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Odoreida

(1,549 posts) Mon Jun 29, 2020, 08:16 PM Jun 2020

Right wing crazy uses public information to compile hit list

That's not how this right leaning site spins it, but I have no reason to assume the basic facts are being misrepresented.

Virginia Man Creates Snitch List of 1,200+ People Who Ratted on Citizens for Violating COVID-19 Edicts
https://bigleaguepolitics.com/virginia-man-creates-snitch-list-of-1200-people-who-ratted-on-citizens-for-violating-covid-19-edicts/

A resident of Forest, Va. has assembled a list of over 1,200 snitches who reported their neighbors for potential violations of the state’s COVID-19 lockdown.

Isaiah Knight compiled the list after filing a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request, which gave him the name of people who participated in the Soviet-style snitching campaign against their fellow man. He received information from the Virginia Department of Health (VDH) that 1,293 people made complaints to authorities.

“The short answer is I wanted to see how many people would rat out Anne Frank. And it’s essentially that,” Knight said.

“What you see on this list from the Department of Health is people’s businesses. You see a lot of people who are complaining about churches. And I just don’t think the government should be telling people whether or not they should be wearing a mask or not,” he added.

Knight does not plan to release the personal information of the snitches, but he wants potential snitches to know that mindlessly complying with government tyranny could have serious consequences.

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