This suggestion instantly reminded me of the film Minority Report. It also made me want to weep at the complete and utter lack of any understanding of how genes and environment interact.

Just before I read this post, I read about 1 dead kid and 2 hospitalised ones, who seem to have had methadone. Shouldn’t somebody also next forcibly sterilise drug addicts, since their children happen to be at great risk to their life, not just of turning criminal due to the unusual circumstances in their family? The question is :where does it stop?

Yesterday the BBC interviewed a school head teacher who is retiring after 37 years. He said in his experience, of his 6000 students, very few were terrible kids and yes, they are demonised unfairly. I am more inclined to believe his experience than any government stats.

I am astounded at how civil liberties have reduced dramatically even in the decade or so I have lived here. Odd though that China’s tanks on Tibet’s streets make news headlines, while our government’s attempts at criminalising an entire generation seem to make no waves at all or be deemed worthy of any discussion.

It is almost beyond belief that someone could call for the effective criminalisation of children based on an assessment of their behaviour being a possible indicator that they may commit a crime in the future.

What a terrifying Orwellian world. I would like to leave now…