Modern Authoritarian States
In the past (and even now) people had worry about concentration camps, or interrogation camps, now, thanks to Tony Blair, the good folks in the UK can start worrying about being sent to a local respect camp.
Neighbours from hell will be sent to boot camp
Outcast British families are to be thrown into “sin bins” till they learn how to behave in the community, according to the government.
Fifty-three Family Intervention Projects around the country will provide intensive social care for around 1,500 families a year. Some of them will be removed from their communities and housed in intensive units for round-the-clock-supervision under the government’s Respect agenda.
The Communities and Local Government department did not say whether it had plans to tackle the other side of the problem for marginalised families – the communities that marginalise them.
A report on six pilots of the scheme last year found that successful interventions were ones that, in effect, provided troubled families with a surrogate community: where care workers listened, did not judge the families or deal them authoritative ultimatums, but did challenge them honestly about their social discordance, or “anti-social” behaviour, as it’s called by Westminster.
This is part of the UK government Respect Task Force, with anti-social behaviour being defined in the UK as
‘acting in an anti-social manner as a manner that caused or was likely to cause harassment, alarm or distress to one or more persons not of the same household as the complainant’.
From the country that is fingerprinting every man woman and child in the country for a government database can the respect police be far behind?
Gaaaaahhh! Somebody please tell me those first two links were only satire! Please?
Och, goddamn but that Man, that horrid stupid Man cannot go soon enough.
Thank you so much, stageleft, for this catch. I’ve been wondering how to memorialize the bastard, and this is perfect for what I need to do.
It just leaves you sick and scared, doesn’t it? Well, and angry too, of course.
Nope Chimera, it’s all unfortunately true. I guess there’s a really (really) good reason that the best “big brother” movies come out of Great Britain – they live with it daily.
Amazing what a once great democracy can become isn’t it?
Sweet Georgia Brown!
That combined with the 20+ CCTV camera’s within 200 yards of George Orwell’s home pretty much indicate Britain is slipping into the abyss.
That is terrifying.
Well, hey. You know, we’re beginning to get the point that we’ve got to leave people’s sexuality and gender alone, and governments are figuring out that discriminating on race and religion is a bad plan. So we need ourselves a little something something to be dickheads about.
Camps for those who misuse the apostrophe! Smokers are only allowed to smoke while standing in the designated knee deep pit of manure! Anybody caught eating simple carbohydrates in public will be forced to Sweat to The Oldies!