Moron Terror: The Threat Of A Snitch Society

• Posted on May 2, 2013
• by Clyde Lewis
• in Articles

MORON TERROR:
THE THREAT OF A SNITCH SOCIETY

Recently I have been researching the changes that are happening in our society and how quickly we are seeing the disintegration of our way of life because of concerns that are manufactured by the media with regards to the war on terror.
This country is being asked to allow the grip of the surveillance state to permeate every aspect of our lives. It seems that whenever we have spiking events such as what happened in Boston, a heightened awareness takes over and soon we begin to hear about all sorts of suspicious packages, suspicious people, and suspicious activities and it spreads like wildfire until we begin to wonder if everything that is happening around us is just plain suspicious.
I can sense that frustration with every e-mail I get and every tweet or Facebook comment that asks me if I am always this paranoid. Or they declare the obvious: that not everything that is happening is a conspiracy.
I always want to reply with a big duh.
I am also curious if the mainstream news agencies have to fend off e-mails or twitter a post asking them about their conspiracy yarns, and stories that we are supposed to believe and yet have a harder time of swallowing because we live in times of mistrust and manufactured crisis.
I had a discussion with a friend of mine about the so-called “hoax” theories that have been going viral on the internet regarding the bombings in Boston. Many people have gone to great lengths to try and convince everyone that the victims of amputation or blown off limbs are actors or even participants in elaborate drill – as if this is necessary to make it even more of a “false flag” event.
This type of information has aggravated the mainstream media, and in some cases has embarrassed the independent media because they of course get all of the blame for these opinions even though they may or may not encourage this type of journalism.
I remember I received a phone call from a listener who wanted to point out his disgust about the faking of the Boston bombing and while I questioned the motive of faking such an endeavor and asked questions of the caller, I received e-mails from listeners that stated that they were going to tell their respective stations to pull me off the air because they felt that I was condoning this theory by airing it. In other words, the listener didn’t like the conversation so they felt it necessary to be the guardian of morality and standards and tell the station programmers that my show was speaking out of turn and that I was pushing an agenda that was un-American.
I am beginning to see a trend that we are becoming a “snitch” or “informant” society, a trend that always happens when a society is afraid of itself.
The snitch society is a byproduct of a nation that has been told what to think and that unpopular speech needs to be silenced because it is uncomfortable.
The snitch believes that what they do is for the betterment of all, and quite literally are unaware that what they are doing is allowing the informant surveillance apparatus to grow and soon it will create a culture that will be afraid speak up about what they see and hear for fear that they may be labeled as seditionists, traitors or worse.
While the idea of reporting true crimes and suspicious activity is part of being vigilant, being a person who is constantly reporting or informing authorities on things of minimal importance is the weapon of choice of the police state.
We have been told by Homeland Security that if we see something to say something. This, of course, is being encouraged as a preventative method of stopping criminal activity in progress.
However, obeying the law does not protect anyone from an informant that wishes to lie in order to destroy someone. Informants have frequently been known to set people up, tricking them into breaking the law.
We are now hearing about the lies that have been told about the bombing suspects in Boston. Some of those lies have been exposed by the mainstream media; but in the age of information, bad news travels faster and even if the news is false there is still a huge number of people that will believe it because of circumstantial stories or furthered rumor that has been known to destroy lives in the court of public opinion.
“Florida House and Senate budget leaders have awarded Palm Beach County Sheriff Ric Bradshaw $1 million for a new violence prevention unit aimed at preventing tragedies like those in Newtown, Conn., and Aurora, Colo., from occurring on his watch.”
“Bradshaw plans to use the extra $1 million to launch “prevention intervention” units featuring specially trained deputies, mental health professionals and caseworkers. The teams will respond to citizen phone calls to a 24-hour hotline with a knock on the door and a referral to services, if needed.”
“The goal will be avoiding crime — and making sure law enforcement knows about potential powder kegs before tragedies occur, Bradshaw said. But the earmark, which is a one-time-only funding provision, provoked a debate Monday among mental health advocates and providers about the balance between civil liberties, privacy and protecting the public.”
Their concerns are warranted as the idea of a paid informant network raises ghosts of McCarthyism or sounds a lot like the Stasi police in the former Communist East Germany.
“Bradshaw is readying a hotline and is planning public service announcements to encourage local citizens to report their neighbors, friends or family members if they fear they could harm themselves or others.”
Bradshaw acknowledged the risk that anyone in a messy divorce or in a dispute with a neighbor could abuse the hotline. But, he said, he’s confident that his trained professionals will know how to sort out fact from fiction.
Do we really want to be living in a society of informants that can be paid or get special treatment by the government, sending innocent people to jail or is it necessary to see people being harangued, losing their jobs, thrown out of their homes, losing their children and families because of an out of control information society?
We have been programmed to video record, eavesdrop, track, and watch our neighbors instead of getting to know them, inviting them over to talk, or to even know what they do for work.
Reality shows like ‘Survivor‘ and ‘Big Brother‘ demonstrate that the monitoring and observation of people can actually tell you a lot about their character. The people who watch see how human behavior can turn under stressful situations which then triggers the attitude of banishment and punishment because the people in the situation are no longer human beings, but entertaining simulations that can be voted off or told to go away without even understanding why they react the way they do. We somehow have this notion that snitching or banishing that which is uncomfortable will only deliver humiliation and that it will be enough.
However, this is not the case. Much of what is happening in the country – where instantaneous removal through lies and exaggeration or by demand for entitlement – leaves many people unhappy, depressed and feeling as though they don’t belong.
Isn’t that what shows like ‘American Idol‘ do for the world? Exploit people with dreams of becoming stars only to be told that they are worthless or are voted away and forgotten about because they don’t perform to the expectations that we have for them?
What could be the repercussions for such harmless activity?
America’s suicide rate has increased markedly over the past decade for middle aged Americans. The biggest jump has occurred among white Americans, whose suicide rate per 100,000 population rose from 15.9 in 1999 to 22.3 in 2010.
About 57 percent of suicides in America occur between the ages of 35 and 64. The suicide rate jumped in 39 out of the 50 states, and it increased most in the Western United States.
The most popular form of suicide among the middle aged remains guns, but replacing drug overdose in second place is hanging.
Statistics are actually saying that the economy may be to blame; however I would actually theorize that the increase in suicides can be attributed to the cruelty of American life.

