| Frank Slootweg 2004-11-23, 2:53 am |
| a-scared!"
* "1984", author George Orwell, 1949, ISBN 0-679-41739-7
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* Hardly a week passed in which the Times did not carry a paragraph
* describing how some eavesdropping little sneak --- 'child hero' was
* the phrase generally used --- had overheard some compromising remark
* and denounced his parents to the Thought Police.
# "The Emperor Wears No Clothes", by Jack Herer, 1992, ISBN 1-878125-00-1
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# The Police-taught DARE program encourages students to turn in
# friends and family by becoming a police informant.
: Real life: a child in school answers the friendly and inquiring police
: officer teaching about drug dangers that yes their parents have some
: of the displayed paraphernalia.
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: A search warrant is issued, the parents are arrested, and
: the child is put into custody of Child Welfare workers.
# "The Feds Under Our Beds", By James Bovard, The New York Times, 9/6/1995
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# The Justice Department confiscated the home of an elderly Cuban-American
# couple in Miami after the couple was arrested for playing host to a weekly
# poker game for family and friends.
* "Nynex Mistake Brings Scholarship Offer", NYT, 4/26/1995
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* Walter Ray Hill, 18, was arrested and jailed for two days based solely on
* his phone number being used for a hoax bomb threat.
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* Nynex eventually realized one of its employees transposed a number when
* tracing the call. [Ever see Terry Gilliam's movie Brazil?]
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