The Redhunter

Outcast British families are to be thrown into "sin bins" till they learn how to behave in the community, according to the government.

Fifty-three Family Intervention Projects around the country will provide intensive social care for around 1,500 families a year. Some of them will be removed from their communities and housed in intensive units for round-the-clock-supervision under the government's Respect agenda.

The Communities and Local Government department did not say whether it had plans to tackle the other side of the problem for marginalised families - the communities that marginalise them.

Here's another British government website that explains what they mean by "anti-social behavior". Well, they sort of expain it

Anti-social behaviour has a wide legal definition – to paraphrase the Crime and Disorder Act 1998, it is behaviour which causes or is likely to cause harassment, alarm or distress to one or more people who are not in the same household as the perpetrator. Among the forms it can take are:

* graffiti – which can on its own make even the tidiest urban spaces look squalid

* abusive and intimidating language, too often directed at minorities

* excessive noise, particularly late at night

* fouling the street with litter

* drunken behaviour in the streets, and the mess it creates

* dealing drugs, with all the problems to which it gives rise.

I like that "wide legal definition" part.

The whole thing is littered with acronyms, in typical big-government fashion.

There's ASBOS, which stands for "Anti-Social Behaviour Order". There's even two websites dedicted to it, see here and here.

Then there's ABCs, which stands for "Acceptable Behavioral Contracts". ABCs are helpfully described on the relevant government website as being "voluntary agreements made between people involved in anti-social behaviour and the local police, the housing department, the registered social landlord, or the perpetrator's school."

I heard about the Respect program on the Glenn Beck radio program today and decided to do some poking around. He said today that some 9,000 people have been taken from their homes and put into these "Respect Camps" already. I couldn't find that on any sites today, but I didn't have a whole lot of time. Glenn says he'll have more about it on tomorrow's show. Tune in if you can.

Funny how the more gun laws, hate-crime legislation, and now "respect" laws we have, the more violent and vulgar our societies seem to be getting. Some people just never will understand that big government programs aren't going to solve these problems.

As for the British Respect program; George Orwell, call your office.