New Blog on Snitching
Alexandra Natapoff is probably the leading academic expert in the country on the use of informants by law enforcement.
She just started a blog devoted to the issue. Well worth adding to your RSS feed if you're interested in criminal justice and drug policy.
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I hope there is a post about the White House snitch site.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/facts-are-stubborn-things/
I went to the snitching.org website but there are no RSS feed options displayed.
Too bad because it does look like it will be a good resource.
Reported to Whitehouse.gov for being unpatriotic and evil not a viable learning moment.
That's "teachable moment", hmm. Report immediately to the Ministry of Noggin Readjustment.
Opps, I'm having trouble transitioning from "evil axises" and "enemy combatants" to the gentler kinder "teaching moments," "hope," and "change."
This is worse than internet acronyms.
Where can I snitch on LoneWacko? I would like to make an anonymous tip about how he is harboring IllegalMexicans.
Not to fret, hmm, Newspeak is catching on. You'll submit to it soon enough. Just remember to ask for an extra shot of anaesthesia before they take the melon baller to your frontal lobes.
Dearest comrades:
As the dimmest sack of crap in elected office, even I still know enough about the health-care bill to tell you lobotomies are not considered elective surgery under the Obama reform plan.
Rest assured, once this corrective procedure is done, you will be as fuck-stupid as I am, but you won't be able to actually vote on the leagislation I vote on, and to boot you'll have to stand in line for a week to get that arm-severed-by-wheat-thresher wound looked at. My colleagues and I, however, will continue to have the best hangnail-care specialists on 24-hour call... at your expense.
Now, don't forget to eat healthy, and exercise. Don't make us come over to your house and force you.
Sincerely,
Sen. Chuck Schumer
(transcribed from crayon-on-wax-paper notes by Robert Gates' personal assistant, Wally the Intern)
Ha-ha, Schumer so stoopid, can't spell "legislation". Dur-hur!
Wait, someone's knocking at the doo
BLAM BLAM BLAM
"Stop or we'll shoo- oh, hell, did it again."
"Not to worry, Jim, soon we'll have all these teabaggin' rabble-rousers shoved into the train cars. Let's go grab a tofu burger."
Snitchin' is bitchin'
And when they came for the cosmotarians, I said, "He's next door. Take him away. Damn treasonous bastard!".
# must have government privileges; he posts date- and timelessly. Whoa.
Anybody can do that.# is just one of the legions of # wannabees
I wanna do it too! How-how-how-how-how-how-how-how-how-how-how-how-how-how-how-how-how-how-how-how-how-how-how-how-how-how-how-how-how-how-how-how-how-how-how-how-how-how-how-how-how-how-how-how-how-how-how-how-how-how-how-how-how-how-how-how-how-how-how-how-how?
As the dimmest sack of crap in elected office,
Dear Chuck,
I beg to differ with your claim to being the dimmest. Surely that honor must go either to myself or to Nancy Pelosi.
Love,
Harry.
Donnie Brasco put me off ever wanting to be an informant.
I can't get yahoo to recognize the site to add it. Does someone have the rss link they can send me?