VLVL2 (3): The Snitch System (part 1)

[Terrance]

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/snitch/

"After God had finished a rattlesnake, the toad, and the vampire, He had
some awful substance left with which He made a scab.
A scab is a two-legged animal with a corkscrew soul, a water brain, a
combination backbone of jelly and glue. Where others have hearts, he
carries a tumor of rotten principles. When a scab starts coming down the
street, men turn their backs, angels weep in Heaven and the Devil shuts
the gates of Hell to keep him out.
No man has a right to scab so long as there is a pool to drown his
carcass in or a rope long enough to hang his body with. Judas was a
gentleman compared with a scab. For betraying his Master, he had the
character to hang himself. A scab has not.
Esau sold his birthright for a mess of pottage. Judas sold his Savior
for thirty pieces of silver. Benedict Arnold sold his country for a
promise of a commission in the British Army. The scab sells his
birthright, his country, his wife, his children, and his fellow man for
an unfulfilled promise from his employer. Esau was a traitor to himself,
Judas was a traitor to God, Benedict Arnold was a traitor to his own
country; a scab is a traitor to his God, to his country, to his family,
and to his class"


-- Jack London