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‘Environmental volunteers’ will be encouraged to spy on their neighbours
Lucy Cockcroft
London Telegraph
Tuesday, September 2, 2008
Councils are recruiting residents to report anyone who drops litter, fails to recycle their rubbish properly, or who allows their dog to foul the streets.
Advertisements looking for people to sign up for the unpaid “environmental volunteer” jobs have been posted across the country in recent months.
Critics said the scheme is encouraging a Big Brother society where friends and neighbours will be encouraged to “snoop” on one another.
The recruitment drive follows news that the Home Office is granting police powers to council staff and private security guards, allowing then to hand out fines for low-scale offences and ask for personal details.
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Matthew Elliott, of the Taxpayers’ Alliance, said: “Snooping on your neighbours to report recycling infringements sounds like something straight out of the East German Stasi’s copybook.
“With council tax so high, the last thing people want to pay for is an army of busybodies peering through their net curtains at their neighbours as they put out their rubbish.”
Eastleigh council, in Hampshire, has said it wants residents to “monitor local environmental quality” to combat issues involving recycling and waste.
The local authority has already employed about a dozen people who answered an advert in a council newsletter which said: “Volunteers will be involved in reporting issues in their area such as recycling, waste, fly-tipping, graffiti, dog fouling and abandoned vehicles”.
And the borough of Tower Hamlets, in east London, is advertising for similar roles within its environmental department, while other councils are expected to follow suit.
The volunteers are not asked directly to spy on neighbours, but they are encouraged not to ignore tip-offs.
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September 2nd, 2008 at 12:08 pm
Is this in the US or UK?
September 2nd, 2008 at 12:45 pm
PussyParty
September 2,2008
Is this in the US or UK?
Answer = UK
September 2nd, 2008 at 3:23 pm
alright again I have to say so what. People need a good kick in the ass. When it comes to the enviroment. I personally have dogs and let them shit everywhere my neighbors and I have a standing agreement if there is a problem talk it out. We share our space, we have a community. I would far prefer someone feel they have they right and authority to complain and ticket me for being as douche bag and letting my dog shit in their yard. But i take responsibility for my actions. so many people would far rather throw garbage on the street and shit everywhere and tell you to fuck off if you don’t like it. Then simply take responsibility and live better. I hope this program comes to my neighborhood but then I’m also part of an independant neighborhood watch. we don’t have meetings we just talk in the community. If someone is leaving town I know if there is something suspicious I call my neighbors and if necessary the police. A number of times a late night disturbance ended up being a drunk teen or fighting couple a caring hand or word takes care of the problem far better than the police ever would.
I can’t say it enough take responsibility. personal responsibility.
September 2nd, 2008 at 4:24 pm
true believer
you cant even write a sentence that makes sense. you have an agreement to talk out your community problems and at the same time you hope the snitch program comes to your block. You let your dogs shit everywhere and you say people need a kick in the ass. But you dont have meetings you just talk in the community, spy on your neighbors, call the police, and keep tabs on everyone around you. We have nosy freaks that peek out the windows at neighbors on my block too. They will also be first in line to sign up for the idonthavealifesoiwillwatchyoursandreportittothegovernment rats-r-us program. take responsibility for being fluoridated.
September 2nd, 2008 at 7:18 pm
“Thanks for a country where nobody is allowed to mind his own business; thanks for a nation of finks”
-W.S.Burroughs
September 2nd, 2008 at 8:02 pm
I got a better name for an organization of finks. Lets call it
R.A.T. Stoolie, where spying on your nieghbors is civic minded.
September 2nd, 2008 at 8:05 pm
http://www.terrorist-threat.com
September 2nd, 2008 at 8:12 pm
Stoolie, sort of like a peeping Tom or a pervert, or someone who has no civility and will purposefully set out to hurt someone’s feelings, or let alone bodily?
September 2nd, 2008 at 8:24 pm
Has anyone noticed how the word “Neighbor” was spelled? “nieghBOURS” . Use your dictionaries and see how Alex is a pig of the NWO of even allowing this/missing this and not commenting on this usage of the BRITISH USE of the word.
Wake up motherfuckers!