There was a special about bullying on the Cartoon Network that I watched with my fiancé’s son. What I found most interesting is how bullying is happening in the school system because students are being encouraged to tell on other students. We forget that one of the best ways to stop a bully is to actually take care of it yourself. If that doesn’t work, then asking an adult to help of course is warranted.            


In 2010, a secret ballot was sent to students to rank certain students as bullies. Students at The Wire Village School in Spencer, Massachusetts were asked to rank students they thought were bullies in a survey distributed by the school at the request of the principal. Danielle L. Gebo a mother of one of the students on the “bully list” said she was surprised to hear from the school principal that her son, Thomas J. Gebo, a sixth-grader, ranked in the top six students known for bullying classmates, and that he would be punished because other students had voted for him in a bullying survey conducted in his grade.
Kids are now being taught that it is far nobler to rat out someone than to take care of the problem themselves. Then the bullying takes on a whole new meaning when adults come after a child that has been ranked by a secret ballot as bully.
This begs the question: Who is bullying who?
When the gun control issue was being brought up as a push button issue because of the Sandy Hook shooting, there were many gun owners that demanded that there be an investigation into whether or not the alleged shooter Adam Lanza was on SSRI’s or some other drug.
This was a frightening action because it was creating an air of a “witch hunt” mentality demanding accountability from gun owners that may be using drugs to alleviate depression or even ‘post traumatic stress disorder’.
This gave the government the go ahead to employ another part of the snitch society and that is the removal of patient/doctor confidentiality.
The medical surveillance necessity is now being reinforced through public service announcements and commercials that speak of new technologies that connect patients with databases in order to give them convenience.
Many people are now comfortable with the idea that their personal information is now available with a keystroke that opens your file that is linked to a massive system of computer databases maintained and monitored by government agencies, law enforcement officials, for-profit businesses and private intelligence networks.
All the information about your medical, psychiatric, drug intake, TV viewing, credit and banking are all cross referenced to companies that will go out of their way to prevent you from getting a place to live, a car to drive, a gun for protection, drugs for pain even food to eat because of some “flag” or “glitch” that tells them that you are a risk and not worth dealing with.
How many of us have wanted so badly to get back on our feet only to be told “sorry” because of some computer entry that says you are unworthy to proceed because of a credit misunderstanding or a time in your life when you were down on your luck or made bad decisions?
The irony is that many of the same people that tell you “sorry” are doing so because they have the power to do it, and also the power to report you if you try too many times to better yourself and they too have been told “sorry” as well.
It is a sadistic world when you live in a society where certain people do not want to give anyone a break because they too are being bullied, ratted out or snitched on. It is even a peculiar feeling to know that all of you information can be seen by a total stranger who can judge you, banish you and report you if they feel like it.
In a snitch society, people will report all sorts of things only because they feel that it is their duty to be the moral guardian in a word that they decide is immoral. The informant is always someone you thought you could trust, and when the snitching and reporting begins we begin to see an increase in responses by federal, state and local authorities.
We begin to see unannounced visits from child care services. We receive notices from our doctors to meet with mental health specialists. There are those unfortunate souls that are refused certain drugs because someone has flagged them as seekers. We wonder why our neighbor has been gunned down in his drive way by heavily-armed SWAT units when we always knew him to friendly and kind. Then we hear that he was the victim of a mistaken drug informant.
Governments have spent billions of dollars in recent years militarizing local police departments across the country and creating special federal units with overwhelming firepower. They are all ready and waiting for an informant to send them on their next mission.
You may be their target and you always thought that they would leave you alone because you never break the law.
In a society driven by manufactured mass paranoia, personal betrayal is seen as a virtue instead of the lowest form of human behavior. This perverse version of reality has been an excellent tool in dirty wars created to bring a society into dystopia.