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Anti-snitch movement gains steam
The Washington Times ^ | 3-29-06 | UPI

Posted on 03/29/2006 11:06:23 AM PST by JZelle

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Sickening!
1 posted on 03/29/2006 11:06:25 AM PST by JZelle
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It's called accessory to crime. Give these @$$hats the sentence that would have been given to the perp.

Let's see how long this evil fad lasts.


2 posted on 03/29/2006 11:10:14 AM PST by Killborn (Pres. Bush isn't Pres. Reagan. Then again, Pres. Regan isn't Pres. Washington. God bless them all.)
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Thirty years of law enforcement's war on the citizens and your average Joe six pack doesn't trust them anymore. Go figure.


3 posted on 03/29/2006 11:11:07 AM PST by SandfleaCSC ( “Alcohol may be man's worst enemy, but the bible says love your enemy.”)
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To: JZelle
I have the feeling that this is exaggerated.

Most police informants are criminals who will wind up doing time unless they give the police useful information.

People can wear all the "Stop Snitching" t-shirts they want, but when the cops say: "Look, pal, you're going upstate for 5 years unless you tell us who sold you the coke" they're saying who sold them the coke and they're leaving town.

4 posted on 03/29/2006 11:12:24 AM PST by wideawake
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law enforcement's war on the citizens

LOL!

Do you Black Bloc guys wear black panties to match your facemasks?

5 posted on 03/29/2006 11:13:32 AM PST by wideawake
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So we said in the 60's, "Hate Cops? The next time you get attacked on the street call a Hippie."

Yes, this is a great idea until you're the one being attacked then having a witness to back you in court is a good idea.

So this shirt is worn by college professors -- not surprising -- either.


6 posted on 03/29/2006 11:13:59 AM PST by BeAllYouCanBe (Animal Rights Activist Advisory: No French Person Was Injured In The Writing Of This Post)
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I think the guy has a point. People view LEO a lot differently than they did 30 years ago and it has an impact on how much people cooperate and respect them. Police themselves are to blame for a lot of this.


7 posted on 03/29/2006 11:17:44 AM PST by paul51 (11 September 2001 - Never forget)
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One of the cleaning girls in our office building used to wear one of these. I had no idea what it meant.

In retrospect, I'm not that surprised. Her company's contract got yanked.
8 posted on 03/29/2006 11:18:26 AM PST by Antoninus (The only reason you're alive today is because your parents were pro-life.)
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" "There's such animosity toward the police in some urban communities that even people who aren't afraid, and who hate crime, still feel cooperating is something good people don't do," Kennedy told the newspaper."


I don't think is is about joe sixpack, I think this is more a symptom of racial teachings to non whites.


9 posted on 03/29/2006 11:18:34 AM PST by ansel12
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Let's see how long this evil fad lasts.

This evil fad started about 30 seconds after the first policeman was hired...

Police have always had problems finding witnesses to crime, this is just a marketing gimmick for rappers and t-shirt vendors.

10 posted on 03/29/2006 11:24:18 AM PST by cryptical (Who you tryin' to get crazy with ese? Don't you know I'm loco?)
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It's called omerta, and it worked very well for the Mafia.
Until the bosses started ignoring the other end of the deal, which was you take care of the family of the person that was not snitching and got put in jail.
11 posted on 03/29/2006 11:25:26 AM PST by Just another Joe (Warning: FReeping can be addictive and helpful to your mental health)
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To: BeAllYouCanBe
"worn by a diverse group ranging from rap artists to college professors"

It doesn't surprise me, but I'm still appalled that anyone who claims to be educated would condone complicity with violent brutish thugs.

I wonder if college professors would stop wearing the shirts if someone explained to them that drug deals are ruthless capitalists and entrepreneurs (sarc)
12 posted on 03/29/2006 11:27:38 AM PST by az_illini (Don't cuff the invisible hand)
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Do you Black Bloc guys wear black panties to match your facemasks?

I know the language is English, but I can't fathom your post to save my life.
13 posted on 03/29/2006 11:28:57 AM PST by SandfleaCSC ( “Alcohol may be man's worst enemy, but the bible says love your enemy.”)
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deal = dealers


14 posted on 03/29/2006 11:30:14 AM PST by az_illini (Don't cuff the invisible hand)
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To: wideawake
"... LOL! Do you Black Bloc guys wear black panties to match your facemasks?"

I don't intend to defend the original poster you replied to, but I think you must be missing plenty of the 'Sorry, citizen. We thought you were someone else' accounts that appear here on FR regularly where rambunctious overzealous cops in tactical gear perform forced entries on an innocent person's house.

Happens all the time, you know. Some people are even killed.

I, for one, am not willing to risk these mistaken no-knock raids at the expense of catching someone with cocaine. Incidents like these have a way of making honest people clam up when dealing with the police. Maybe you can understand that.

15 posted on 03/29/2006 11:30:49 AM PST by The KG9 Kid (Semper Fi!)
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Police themselves are to blame for a lot of this.

I think the consensual crime laws and their enforcement are a lot to blame. It's hard to respect the man who breaks down grandma and grandpa's door and puts them in the hospital because he wasn't sure where the informant said the drugs were (was in a thread a few days back).

16 posted on 03/29/2006 11:32:38 AM PST by antiRepublicrat
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http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2006-03-28-stop-snitching_x.htm

Aren't African-Americans amazing?


17 posted on 03/29/2006 11:34:35 AM PST by Mogengator (That government is best which governs least. --Thomas Paine)
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I'm witchoo.


18 posted on 03/29/2006 11:38:22 AM PST by karnage
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A lot, perhaps most, people do not want to testify in Court about anything. When I was a prosecutor, almost everyone had an excuse or a conflict. It had nothing to do with politics. Usually, they were just lazy or did not want to miss work to perform their civic duty. I just hit everyone with a subpoena and, if they squawked, I told them if they did not show I would have them arrested.


19 posted on 03/29/2006 11:46:37 AM PST by Airborne1986 (Well, you can do what you want to us. But we're not going to sit here while you badmouth the U.S.A.)
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To: wideawake
Most police informants are criminals who will wind up doing time unless they give the police useful information.

Unfortunately there are too many cases where the informants keep giving information when they no longer have any valid information to give. There have been too many cases of innocent people suffering "dynamic entries" and arrests because some crook had to keep "naming names" or he'd end up behind bars.

20 posted on 03/29/2006 11:46:41 AM PST by JoeFromSidney (My book is out. Read excerpts at www.thejusticecooperative.com)
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