"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." ~ H.L. Mencken
How the Young Poor Measure Poverty in Britain: Drink, Drugs and Their Time in Jail
""These people, he said, are neither helped by the extra money the government has invested in social programs, nor affected by new law-enforcement measures intended to address the antisocial behavior that people across Britain identify as one of their biggest concerns. Mr. Blair's government has introduced a bevy of directives aimed at stopping activity that disrupts neighborhoods ? vandalism, petty thievery, harassment, even persistently loud music ? but does not necessarily warrant criminal prosecution. The orders forbid youths, say, from going into certain neighborhoods, meeting with certain people, going into town without their parents, staying out past a certain time, harassing their neighbors. But Wythenshawe has its share of residents seemingly immune to government intervention." (NY Times) Stories of prole life in the post-industrial English nanny-state."
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