tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post82935270458648729..comments2024-03-25T20:06:39.794-05:00Comments on Grits for Breakfast: Snitches in the News: Informant use at root of many scandalsGritsforbreakfasthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10152152869466958902noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-15486257816864604532008-08-31T09:40:00.000-05:002008-08-31T09:40:00.000-05:00Interesting piece, Scott.The use of "confidential ...Interesting piece, Scott.<BR/><BR/>The use of "confidential informants" to gin up criminal convictions is a permanent feature of the so-called justice system.<BR/><BR/>I don't have the stat readily available but if I'm not mistaken, greater than half of the Gitmo detainees are there on the word of a snitch...a pissed-off neighbor, political enemy or just someone out to make a buck.<BR/><BR/>Here, in the U.S., COINTELPRO (the FBI's antileftist disruption program) literally destroyed the Black Panther Party and American Indian Movement through the uses of snitches and paid provocateurs.<BR/><BR/>The Angola 3 in Louisiana were kept in solitary confinement for decades based on false testimony by a prison snitch. Geronimo Prat in Calif., 27 years in San Quentin prison, same thing -- a snitch put him there -- and the FBI knew he was hundreds of miles away at the time of the murder/robbery.<BR/><BR/>How's that for justice?!Antifascisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05421707682211445550noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-79305003089350987332008-08-29T12:04:00.000-05:002008-08-29T12:04:00.000-05:00Link correction:http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v98...Link correction:<BR/><BR/>http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v98/n546/a05.htmlDon Dicksonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15297382689845965952noreply@blogger.com