Sunday, December 11, 2005  Is Grits Pro-Snitch?  A commenter
thought my criticisms of the whosarat database amounted to
personal support for snitching: "I'm guessing you want this
country to become another Nazi Germany? The Nazi's were good at
getting their public to rat and snitch out people."  The reason
I consider the "stop snitching" meme on t-shirts an ill advised
message isn't that I think criminals should tell on others for
reduced sentences -- it's that gangbangers and drug dealers are
busy equating "snitches" with all witnesses in popular culture,
as that particular commenter did when he announced that a "real"
snitch was "someone who selflessly observes others wrong doings
and reports them to authority for the sake of obeying the law."
Well, if you'd call that person a "snitch," then I don't support
a message of "stop snitching." I never would tell someone who
witnessed a violent crime, for example, not to report it. That's
why the guys wearing Stop Snitching t-shirts into court to
intimidate witnes