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Park wardens have been ordered to stop and interrogate anyone who is not accompanied by children. The visitors who are quizzed have to explain their presence and risk being thrown out or reported to police if their answers are not satisfactory.
The policy has been introduced at Telford Town Park in Shropshire. The council which manages the 420-acre area says it is a ‘commonsense approach’ aimed at safeguarding children.
But park users accused it of ‘authoritarian madness’ and said the ruling risked panicking parents about the dangers faced from potential paedophiles. The policy came to light after two environmental campaigners dressed as penguins were thrown out of the park last month when caught handing out leaflets on climate change.
Found by Norman Speight.
#30 as you stated::
“so could they please run their Criminal Records Bureau checks and risk assessments now”
with names given from the country of origin for “of all 330 million Americans … and the Chinese, too! Oh, and there are, what, 150 million Japanese that might want to be tourists in Telford come tourist season. They’d better get busy!”
You laugh and I bet you actually believe this isn’t already happening?
Given the awesome eavesdropping networks and really super massive computing power readily and now cheaply available, you don’t think there isn’t something akin to the 2002 movie “Minority Report” based on the story of the same name?
You think London and NSA/FBI/DoD/CIA in Washington, hasn’t developed already a special police department akin to and called something like “Precrime Unit” that apprehends criminals before a crime is committed but only thought of, based on foreknowledge, provided by a massive supercomputer complex called the “precog assessment machine”.
Washington has already designed an algorithm that can take your church attendance records, employment records, credit/spending records, military service records, magazine subscriptions, library and book store records, education records, driving records (all those speed/stop sign are really tracking peoples movements), and digitized phone conversation records then feed all this into “our” super massive “precog assessment machine”.
You laugh, but it’s happening. A friend from Princeton is on a Washington based team and they are making this happen now.
The world is going to shit. It is damn near impossible to just be nice to anyone these days without being taken for a terrorist, pedophile or asbo. Offer to carry the bag for some old lady? Obviously you’re out to steal it. Carrying nail clippers? Terrorist. Smiling at a kid? Pedophile!
The bad thing is, the fear of being marked one of the above has been imprinted into everyone’s brain these days, so even if the situation is clear as day, you are still unconsciously afraid to act normal. The other day a small child was smiling at me from a stroller and I smiled back. And immediately I looked around to see if people are looking funny at me. May I repeat? The world is going to shit. Maybe a swiss-made black hole wouldn’t be such a bad thing.
Ummm,
Fun to think…
that a priest is SAFE with your kids..
TAKE 1/2 the world to watch the other 1/2, and you still have ALL the worst on both sides.
Its the ones with the POWER, or unsuspected, RESPECTED/RESPONSIBLE ones that SHOCK us..??
Im waiting for A pilot to be Al Queda..
Im waiting for a Cop to Kill an unarmed person, and put a knife in his hand.
Im waiting for Truth in government and religion.
#24 JCD
It was a bad mistake letting you lot have your country back – things were so much more civilised when we owned it.
#1: What is the opposite of schadenfreund?
Lisa: Dad, do you know what Schadenfreude is?
Homer: No, I do not know what shaden-frawde is. Please tell me, because I’m dying to know.
Lisa: It’s a German term for `shameful joy’, taking pleasure in the suffering of others.
Homer: Oh, come on Lisa. I’m just glad to see him fall flat on his butt! He’s usually all happy and comfortable, and surrounded by loved ones, and it makes me feel… What’s the opposite of that shameful joy thing of yours?
Lisa: Sour grapes.
Homer: Boy, those Germans have a word for everything!