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Councils Recruit Unpaid Volunteers To Spy On Their Neighbors
Several readers have written to tell us that a recent move in the UK has councils relying on info from "Citizen Snoopers" to report the transgressions of their neighbors. Currently only implemented as "environment volunteers" designed to keep watch on things like litter, dog habits, and improper trash sorting, there is a certain amount of trepidation that this could grow into something more sinister. "It will fuel fears that Britain is lurching towards a Big Brother society, following the revelation this week that the Home Office is extending some police powers to council staff and private security guards. Critics said the latest scheme could easily be abused and encourage a culture of bin spies and curtain twitchers. Matthew Elliott, of the Taxpayers' Alliance, said: 'Snooping on your neighbors to report recycling infringements sounds like something straight out of the East German Stasi's copybook.'"
They've already given us the Community Support Officer (the plastic police) which is effectively a policeman with limited powers - and crucially a lower salary
Sorry I have to beg to differ, The phrase is Glorified Traffic Warden
Growing things in pots is a transgression in Michigan?
Ehm, if you fail to cut your 'grass' you get a fine, but you're suspicious when you grow pot plants?
I must say I fail to see the logic.....
.sigh
Betray your family and friends. Fabulous prizes to be won! And don't forget to vote fascist for a third glorious decade of total law enforcement.
A lot of people would actually pay for the opportunity to legally harass their neigbours, so I think the councils aren't even close to what they could have done, after all, they'll need a lot of money to staff their soon to be overwhelmed homicide divisions.
No no, Wombles are the Traffic Agency types who drive up and down the motorways in their pretend Police-cars.
Look, that was a perfectly well constructed law and was passed for all the right reasons. Some poor Daily Mail reading womens kinky daughter was killed, no, SLAUGHTERED at the hands of her consenting partner while engaging in a consensual sex act which the poor womens kinky daughter enjoyed and had requested her partner to perform.
Now I don't know about you, but clearly when a person who is engaging in a dangerous kink is accidentally injured, it's clearly the fault of the internets and those dangerous perverts who inhabit it's every nook and cranny. Like the Daily Mail reading womens daughter, for example. Obviously her daughter never would have enjoyed breath-play if the internet was banned. Or something.
Shit, have I left my sarcasm on again? Oh I'm terribly sorry.
I like 'improper copper'.
Errrm.. You mean Land of the Fee.
Camping on quad since 1996.
"Hobby Bobby", although that's more often used for a "Special Constable"
It's so people don't park on their heads.
"It's not a small minority. Not by a long shot."
So most muslims have blown themselves up in attacks on western civillians? That sounds like a problem that sorts itself out. Or do you mean that most are involved in some sort of extended plot to kill you and people like you?
Lots of things, like the fact that the IRA was not embarking on an eternal, God-given religious quest to rid the world of infidels one way or another.
Are you sure about that? Seemed like religiously motivated violence to me.
The IRA was a small, temporal group with small, temporal objectives, not an entire religious culture over 1500 years old with members in every corner of the planet.
Again, it's not every muslim that's full of hate for you and your culture. Not by a long shot. And the IRA had links all over the planet too, with south american militias and with US funding.
"There's really no point in even talking about this. All the king's men and all the king's horses could never convince you that anything is amiss in Britain or Europe. Go back to sleep."
See my original post. There's a lot wrong with the UK. "The muslims did it!" is not one of those things though.
I suggest you wake up and see what good, honest, white (lol) British people are doing because of their fear of muslims, and what the government is doing to our once free society because it can get away with it based on that (mostly invented) fear.
Hey, can you stop going on about your Italian girlfriend's naples and tell us where you live already?
Weaseling out of things is important to learn. It's what separates us from the animals... except the weasel."
My neighbour is spying on me!
How do you mean sir?
Well, see, I was peaking out my curtain...
"By the time they had diminished from 50 to 8, the other dwarves began to suspect 'Hungry.'" -Gary Larson