September 2nd, 2008 at 8:30 pm
In response to true=believer’s following comment…
“…and if necessary the police. A number of times a late night disturbance ended up being a drunk teen or fighting couple… a caring hand…”
It’s nosy ass people like you, who should mind their own damn business, who cost my husband and I thousands of dollars and caused my husband to be arrested for crimes he didn’t commit. All because a nosy neighbor thought he would play hero, butt his nose where it didn’t belong. Mind your damn business. Go clean up your dog’s shit, instead of trying to clean up other peoples shit.
Thanks for the helping hand, pal.
September 2nd, 2008 at 9:56 pm
Moxie,
What indignantly horrific atrocity was committed upon you that had the gestapo visited at your door? Are you and enabler or do you like a good beating from time 2 time?
Do you think that you deserve it? Does your “man” treat you well when he is not drunk?
Or are you a white trash tragedy seeker that deserves what you get?
Do tell us you magnificent cunt!
September 2nd, 2008 at 10:25 pm
So no pay to explain the traitors? I would hate any to be my neighbors and pull this crap. You can wait 1-10 years to get even. Be patient…Move, come back, do your bussiness. Rats are rats and if they insist on us living in a prison-like setting on the outside, the same rules apply then. You don’t rat, plain and simple without bad, bad things happening.
September 2nd, 2008 at 10:28 pm
Steven’s an ass, Moxie. The whiney, paid kind who come here to make it look like people disagree. Don’t worry.
September 2nd, 2008 at 10:39 pm
Steven, what a loser to talk to a woman the way you do. You must be from another country or the north part of America. (No offense to good northeners) Before you cast a board into someone else’s eye, take the stick out of yours. Or pick up your own dog shit and leave others to do the same or not. Who are you? Poop Patrol? If so, go to bed so you can work early when all the poopie hounds are out, or shut the fuck up and walk on the sidewalk. Pick it up yourself with a trashbag over your hand if you have such a problem, but don’t be insulting women on this forum before I can find out who you are and you have visitors you will never remember. It can be done.
September 2nd, 2008 at 11:11 pm
This is a NWO behavoiral conditioning plot, litterers suck , no doubt, it’s something any sane person is against.But remember these are the people who own the industrial infrastructure and they are telling you that the end-user is the problem. It sneaks ratting into our behavoiral repatoir. Kinda like how we can be trained to hate our own biology ( its bad to be pregnant at childbearing age…it can really mess up your life. ) Like having to raise your hand to ask if you can respond to your own nuero system telling you to pee; teaches self denial and to take orders from those in authority. hear the bell rininging ? im hungry. Come home from work, watch the news err get reprogrammed.
wake up and smell the coffee then lite a smoke.
who controls us ?
If you ratout someone for littering you may be rewarded somehow with some small piece of cheese. It may even make you feel enfranchised part of the team , yea the team that eats their own.
One thing about fascism is there’s always a new baby to eat.
September 2nd, 2008 at 11:15 pm
To everyboby including Steven,
it’s only a suggestion for snopping, but it may be also the beginning of something really bad, some people may take advantage of this one, and fool some people for money. Voluntiers or agents??? Is there a definite amount of people you can Snoop in a year? Who will regulate them in ther ways of snooping? Who care anyway the bill will pass without even being read anyway! History repeating? Nazi Germany has induced this one gradually to ther own people, and we know what happend next, not really a good news there, and it should be takin very seriously and carefully.
Maybe the trains are already waiting for us? Because this one is not about rasicm, i think it’s more about money, and no matter about what color, race or country you are?
(PUBLIC SECRET AGENTS)=(GESTAPO)
Snooping on people already exist and so what! Do you like to get snoop upon? Are you always clean and perfect, where do you fix your limits of snooping?
(This was my opinion) Please go and make your own reserch!
September 2nd, 2008 at 11:22 pm
Hammer please be carefull im from north america and i care about you guys so be kind with me. I’m a american too, but your country is your and mine is mine, im agains AMERO
September 3rd, 2008 at 3:40 am
More social engineering and community controling bull. Give the people a little authority and watch them dance to the slave masters tune. It makes me sick. If they only knew the kind of world that they are helping to create. SHAME ON THEM!