It’s not enough that the average Briton is captured on closed-circuit TV cameras in his car, in the street, in the shopping mall, and even in country lanes where the rural constabulary have hidden them in trees to catch illegal fox hunters. Now the government is monitoring his garbage. If they ever take up Sheryl Crow’s all-we-are-saying-is-give-one-piece-a-chance toilet-paper rationing, you can bet the enforcers will mandate CCTVs in every bathroom if not microchips in the bowl.
If George Bush put a microchip in your garbage under the Patriot Act, there’d be mass demonstrations across the land. But do it in the guise of saving the planet and everyone’s fine with it.
Steyn finds the right word to describe this type of surveillance statism…”creepy”
It is, indeed, “creepy” when your government wants to know what you throw away so it may levy fines or worse for throwing away the wrong things.
…it seems a paradox that in a society where you can buy something legally the right to dispose of it is illegal…paradoxes, Orwellian surveillance, mobilizing the anthill society….not paradoxical if you understand the core politics of eco/green ideology.
It’s about control and consolidating power in an omnipotent government with a oppressive regulatory regime.
Liz May call the British Greens office there is a report from the trash commissar you will want to see….next,….chimney police with fire sniffing dogs…fuel police?
light bulb police
Why not? The Brits have a long history of this sort of thing. They have tv police to make sure no one is watching tv for free. They drive around neighbourhoods in vans with electronic gear inside to see which houses are receiving tv signals via airwaves then they check it against their registry to ensure the house has its “tv watching license” up to date.
This is par for the course for the Brits.
All it really does is add to pollution in the most basic ways.
If you restrict dumping then all you get is more illegal dumping, not less disposal.
Ever snorkel around the beaches of Bermuda.
They are littered with stereo equipment, TV’s and old mopeds because they are costly to dispose of, and the locals just drive to the end of the road and throw it in the ocean for free.
Restricting the public from legal dumps that they pay for with their taxes only creates more illegal dumps.
i must have clicked on wrong item garbage post went to previous post
Kingstonlad Quizzes: “light bulb police”
Pet flatulance police?
Human flatulence police?
running too hard and exhaling too much Co2 monitoring police?
The political descendants of unhygienic hippies develop a fetish for garbage. Go figure.
Why don’t the Brits just go the full mile and get microchips implanted under their skin, it’s routine for pets now. They could also wear ankle bracelets with transmitters…..better yet, get lobotomies now before they are forced to do it under increasingly deteriorating conditions within their national health system. Sepsis is a bummer.
Two weeks between pickups!, the aroma ought to kill tourism, anyone in the Brit’s public health system concerned with rats and disease? Proving what I’ve suspected for a long time, the nanny state will be the death of you, taking more forms than you can imagine.
Penny, here in the Toronto ‘burbs they have also cut the garbage pick-up to once per fortnight…and at the same time cut the number of bags of garbage that can be put out for “free” by 75%.
I’ve tolerated it to this level, but the next cut will result in this law-abiding citizen dumping ALL of his garbage in thr city streets.
Quit griping in Toronto. I’ve moved to a village with no garbage pick-up, so buy tags to take my own trash to the twp dump, where I have the pleasure of dragging it out of the trunk and throwing it on the pile. Not a small feat for an 80 yr old. Especially in the hot, humid days of summer and wasp season.
Or, I could dig into the pension some more and hire someone to pick it up. I lose either way.
Well where I live between the city bylaws requirering you to bear the cost of “processing” your garbage for pick up..washing cans and bottles, sorting differnt (cleaned) containers, plastics and papers into bundled proper sized stacks)….then the garnage collecter’s union gets pissy about not acepting uncleaned containers or improperly bundled plastics,carboards or hounshold junk over certain sizes and weights.
Soooo..last year I found myself reevaluating this great over regulated “service” by calculating what I expended in time, materials and energy in “processing” my trash…turned out it was more than the $$ equivelent of my property taxes….I was losing $$$ and time properly preparing my garbage for collection which the city profits on as recycleables or fuel for industrial furnaces…..so I just started tossing all my junk into green bags and making a trip to the local dumpsters…less wasted energy( my water and electric). less regulatory liabilities and my uncompensated time.
For every regulatory action there is an equal an opposite reaction 😉
Mentioned the Cheyl Crow line” all-we-are-saying-is-give-one-piece-a-chance toilet-paper rationing” to my son, who thot we shouldn’t stop there. Why not use both sides.
And to CHERYLE CROW from SPURWING PLOVER HOW MANY TREES WERE CUT DOWN TO MAKE YOUR GUITAR and YOUR PAPER SHEET MUSIc, HOW MANY MPG DOSE YOUR LITTLE MOTORCADE GET WHILE YOUR DRIVING ALL OVER THE COUNTRY BLABBING THIS TOILET PAPER POOPYCOCK? and HOW MUCH ROADKILL DID YOU LEAVE BEHIND? SQUAWK SQUAWK LISTEN UP YOU OLD CROW A OLD BIRD LIKE ME DONT CARE FOR ENVIROMENTAL HYPOTCRITS SQUAWK SQUAWK SQUAWK
WLMR: “For every regulatory action there is an equal an opposite reaction”
Or, as Michael Walker (Fraser Institute) would say: “Regulation is the lubricant of corruption”.
The English have fallen far. They’re now too laughable to take seriously.
They won’t take their country back. It’s too far gone down the socialist, big-brother gutter.