I hear that the person being reported gets a brand new tin foil hat (though I doubt CdC needs any more). This will protect you from the Obamawaves from his messiah-like brain. You can actually see Obamawaves in his logo - they transmit in the red-state-red end of the spectrum and they will make you paranoid. This is 100% true - I read it on World Net Daily.
The Bush administration also encouraged people to report their neighbours for suspicious activity, like praying to a different god than you, or having a tan and a beard.
Roosevelt's administration wanted to know about anybody with squinty eyes who ate a lot of rice.
And then there were the communist witch-hunts and witch witch-hunts (1600s in Salem).
People are basically afraid of what they don't understand, and most people don't understand all that much.
Steve