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In East Germany, they were called spitzels; in Soviet Russia, stukachi; in Communist Cuba, chivatos. Every unfortunate society saddled with a police state has scornfully labeled the citizen informants who play the most important role in enforcing conformity to the ruling elite's will. In the emerging post-9/l1 garrison state in America, a New Jersey-based pilot program would create a cadre of citizen-informants called "CAT Eyes."
Co-created by retired Air Force officer Mike Licata, ex-military SWAT officer Jason McClendon, and businessman Tony Elghossain, the Community Anti-Terrorism Training Institute is "an antiterrorist citizen informant program being adopted by local police departments throughout the East Coast and parts of the Midwest," reported the May 7th Boston Globe. The program's motto is a near-plagiarism of Orwell: "Watching America with Pride, Not Prejudice."
Licata explains that CAT Eyes is intended to be "a modern civil defense network" converting local neighborhood watch groups into an anti-terrorist surveillance network. Local CAT Eyes affiliates, "constantly watching for signs of terrorist activity in their ...