The New Stasi
By Mitch Berg
Last week, it was Governor Walz’s snitch line, urging MInnesotans to rat out people violating the nebulous and ill-defined shutdown restrictions.
This week? The “insta-hatecrime line!”:
When this epidemic is over, we’re going to have to have a serious discussion about civil liberty.
April 12th, 2020 at 5:57 pm
The citizen guardian may have been trying to live up to a family tradition; perhaps it was her grandmother that called the Gestapo about Anne Frank’s family.
April 13th, 2020 at 11:00 am
[…] presence of anonymous “snitch lines” – and especially “hate crime” lines, may not have led to any Fourth Amendment perversions of probable cause yet – but don’t […]