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UK Plans To Monitor 20,000 Families' Homes Via CCTV

metrix007 points out a story in the Sunday Express with more surveillance-camera madness from the UK, where the government now wants to place 20,000 CCTV cameras to monitor families ("the worst families in England") within their own homes, to make sure that "kids go to bed on time and eat healthy meals and the like. This is going too far, and hopefully will not pass. Where will it end?"

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  1. Re:Holy shit. by xaxa · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Does anyone have anything original to say, or are we going to end up with 500 "OMG 1984!!!!1!1!1!1!" comments?

  2. Re:Jesus Fucking Christ by mustafap · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    >m... Population: 60,943,912 (July 2008 est.)

    Geez, this isn't a test you know.

    >roll on independence and the referendum in 2010 is all i can say

    Absolutely. It's about time those of us in england stopped paying taxes to support you whiners up in scotland.

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  3. Re:Jesus Fucking Christ by commodore64_love · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    The Romans made a mistake when they chose not to subdue the Scots and civilize them. Seriously Scots remind me of a bunch of American rednecks from the backwoods of West Virginia. They don't appreciate the benefit of being part of a larger union.

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  4. Don't let them have children by Snaller · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Remove the defacto right that everybody is supposed to have to children - a lot of the less intelligent people will never make good parents, and shouldn't be allowed.

    How to prevent it? Tell them if they do get a million dollar/pound fine and 10 years imprisonment.
    Too many people on the planet as it is.

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