There's also the wider problem evidenced that the US and the UK especially are systematically reversing the burden of proof. Everyone who enters the attention of Law Enforcement is deemed to be guilty unless they can prove otherwise, and even then they merely win the right to be under suspicion until the next time they have to prove their innocence.
The Universal Surveillance being implemented in the UK.
The US FAA's increasingly Kafkaesque rules on what you're assumed to have made a deadly weapon out of. And the lists which are trivial to get on to (just use the wrong word once in hearing of the wrong person), and then impossible to find out if you're on it, let alone get off it.
This case where children entering the system (where there was no option for them to have not done so, and no place for human reason) were automatically assumed to be drugged-up gang members, and their mother an abusive monster.
I don't think they're isolated: I think they're all epiphenomena of a wider pathology.
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Re: No, not really surprised...
Date: 2008-01-30 07:49 am (UTC)The Universal Surveillance being implemented in the UK.
The US FAA's increasingly Kafkaesque rules on what you're assumed to have made a deadly weapon out of. And the lists which are trivial to get on to (just use the wrong word once in hearing of the wrong person), and then impossible to find out if you're on it, let alone get off it.
This case where children entering the system (where there was no option for them to have not done so, and no place for human reason) were automatically assumed to be drugged-up gang members, and their mother an abusive monster.
I don't think they're isolated: I think they're all epiphenomena of a wider pathology.