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The Daily Mail reports that the Gloucestershire police force has rolled out a new campaign urging citizens to turn in people they suspect of “living a lavish lifestyle from the proceeds of crime.” Chief Constable Timothy Brain explains, “in the current time of financial uncertainty, those who live a lavish lifestyle with no discernable, legitimate income become even more apparent. By flaunting their ill-gotten gains criminals signal contempt for everyone who works hard, and act as very poor role models for the younger members of society.” Based on this accompanying poster, it seems that Gloucesteshire MINI drivers should be prepared to prove that they can afford their gangsta whips at a moment’s notice.
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Are they sure the people who live in the middle house on the block didn’t just migrate there from Los Angeles? Cause if we were to investigate every house like that here…
Isn’t this what the Nazi’s did? …Encourage children at the state-run schools to turn in their parents?
Just imagine what Obama has in store for us, with the so-called “Civilian National Security Force”:
“We cannot continue to rely on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we’ve set. We’ve got to have a civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded.”
http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/07/obamas_civilian_national_secur.html
Police-state living…Oh the Joys!!
Next thing you’ll know, they’ll have campaigns for turning in your neighbor for not being “green” enough.
Time for some Munro Williams.
‘In the same way I prefer black coffee and straight whiskey, I prefer fascism in its undiluted Japanese state, as it makes no pretenses of regarding the individual intrinsically valuable.’ — Munro Williams
“We cannot continue to rely on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we’ve set. We’ve got to have a civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded.”
Funny, I thought that is what the National Guard is, and I didn’t hear anybody complain.
The UK seems to be ahead of us by a few years in terms of surveillance, speed cameras, and basically taking away the rights of citizens.
So prepare yourselves for this in the US in what, maybe 2-3 years?
Scary Orwell type stuff.
Rastus: Oh, for pete’s sake. Take it to a political discussion board.
Nice, I’m not looking forward to when this migrates here. So does this mean that everyone in the UK gets a tax break since they are doing the police work for the government.
I wonder how this one is going to effect their economy. All the criminals AND the people afraid of being labeled one by their neighbor will stop buying high end goods.
I understand and empathize with you Rick.
But I’m just a single person. I have not politicized driving, and I wish it were not the case that it has become so. If you cannot see the two (politics and driving) are inextricably linked nowadays, I’m terribly sorry.
How often do we see reports on this site linked to
http://thenewspaper.com/ ? A journal of the politics of driving.
You know, those 26″ chrome spinners you have on your Hyundai look mighty conspicuous. Have you been doing anything illegal to obtain such wealth? Maybe I should report you.
All Orwellian fascism arguments aside, if they have the money of a drug dealer, the taste in fashion of a drug dealer, and live in areas drug dealers frequent, they might just be a drug dealer. If you’re not doing anything wrong I don’t see a reason to fear this.
I don’t know about the U.K. but the rule here is snitches get stitches. People who know whats good for them mind there own business.
Why is this car related ?
Yes, if you live in “the hood” here in the US or in “Council Housing”,in the UK too much money (ie any) might be suspect. Rational folks who make money there MOVE as soon as they can afford it.
If you live in a nice neighborhood, and your next door comes back with a new Bentley, or the guy across the street adds a pool, does that mean they are involved in White Collar Crime ?
Not car related.
In the US this lifestyle has the unfortunate moniker: “N* rich”
You can use urbandictionary to figure it out.
So anybody with nicer stuff than I have is a criminal? The Soviets called them kulaks (as they carted them off to the camps.)
STOP SNITCHIN’!
“If you’re not doing anything wrong I don’t see a reason to fear this.”
You need to study the history of totalitarian political movements in the 20th Century. Mao’s Cultural Revolution comes to mind here.
I’ve got someone to report. She’s probably the biggest crook in England, she’s never had an honest job in her life, all her stuff is stolen, almost everyone in Britain has been a victim of hers, and on top of it she’s a smug bitch with no sense of remorse.
Too bad Britain is run by a one eyed Scottish idiot too blind to see the real theives, including himself.
Aren’t large cash withdrawals or deposits tracked by the banks and government here in the States? Isn’t energy usage monitored by police in some residential areas if they suspect that some houses might be used to farm pot? What’s the huge difference between these and this British idea? I’m pretty sure there are quite a few ways to snitch on your neighbors in America as well
no_slushbox, how do you create those indirect links where you link a url to any text you desire? That’s kind of cool. Do you have a link which spells it out?
Also, it’s one thing to admit there are plenty of ways to snitch, but it’s quite another to create a public campaign designed to pit neighbor against neighbor.
If I think you make too little to support your Ford Mustang, and for some reason I’ve always hated you, what a perfect excuse to turn you in- why, it’s “state-sponsored” so it must be ok, right?
The more I think of this, the more despicable it becomes. State-sponsored class warfare, the breakdown to society due to petty material goods such as a car…it’s disgusting.
Who is to say what is “too much” for YOU…especially when it’s mostly due to image and what is projected. It’s quite obvious you need no detailed information on the person you turn in- only a “suspicion”.
no_slushbox, how do you create those indirect links where you link a url to any text you desire? That’s kind of cool. Do you have a link which spells it out?
Also, it’s one thing to admit there are plenty of ways to snitch, but it’s quite another to create a public campaign designed to pit neighbor against neighbor.
If I think you make too little to support your Ford Mustang, and for some reason I’ve always hated you, what a perfect excuse to turn you in- why, it’s “state-sponsored” so it must be ok, right?
The more I think of this, the more despicable it becomes. State-sponsored class warfare, the breakdown to society due to petty material goods such as a car…it’s disgusting.
