NANNY STATES NANNY DUELS
THE WINNER LOSES LIBERTY, FREEDOM

Many of you no doubt read of the Brit’s attempt to humiliate and criminalize a police woman who exchanged baby sitting services with a close friend. They had given birth about the same time and the arrangement suited both their schedules. This enraged authorities. As reported in The Daily Mail:

“A policewoman told last night how she was banned from looking after her colleague’s daughter because she was not a registered childminder.

Detective Constable Leanne Shepherd was ordered by the education watchdog Ofsted to end her private arrangement with her friend, DC Lucy Jarrett, or they would face prosecution.

The Thames Valley Police detectives – who gave birth within a few months of each other – share a job at Aylesbury Police Station in Buckinghamshire.

But the mothers, both 32, have now been told by Ofsted that surveillance teams will spy on their homes to make sure they are not continuing to care for each other’s daughter.”

[ABOVE: Under surveillance: Leanne Shepherd with Edie. PIC from UK Daily Mail.]

This really ticked off Michigan authorities. They thought that they were the kings of pettiness. Having decided that the crime situation in Michigan was entirely under control, and given that it was as close to utopia as one can get anyway, Michigan authorities decided they could one up the Brits.

From Mom warned for unlicensed child care :

“IRVING TOWNSHIP, Mich. — Each day, before the school bus comes to pick up the neighborhood’s children, Lisa Snyder did a favor for three of her fellow moms: welcoming their children into her home for about an hour before they have to leave for school.

Regulators who oversee child care, however, don’t see it as charity. Only days after the start of the new school year, Snyder received a letter from the Michigan Department of Human Services warning her that if she continued, she’d be violating a law aimed at the operators of unlicensed day care centers.

“I was freaked out. I was blown away,” she said. “I got on the phone immediately, called my husband, then I called all the girls” — the mothers whose kids she watches — “every one of them.”

And New York made a weak attempt to enter the Nanny State fray (and it wasn’t Mayor Bloombat this time either), when they pulled out an old law in Saratoga Springs prohibiting a student from riding to school on bike. Feeble because the child and his mother simply laughed at the school authorities and told them they would do whatever they like outside the school grounds.

The Brits were faced with a dilemma. Clearly Americans were not only playing the Nanny State game, but were pulling ahead. Grabbing all the good headlines, threatening citizens right and (well………not left) center, punishing the innocent with enthusiasm and an enviable degree of stealth. The Brits hunkered down and game up with a checkmate:

From Are you old enough to own a spoon? Woman asked for ID when buying teaspoons in Tesco:

“A shopper was asked for proof of age when she tried to buy a packet of teaspoons from a supermarket.

Emma Sheppard was forbidden to buy the cutlery unless she showed identification to a shop assistant at her local Tesco.

Till operators at the store in Evesham, Worcs, wouldn’t sell the pack of five teaspoons on Monday night as part of their ‘Think 25′ scheme, which demands ID from people who look under 25 when buying certain goods.”

[ABOVE: Stunned: Emma Sheppard wasn't carrying ID when she was challenged in Tesco as she didn't think she would need to prove her age to buy spoons. "We card for spoons--It's the Law!" PIC from UK Daily Mail]

MORE from the above UK Daily Mail report:

”I’m 21, I would have understood the need to ID me if it was alcohol, but it wasn’t. It was teaspoons I need to stir my cup of coffee in the morning.

‘I didn’t have my ID on me as I was only doing my weekly food shop and was not buying any alcohol. We couldn’t get the spoons in the end, and I rather angrily threw my shopping in the trolley, breaking my eggs.

‘I felt like saying “excuse me while I go on a mad rampage around Evesham with teaspoons”‘.

Ms Sheppard’s sarcasm masks the seriousness of the issue of rampant and uncontrolled acquisition of table implements.

Needless to say, American Nanny Staters are stunned.

In a single moment, aided by the simple entry of a computer prompt, Britain has redefined liberty. It is rumored that Mayor Bloombat of New York City had been personally persuaded to convene a conference to review the British success in intrusive government and how it can work for Americans.

It is said that the Obama administration has taken an extreme interest in the project and has suggested a permanent academy to study the same in Chicago–where friends of Obama have some real estate that would be available for a few million dollars.

[ABOVE: Valerie Jarret's Slum She Tried To Turn Into Olympic Dormitory. The Nanny Academy]

by pat
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