British Government Installing CCTV Cameras Inside Private Homes
August 3rd, 2009Via: Wired:
As an ex-Brit, I’m well aware of the authorities’ love of surveillance and snooping, but even I, a pessimistic cynic, am amazed by the governments latest plan: to install Orwell’s telescreens in 20,000 homes.
£400 million ($668 million) will be spend on installing and monitoring CCTV cameras in the homes of private citizens. Why? To make sure the kids are doing their homework, going to bed early and eating their vegetables. The scheme has, astonishingly, already been running in 2,000 family homes. The government’s “children’s secretary” Ed Balls is behind the plan, which is aimed at problem, antisocial families. The idea is that, if a child has a more stable home life, he or she will be less likely to stray into crime and drugs.
It gets worse. The government is also maintaining a private army, incredibly not called “Thought Police”, which will “be sent round to carry out home checks,” according to the Sunday Express. And in a scheme which firmly cements the nation’s reputation as a “nanny state”, the kids and their families will be forced to sign “behavior contracts” which will “set out parents’ duties to ensure children behave and do their homework.”
And remember, this is the left-wing government. The Shadow Home Secretary Chris Grayling, batting for the conservatives, thinks these plans are “too little, and too late,” implying that even more obtrusive work needs to be done. Rumors that a new detention center, named Room 101, is being constructed inside the Ministry of Love are unconfirmed.
I cannot believe that the British People are putting up with this. They are already the most observed people (in London) and now this!!! They are using 1984 as a blueprint, I really don’t want to be around when it turns NASTY!
The individuals that allow this must be extremely dumbed-down, servile, and completely colonized by a nanny-state mindset to allow their privacy to be invaded to this extent. They probably think that it’s for their own good, after having been told it a few hundred times. Something like this can probably only result from multi-generational mind-slavery.
It gets a WTF rating of 9.5.