It's embarrassing to have just written a post (which Tyler, damn him, immediately upstaged) ruminating among other things on the changing definition of privacy, only to discover that Great Britain has already made my own paranoid musings obsolete by a href="http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/115736"putting thousands of families on government surveillance inside their own homes/a:br /br /blockquotespan style="font-style:italic;"THOUSANDS of the worst families in England are to be put in “sin bins” in a bid to change their bad behaviour, Ed Balls announced yesterday.br /br /span style="font-weight:bold;"The Children’s Secretary set out £400million plans to put 20,000 problem families under 24-hour CCTV super-vision in their own homes.br /br /They will be monitored to ensure that children attend school, go to bed on time and eat proper meals.br /br /Private security guards will also be sent round to carry out home checks, while parents will be given help to combat drug and alcohol addiction./spanbr /br /Around 2,000 families have gone through these Family Intervention Projects so far.br /br /But ministers want to target 20,000 more in the next two years, with each costing between £5,000 and £20,000 – a potential total bill of £400million.br /br /Ministers hope the move will reduce the number of youngsters who get drawn into crime because of their chaotic family lives, as portrayed in Channel 4 comedy drama Shameless.br /br /Sin bin projects operate in half of council areas already but Mr Balls wants every local authority to fund them.br /br /He said: “This is pretty tough and non-negotiable support for families to get to the root of the problem. There should be Family Intervention Projects in every local authority area because every area has families that need support.”br /br /But Shadow Home Secretary Chris Grayling said: span style="font-weight:bold;"“This is all much too little, much too late."/span/span/blockquotebr /br /If I thought this was funny, I'd make a comment about iMy Name is Earl/i meeting George Orwell.br /br /But it's not funny.div class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7893272060787897238-6352367547313431843?l=delawarelibertarian.blogspot.com'//div
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