The Nazi youth organisations eroded parents' authority and children's loyalties, though not nearly as much as the Soviet Union, which turned snitching into a patriotic duty and punished those who remained loyal to the regime's victims.
In Boston's South End the Irish gangster Frank Costello Jack Nicholsonn) reigns as the king of organized crime and stays one step ahead of the state police by inserting a snitch (Matt Damon) into the department.
They invited the rural people to turn into snitches, to turn into informers, to infiltrate popular organizations, to infiltrate the guerrillas.
For all its violence and road rage, "Snitch" doesn't disintegrate into noisy popcorn nonsense.
No matter how far from the big cities or small towns a person would venture, there was always was a risk of running into a snitch.
And instead of conducting a vigorous inquiry into the snitch program and the role of prosecutors in concealing it, she launched a narrower criminal investigation that purported to examine the role of wrongdoing by members of the sheriff's department.
Have someone throw something (the snitch) on a line into the pool at regular intervals.
So was Rush Limbaugh's claim that Obama's trying to turn doctors into "snitches," and Lou Dobbs' fearmongering about the president turning doctors into "an agent of the federal government".
Seekers chase the runner who has the snitch — a tennis ball — tucked into a sleeve attached to his shorts.
With hundreds of anonymous denunciations of illicit smoking pouring into a provincial "snitch" line, some businesses are responding with novel dodges.
