Wanker announces Big Brother/Vast Machine "Become a Snitch" campaign

[mojowork_n]

No joke, there's a very, very large network of state, federal, municipal, private and semi-private agencies
that all want to encourage "citizen spying."

http://www.progressive.org/scott-walker-encourages-citizen-spying

Excerpt..... (The article has quite a lot of information. Great news source):

...Last week Walker’s fantasies turned to crime fighting as he launched Wisconsin’s “If You See Something, Say Something™” campaign. Flanked by Attorney General J. B. Van Hollen, Major General Don Dunbar of the Wisconsin National Guard and Betsy Markey, Assistant Secretary of Intergovernmental Affairs, Department of Homeland Security, Walker gave a rambling, folksy talk about the role of citizens in the important work of creating safe communities.

“Every day, not just in airports, but at sporting events, at the grocery store, picking up the kids from school, out at the park, at business or workplaces wherever that might be, day in and day out there are people here in Wisconsin that will run into something that makes them think, ‘You know, that’s just not right. There’s something a little unsettling about that.’ Through this campaign,” he said, “we’re telling the people of Wisconsin, if you see something, say something. It’s easy.”

Spying on your neighbor and projecting neurotic fears onto others has never been more convenient or rewarding!

In 2010 Dana Priest and William Arkin published Top Secret America for the Washington Post. The series of four meticulously researched articles revealed a sprawling network of 1,271 units of governmental agencies and 1,931 private companies or divisions within companies that make up a vast, disjointed and secretive domestic intelligence and homeland security world...

Edit to add second link. More on the same topic, here:

http://uppitywis.org/blogarticle/what-mainstream-media-havent-told-you-scott-walker-uses-federal

Apparently, implementing this program brings Federal money to the state. And unlike Federal money tied to, say, high speed rail, or alternative energy, it creates no new jobs but does allow state administrators to do.... who knows what?

[truebrit71]

1. This will get shut down when the phone lines get jammed reporting that there's a criminal..

...in the State mansion..

[Lefta Dissenter]

2. Yes,

Some of my friends started calling on the first day of the campaign. "I'd like to report a crime..."

I continue to tell the Gov about his crimes in writing every time I'm in the Capitol. Don't forget, they have notepaper for that purpose at the desk outside the Gov's office. Just ask the nice police officer who'll be sitting at the desk!

[midnight]

3. Spying on your neighbor and projecting neurotic fears onto others has never been more convenient or

rewarding... Isn't this illegal? If not, is it going to be challenged?