Nanny State Nannys
SUPER CALLOUS FRAGILE TWITS EXEMPLIFY “OFFICIOUS”
“Arrest Mary Poppins! Seize Her!”
If Mary Poppins showed up in Britain today, the British State would demand “Your papuzz, please, Fraulein.”
The State doesn’t even trust two of its own policewomen to care for each other’s children:
But the mothers, both 32, have now been told by Ofsted that surveillance teams will spy on their homes to make sure they are not continuing to care for each other’s daughter.
For the past two-and-a-half years, one looked after both of the girls while the other worked a ten-hour shift. Both worked two days a week.
But in July, after a complaint believed to be from a neighbour, Det. Constable Shepherd received a surprise visit from an Ofsted inspector, who accused her of running an ‘illegal childminding business’.
Under these guidelines, if the policewomen rescued a child from a burning building, that child would have to be returned to the building after two hours. “Sorry your kid got burned–but at least we protected him from the horrors of rogue baby-sitters!”
If only this Statist lunacy were confined to England. As Darleen notes, it happens here, too.
Maybe we could put an ankle monitor on each child to make sure they don’t spend too much time at the neighbors. And just to be sure, we can put a camera on every street corner. And if we really want to be safe and free, we can deputize half the population and assign them a personal surveillance target from the other half.
Or as we say in America, “The price of eternal vigilance is freedom.”
UPDATE: More Anglo-folly-a from the elegant Mr. Pryce-Jones:
Shirley Chaplin has been a nurse for some three decades. She is a committed Christian and wears round her neck a small silver cross, about one inch big. Her employers, the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital, warns her that she must remove this cross or be fired, in effect forcing her to choose between her faith and her job. Muslim nurses, however, are allowed to wear the hijab. [...]
On yet another front, the civil servants of the Home Office — in charge of domestic affairs — have been warned not to eat in front of Muslims during Ramadan. Operating officially within the department, it turns out, is a Home Office Islamic Network, paid for by the taxpayer, and it has inspired what it calls this “sensitivity” to Muslims. However, the Muslim Public Affairs Committee, established to promote Islamic interests, has put out a statement that “We don’t care how much non-Muslims eat in front of us,” — which is very kind, perhaps even sensitive, of them.
How bad is it when even the sharia-favoring Muslims are more tolerant of British subjects than is the British State? At least the Muslims won’t have a baby-sitting problem–they’re allowed to have multiple wives by the State, where others are not. That’s big of you, Big Bigamy.
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Too LATE!
http://reason.com/blog/show/136356.html
There goes sleepovers.
There goes taking your kid and a friend to the park/pool/anyplace.
There goes baby-sitting.
Cripes, what is wrong with people?
(An aside: I have filed Child and Youth Services briefs to terminate parental rights. That was the real thing, real abuse - reports from Childrens' Hospital. This isn't it at all. This is stupid.)