Who is to say what is “too much” for YOU…especially when it’s mostly due to image and what is projected. It’s quite obvious you need no detailed information on the person you turn in- only a “suspicion”.
Are they going to start with Jews again this time?
You take the Puritans out of Britain, but you can’t take the Puritanism out of the British.
(j/k)
This must be part of the much ballyhooed changes to the conservative movement.
Instead of being hard-core on crime, their new mantra is “no snitching”.
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Are they going to start with Jews again this time?
No, their slaughter must be saved until when Armageddon arrives.
Rastus:
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Hitler, of course, with his Blockwart system would have approved this. Mao with his revolutionary guards, as well.
As I do remember the sixties when the UK was an island of relaxed common sense in an ocean of European-wide idiocy and simple-mindedness, it’s especially sad to learn that obviously over the years this country has morphed into a world-leading center of this very idiocy and simple-mindedness, ridden by Health & Safety and other useless government-crap. Not a single day without disturbing nannification news. New Labour really did a god job.
“The opposite of good is well-meant.” This they will have to learn again.
@Rastus:
…but would have been ok, under the Bush administration?
paul_y,
There’s a certain concept called “right and wrong”. And believe it or not, right and wrong stands on its own- it does not adhere to any particular party line.
To answer your question- No.
First they came for the Communists,
and I didn’t speak up,
because I wasn’t a Communist.
Then they came for the Social Democrats,
and I didn’t speak up,
because I wasn’t a Social Democrat.
Then they came for the Trade Unionists,
and I didn’t speak up,
because I wasn’t a Trade Unionist.
Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn’t speak up,
because I wasn’t a Jew,
Then they came for me,
and by that time there was no one
left to speak up for me.
Pastor Niemoller
Rastus: There is a button with an arrow in it in the gray area above the box where I am typing this comment.
Select the url you want to link and copy it to your clipboard (control-c on PCs).
Type the text you want to link in the comment.
Select the text, put your cursor on the arrow button, and click your mouse button.
A box will pop up. Put the cursor in the new box and paste the copied url in the box (Control-v).
Place the cursor on the OK button in the box and click it.
Presto. You are done.
Swiper, no swiping!
can we turn in our congressmen?
Rastus said: “We cannot continue to rely on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we’ve set. We’ve got to have a civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded.”
http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/07/obamas_civilian_national_secur.html
Police-state living…Oh the Joys!!
Even the American Thinker article linked by Rastus makes it pretty clear Obama was talking about expanded community service organizations, not a police state.
Obama as quoted in the article: “Because the future of our nation depends on the soldier at Fort Carson, but is also depends on the teacher in East LA, the nurse in Appalachia, the after-school worker in New Orleans…”
Oooh, aaah, a tyranny of teachers, nurses and school aides!
(begin kooky right wing paranoid voice)
Oh no man, come on John Horner, you gotta wake UP!! Not only will this National Security Force make us shop at Whole Foods, they’re going to impound every Mazda Miata in existence and replace them with 2000 Chevy Malibus!! While we’re sleeping! We gotta stop ’em!
WOLVERINES!!!11!!11
(/kooky right wing paranoid voice)
The supreme irony of the situation is that any truly competent criminal is not gonna be out flouting their ill-gotten gains as the authorities think.
This won’t even affect all of the “Nigga Rich” folk. Instead, it’ll be used on ordinary people whom the government thinks are going “above their station in life” or some twaddle.
Wow. Some political stuff tonight. What happened to them automobile things that usually get discussed? Quit worrying. When The One gets through you won’t have a care in the world. The world. the world….
I admit it, I’d be suspicious if my neighbor routinely parked his powerboat called “VILLANZ” on the lawn.
If you’re not doing anything wrong I don’t see a reason to fear this.
If you are a tax resister (i.e., if you are resisting state robbery) you are doing nothing wrong, and -thanks to busybody neighbors- you are going to be under the focus of the police under this totalitarian scheme.
Hitler, of course, with his Blockwart system would have approved this. Mao with his revolutionary guards, as well.
Fidel Castro copied the Nazi Blockwart system.
It is called “Comité de Defensa de la Revolución”, CDR. It is -sadly- a functioning surveillance system in Cuba. For instance, the CDR boss checks that all the neighbors in a block assist public demonstrations in Cuba and show the required flag-waving “enthusiasm”.
John Horner:
“Oooh, aaah, a tyranny of teachers, nurses and school aides!”
Well when the the school can give your 11-12 year old daughter an OBGYN exam WITHOUT the parents knowledge or permission (forget being present), as happened recently in Pennsylvania, yes, the word tyranny comes to mind.
Why would a bunch of teachers, nurses, and expanded “community service” organizations be called a “national security force” that is “just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded” as the US military?
BDB :
May 13th, 2009 at 8:24 pm
(begin kooky right wing paranoid voice)
Oh no man, come on John Horner, you gotta wake UP!! Not only will this National Security Force make us shop at Whole Foods, they’re going to impound every Mazda Miata in existence and replace them with 2000 Chevy Malibus!! While we’re sleeping! We gotta stop ‘em!
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Is that sarcasm or not?
But FYI, yes, Obama is doing that. He already poured in like $50B to make sure you buy more of 2000 Malibus than Miatas. That’s a lot of commitment to me.
Yea, i have a crime to call about. It seems like the people in government are stealing from me and all the people in government seem to be throwing around lots of what sure looks like my money.
I wonder if they’d help me out by investigating themselfs…
oh yea, not free people and all, sorry i forgot about that.