Anti-terror plan to spy on toddlers 'is heavy-handed’

[tangent4ronpaul]

Nursery staff and childminders are given 'duty' to report toddlers they suspect of being at risk of becoming terrorists under new Home Office measures

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ukne...vy-handed.html

Nursery school staff and registered childminders must report toddlers at risk of becoming terrorists, under counter-terrorism measures proposed by the Government.
The directive is contained in a 39-page consultation document issued by the Home Office in a bid to bolster its Prevent anti-terrorism plan. (snicker)
Critics said the idea was “unworkable” and “heavy-handed”, and accused the Government of treating teachers and carers as “spies”.
The document accompanies the Counter-Terrorism and Security Bill, currently before parliament. It identifies nurseries and early years childcare providers, along with schools and universities, as having a duty “to prevent people being drawn into terrorism”.
The consultation paper adds: “Senior management and governors should make sure that staff have training that gives them the knowledge and confidence to identify children at risk of being drawn into terrorism and challenge extremist ideas which can be used to legitimise terrorism and are shared by terrorist groups. [Comrad, you are not spouting the correct line! YEAH EDUCATION FTW]

yeah I know it's the UK, expect it here soon...

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[otherone]

or even better:

[Anti Federalist]

Maybe all children should just be turned over to the state at birth.

For safety, you know...

But I can't see anybody bitchin here in the US about it.

It was precisely for the same reason that the first mandatory schools in the US were started.

To make papist children of Catholic immigrants "conform" so as not to be troublemakers or anarchists.

[Philhelm]

They must have watched Family Guy too many times and thought that babies can actually be like Stewie.

[DamianTV]

Hint: Dont $#@!ing murder their parents in cold blood and there is a good chance they wont grow up to become terrorists at all!

Of course, that is NOT what they want. What they want has absolutely nothing with Terrorism. It is ALL an excuse for them to control your lives and rule you as they see fit! But in order to do that, they need a Boogeyman, something for you to be so hopelessly terrified of that you surrender all your freedoms for them to protect you from their ficticious Boogeymen! Sad thing is that most people will surrender everything in exchange for a false sense of security, and end up with neither Freedom or Security.