I was ratted by a "concerned citizen" who had mulitiple arrests that included grand larson. He was concerned about doing more time for another crime. He was a friend of a person that knew him a long time and thought he could be trusted. I got all his information on my own and he and his probation officer know it. A later search found his criminal record wiped clean in both maine and florida (about a yr. later). Hmmm.... He knew little about my hydro grow and fabricated 90% of what he said. It does'nt take much anymore. This is no longer a free society for you and I.
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The way snitches and CIs are used in modern criminal justice is sickening. It is disturbing that accomplice testimony must be corroborated, but snitches are just "trusted". It should definitely be the other way around. Many people don't understand that the war on drugs affects everyone, whether you use, sell or do neither. It has basically taken the presumption of innocence out back and beaten it to near death. Catherine Austin Fitts's essay, "Narcodollars for beginners" in Under the Influence is a great primer on how this happens.

I wonder why it doesn't seem strange to ordinary citizens that our government and police departments routinely do all the things we used to sneer at Eastern European Dictatorships for.