Ratchman
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Posted - 2009.08.03 14:08:00 -
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Revolution is a big step, and were all still too comfortable to risk losing it all. The same would happen in America too. Who'd want to run the risk of becoming an 'enemy of the state' and ending up on some redition flight bound for a secret torture camp hidden away somewhere. Who's going to revolt and risk that just for some cameras?
And this is the problem.
People don't think enough about the way policy is made, and they don't complain loudly enough when such measures are introduced. But if you slowly let them erode your rights, you'll eventually end up with none. Stand up against such things now, while you can resolve things by debate, and it won't become necessary to take greater risks further down the line. Apathy is the shortest route to being controlled.
CCTV has been used in the UK as a substitute for policemen for a very long time now. The only reason George Orwells vision of a surveillance state never came to pass is that there's nobody watching those cameras. After all, those people cost money too. You watch if this project goes national. The cameras will go up, and nothing will change, because the budget won't stretch as far as employing someone to watch the cameras.
What you need in these areas, are policemen with common sense, and a mandate that doesn't hamstring them from dealing with issues, and allows them to record incidents without drowning them in paperwork and administration work.
Plus, with the growing worldwide population, I think we should seriously consider forms of population control and social engineering, such as introducing a child licence. After all, how many times do you see irresponsible people breeding like rabbits, only to beat and torture their children until they inflict their own pain on the rest of society.
Even if you see the ability to have children as a right, you cannot argue the need to prevent unfit parents from breeding. After all, aren't the rights of the child, even one that hasn't come into existence yet, more important? Better the child not be born, than born into a life of misery.
I'm sure that if the ASBO came with a mandatory sterilisation notice, you'd see far fewer people ever getting them.
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