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   :   "The Police man put the gun to my head, I was very a-scared!"   
      
      
   *   "1984", author George Orwell, 1949, ISBN 0-679-41739-7   
   *   
   *   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   
   #   
   #   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.   
   :   
   :   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   
   #   
   #   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   
   *   
   *   Walter Ray Hill, 18, was arrested and jailed for two days based solely on   
   *   his phone number being used for a hoax bomb threat.   
   *   
   *   Nynex eventually realized one of its employees transposed a number when   
   *   tracing the call. [Ever see Terry Gilliam's movie Brazil?]   
   *   
   *   A Nynex spokesman said today tha   
      
      
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