“Britain To Put CCTV Cameras Inside Private Homes.” Seems that Britain believes this will encourage better parenting to have the full-fledged nanny state enforcing homework and child discipline. Worse: the opposition party is complaining that the Labour government’s plan isn’t ambitious enough.
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I’m trying to think of something meaningful and articulate but all I’m coming up with is WTF.
Once upon a time, I wanted to move to GB if the US was reduced to a pile of nuclear ash. Today, I think I’ll stay here.
Whenever things like this are done ‘for the sake of the children’ I think of Groucho’s line when told to do something for posterity: “What has posterity ever done for me?”
James Lileks has some comments on this subject today in his personal blog — as opposed to the one he does for the Minneapolis Star-Tribune.
http://lileks.com/bleat/?p=3334
Bob
That’s a Ballsy plan (pun intended)
I guess the British government thinks that 1984 is a how to book!
Now, I’m starting to root for the Muslims.
I’m sure that those people who think we should be able to abort children up to the age of 2 years would be horrified to see how we, the unenlightened, raise our kids. In fact, I think they’d probably be horrified that we’re allowed to raise our own children without their direction. If they want to start watching us, I’m sure that they won’t object to installing CCTV cameras in their own work sites, homes, cars and plac