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TRUE ANON TRUTH FEED

Episode 141: Snitch City

TRUE ANON TRUTH FEED

TrueAnon

Politics, News

4.53.6K Ratings

🗓️ 5 March 2021

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

We’re joined by authors and educators Aaron Leonard and Connor Gallagher, coauthors of Heavy Radicals, A Threat of the First Magnitude, and the Folksinger and the Bureau. We take a closer examination on the assassination of Fred Hampton, operational differences between the FBI & the police, and what we can learn from it.

Music by Kyle Dixon

A Threat of the First Magnitude  

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0:00.0

Do you think co-intel pro was like something you graduated to?

0:40.1

Like you weren't pro yet? You're co-intel amateur? Yeah. Yeah, I mean. Junior varsity. Here's the thing. You start in high school, you know, you try to make the team. You start snitching on your fucking be like, listen, I saw him cheating on the test earlier. Like, you know, I think she's been late. I don't think, I don't think actually Jimmy's actually sick today. You know, and then you graduate and, you know, you start buying dime bags of fucking Coke and then, you know, you call the cops and you're like, please arrest this guy. And they're like, that's too far. I don't know where hemlock is. And then eventually,

0:44.7

you know, you work your way up a little. You start snitching more and more. And yeah, you can make the professionals. Absolutely. Do you think that that still exists now? What's your take?

0:50.3

Snitching? No, not snitching. Like a Cointel Pro like program.

0:55.6

Yeah, well, I mean, I think, I think it's kind of like in the way that we were talking

0:58.7

about earlier this morning is that like, yeah, absolutely, yeah.

1:04.3

But also like just the fact it's the fact that everyone just uses the internet and like

1:08.9

their cell phones all the time.

1:10.1

It's like you are always on a tapped line.

1:13.0

And so like a lot of the work is basically like it can be automated.

1:16.7

But like I mean, do I think that like are like tensions exploited and stuff like,

1:22.1

you know, poison letters written all that kind of stuff?

1:24.2

I mean, probably to some extent, but like also people who are involved in radical politics in America

1:30.4

are so mentally fucking insane

1:32.7

that, like, you can just wait till someone reveals

1:35.8

that they have like an adult baby loving fetish or whatever,

1:38.7

and you're good.

1:40.7

Jeffrey Epstein.

1:45.2

Is he's going to show of Jeffrey Epstein. Hello again, Lizzie. Hello again, Liz.

2:05.1

Hey.

2:06.7

What?

2:07.4

You don't like this?

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