have the copyright gestapo on their backs. Of course copyrights should be protected, but any organization who jump with such force at anonymous tips can only be likened to the Gestapo.

Anonimity also offers the opportunity to file false reports, which are then investigated. That costs time which could have been used to investigate real crimes, while innocent people do get in trouble. Take divorced parents for instance who can easily have the cops sent to each other. Kids are taken away during the investigation. Neighbors see this and start to talk, etc... I could name other examples.

We do have a horrible precedent in this country. In World War II the country that relatively gave away most Jewish people to the Germans was mine.

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