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Britain: Nanny State Descends into Police State
DBKP ^ | July 15, 2008 | pat

Posted on 07/15/2008 3:18:34 PM PDT by mondoreb

MORE British Insanity
Mother Needs Criminal Record Check Before Accompanying Epileptic Son to School

Great Britain

The Brits are entering the terminal stages of The Nanny State. While their streets are awash in criminals, the schools failing, the Health Care system on the respirator, and Islam on the verge of being the new royalty, the Brits have redoubled their efforts to make life more difficult for British families.

From the Daily Mail. (How do they find this stuff? Hotline?)

"Mother stopped from travelling with son in taxi to school - because she hasn't had a criminal record check"

Yep. In Britain a mother must have a criminal background check to accompany her child in a taxi to school.

And not just any child: an epileptic boy who could die without the assistance of his mother--and he would. British law prohibits the cab driver from assisting with the administration of medicine. From the story:

Accompanying her son to school is no routine family chore for Jayne Jones - it is a matter of life or death.

For 14-year-old Alex is severely epileptic and only his parents know how to operate the specialist equipment to help him if he suffers a life-threatening fit.But that has not stopped Mrs Jones being barred from travelling in the taxi provided by the council to take Alex the five miles to school. Her offence? Not to have had a Criminal Records Bureau check.


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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: bureaucracy; cesspool; deathofthewest; eu; greatbritain; nannystate; orwell; policestate; uk
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Many British probably cheer Ronald Reagan: "The nine most terrifying words in the English language are, 'I'm from the government and I'm here to help.'"
1 posted on 07/15/2008 3:18:34 PM PDT by mondoreb
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To: mondoreb

At what point do the sheep revolt?


2 posted on 07/15/2008 3:23:49 PM PDT by facedown (Armed in the Heartland)
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To: mondoreb

I’m gonna miss Britain when it’s gone.


3 posted on 07/15/2008 3:24:24 PM PDT by Squawk 8888 (TSA and DHS are jobs programs for people who are not smart enough to flip burgers)
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To: facedown

They cannot revolt when they have been disarmed.


4 posted on 07/15/2008 3:25:53 PM PDT by xDGx
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To: Squawk 8888
I’m gonna miss Britain when it’s gone.

It is gone. Articles like this prove it.

5 posted on 07/15/2008 3:29:42 PM PDT by RobinOfKingston (Man, that's stupid ... even by congressional standards.)
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To: RobinOfKingston

Yeah, we have lost a great ally.


6 posted on 07/15/2008 3:32:07 PM PDT by autumnraine
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To: mondoreb
'I'm from the government and I'm here to help.'"

But that has not stopped Mrs Jones being barred from travelling in the taxi provided by the council to take Alex the five miles to school...

They provide a taxi?

7 posted on 07/15/2008 3:32:27 PM PDT by WVKayaker (NobamaNation, just RNC Abomination... Where's Fred when we need him?)
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To: xDGx

Other than passive resistance and monkeywrenching, which when CORRECTLY applied, can bring a system to its knees. But once it’s down, what is to replace it? That’s the real question. The country will go to the ones with the will to have it and the means to keep it.


8 posted on 07/15/2008 3:43:43 PM PDT by coydog (Keep Canada green - paint a Liberal!)
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To: mondoreb

from the comments section of the article:

The State sees children as belonging to them, not the parents. Clearly the State is out of control in this Orwellian nightmare we call Britain.


9 posted on 07/15/2008 3:55:52 PM PDT by darkangel82 (If you're not part of the solution, you are part of the problem. (Say no to RINOs))
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To: mondoreb

This September I’ll be making my sixth, and probably last, trip to the UK. It is truly a sad state of affairs. Chillingly, it portends what could happen here.....very easily.


10 posted on 07/15/2008 3:56:08 PM PDT by clintonh8r (Fire mission!)
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To: xDGx
They cannot revolt when they have been disarmed.

Storm the Bastille.

11 posted on 07/15/2008 4:10:57 PM PDT by facedown (Armed in the Heartland)
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To: mondoreb
Reagan in A Time for Choosing:

...those who would sacrifice freedom for security have embarked on this downward path. Plutarch warned, "The real destroyer of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations and benefits."

12 posted on 07/15/2008 4:16:39 PM PDT by Plutarch
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To: Plutarch

Plutarch said a mouthful.


13 posted on 07/15/2008 4:18:41 PM PDT by mondoreb (just a simple blogger with a bag on my head)
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To: clintonh8r

” Chillingly, it portends what could happen here ...”

You mean WILL happen . 2084 ?


14 posted on 07/15/2008 4:20:46 PM PDT by sushiman
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To: mondoreb
i fart in their general direction...
15 posted on 07/15/2008 4:23:31 PM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist ©®-CTHULHU/NYARLATHOTEP'08=Nothing LESS!!!)
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To: Squawk 8888

“I’m gonna miss Britain when it’s gone.”

Start your missing, cause it’s already gone.


16 posted on 07/15/2008 4:27:11 PM PDT by PetroniusMaximus
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To: mondoreb

You see more Burkhas in London than in Dubai or Ankara.


17 posted on 07/15/2008 4:30:28 PM PDT by Bon mots
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To: PetroniusMaximus

Indeed.

And the proliferation of laws and cameras at every corner are not for protecting the public from the criminals, but for protecting the government from the public.

Those in charge in Britain eagerly sacrifice their own nation to retain their trappings of power.


18 posted on 07/15/2008 4:43:46 PM PDT by xDGx
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To: facedown
I don't think the sheep have the guts to do anything that requires strength and involves risk. Just this morning I heard a list of songs Brits voted as the top ten rock songs of all time. The list was sickening with names like Kiley Menogue, The Village People, Brian Adams and some other weak musicians. I was shocked at what they consider to be the best rock songs of all time.
19 posted on 07/15/2008 4:44:23 PM PDT by peeps36 ( Al Gore Is A Big Fat Lying Hypocrite. He Pollutes The Air By Opening His Big Mouth)
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To: facedown
At what point do the sheep revolt?

At the 2010 General Election. Labour is going to get creamed, in part because of stuff like this...

20 posted on 07/15/2008 4:57:01 PM PDT by GreenLanternCorps (No Surrender, No Retreat!!! Only one candidate will win the war, and it's not Barack Obama!)
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