Wednesday, May 14, 2008
Coming soon, to a neighborhood near you......
Britain is considering a proposal for "tension monitoring committees" at the neighborhood level. These TMCs would report on "the behaviour and attitudes of local residents". The "tension monitoring form" will ask for details of individuals considered to be making political trouble.
More:
Do the latter two "crimes" sound awfully familiar? Here in Spokane the city council is setting up neighborhood Green Monitoring Committees, to insure that Neanderthal holdouts are forced to give up all their evil incandescent light bulbs.
Pitchfork time, folks. ¶ 12:12 PM
More:
The monitoring committees will ask for information on those identified as troublemakers, [including] age, gender, ethnicity and faith of those being reported on.
Concerns have deepened in recent weeks after the Daily Mail revealed that Poole council in Dorset had spied on a family's life for three weeks because it wrongly suspected the parents of abusing rules on school catchment areas.
There are also worries over the spread of new council quasi-police forces, like the bin police that recently gave a criminal record to a bus driver in Cumbria who left the lid of his family wheelie bin open by four inches.
Do the latter two "crimes" sound awfully familiar? Here in Spokane the city council is setting up neighborhood Green Monitoring Committees, to insure that Neanderthal holdouts are forced to give up all their evil incandescent light bulbs.
Pitchfork time, folks. ¶ 12:12 PM
