"This is a generational challenge which requires sustained work over the long term and by a range of actions in schools, colleges, universities, faith groups and youth clubs," Mr Brown said.
A new forum of headteachers will be convened to find ways to protect pupils from extremist propaganda.
A police and security intelligence and research unit will be set up to identify, analyse and assess youngsters at risk of falling under the influence of extremists.
"There is no greater priority than the safety and security of our people.."
Giovinezza, Giovinezza!
Primavera di bellezza
Nel Fascismo la salvezza
Della nostra liberta.
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Yes, the horrible interference with the young, corrupting, exploiting and neglecting them at the same time. What's the Italian for "age, selfish age"? Bandia Bruna?
Newmania and, if I remember correctly, E-K, both had discussions on what it would be like to live under a fascist regime, and how would one respond, and when.
English people have no experience of it, so there is no recognition. Parents will feel the first intrusions most because their children will be subjected to gross invasions of their individuality and civil freedoms first: fingerprinted at school, DNA'ed, files kept on them (and on their families), a 'profile' that will be used to proffer or withold life chances throughout their non-adult lives; as well as the manipultion of their belief systems and their expressions of allegiance to diverse social models and moral systems.
As these mechanisms are advanced sensible and sensitive people will try to limit contact with the state - which will not permit refusal of its services and will threaten parental/child normal relationships. All of this is happening already, criminalising of parent and child choices will grow both in the acts it covers and the numbers caught up.
England is quite far down the road to authoritarianism; the formal apparatus for arbitrary arrest, anonymity of prisoners, internment without charge, juryless or specialised juries is already in place, as is social punishment and herding for unwanted individual activities like movement to and from the country, while movement within the country that is already extensively monitored is to hindered and, at times of the regime's determining, prevented.
Why the installation of fascism was criticized as 'the nanny state' is probably due to the English innocence of totalitarian experience. They knew once to fight it though.
Vecchiezza, vecchiezza egoista, might do S.
My mother was at school when the Nazis took over in East Prussia. Everybody joined the Party - especially the teachers, who knew what was good for them - except for my mother, whose father had forbidden it. As a gentleman farmer, he regarded the Nazis as low-life (correctly: the local gauleiter had peviously been a despised, unemployable alcoholic).
So of course, the teachers browbeat my mother, and there were playground fights - which she was strong enough to win.
Parents don't seem to be aware that the Government is compiling a database on their children accessible by 300,000 "public servants" (excluding the children of celebrities and politicians)
So many gentlemen anything S, were among the first to be picked up; they had the independence and education to despise socialism and its realised manifestations.
Many of the skilled working people, the guildsmen rather than the mass worker union men found themselves against the wall fairly soon too.
But it was a big ask of your mother and presumably didn't end in winning fights in school.
Public servants - there's a term to consider; quelli dalle mezze maniche they were called, the low grade clerical staff who had green covers over their work suits to save the cuffs. (Says Mr HG).
I was writing this post last evening L, and like all blogging in full flight, required instantly reassurance on a bit of text; Mr HG had gone up early as he was tired out with farming failure but was woken by the peremptory demand 'Sing Giovinezza!" He lifted his sleeping head from the pillow, gave a rousing chorus, enquired how many verses were needed and, on being told 'none' collapsed back into the deepest first sleep of the night.
Greater love hath no man....
I recall not too long ago talking to a lawyer about changes in the English legal system, double jeopardy, jury, trial,habeus corpus etc. He opined that our political masters were trying to remove common law and replace it with the Continental Napoleonic Code, thus better to integrate Britain into the EU.
The removal of common law goes swimmingly, JG, it's the lack of its replacement with anything at all that leaves everyone defenceless.
Best would be to undo the last 10 years of waste-laying to the constitution; better would be to have the civil liberties and legal protections guaranteed within the European Union member-states' various written constitutions penal, and civil codes; worst is where the UK is now.
Not being a lawyer it is difficult to discern what was done to conform to European norms to ease engulfment, and what goes on in the interest of authoritarian statism and the preservation of the current regime in power.
What can be done to an ordinary English person now is unmatched anywhere else in the EU and would be met with outrage and bitter resistance.
Unmatched anywhere in Europe - look at how long someone can be charged with terrorism in France before being tried?
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