Turn in your neighbor program “going well”.

(Spring Creek Mesa – Colorado – January 10, 2015)
A pilot Security Task Strategy (STS), new to the Western Slope, is succeeding say authorities here. The pseudo-controversial “turn in you neighbor” program, instituted just last July, has already netted 200 arrests and the detainment of another 1000 suspects, bringing a slew of brand new criminals into police data files.
“We are making great strides in the family quarter where children have been encouraged to snitch on their parents,” said an anonymous spokesperson for a glut of law enforcement agencies. “Someday we’ll see leagues of these little patriots willing to betray family and friends for the betterment of the compliant.”
The control model follows the patterns developed in totalitarian scenarios all over the world. It allows informers to “keep their hands clean” and remain unidentified even when the most outlandish accusations are on the table. Sometimes financial rewards are in the mix as well.
“If our cruiser charts indicate anything, it is that people seek to be controlled, to be told what to do,” said Dr. Edward Despot, professor of autocratic philosophy at Police State College of Shavano. “The system can show leniency to one who stands firmly on the good guys.”
It comes as a surprise how eager many persons are to disregard the petty loyalties and embrace a system that keeps them safe in their homes after dark.
“It would be like me telling you we just arrested the House of Representatives for violating the Georgia sodomy law, which was recently upheld by the Supremes & Their Quart,” said Despot. “Kind of like getting caught in your own possum trap. Kind of like stepping in it, heh?”
Detractors and people who resist what they call “heavy-handed manipulation by the authorities” disagree.
“A strong analogy emerges,” they contend, “when we look at citizens who require state and federal assistance just to survive, due to limited choices and slave wages paid by highly profitable corporations. Who do you think subsidizes these immoral acts that go on in our sacred plutocracy? We arrest the poor, play plea bargain games, put them in jail and then parole them all on the taxpayer’s tab.”
“Why do we, as a society, need policing?” Despot asked. “Because we are all part of the criminal element and chaos would loom without control. There will always be the malcontents that say the system is rotten. Let them get their own system,” he quipped.
“With the termination of debtor’s prison and the workhouse there is no longer profit in busting the indigent. Even our federal benefactors know that. If we want to continue earning big black pickups and assault vehicles we had better locate and harass the uncooperative and those tangled up in the quicksand of personal freedoms,” said the professor.
– Kashmir Horseshoe