Big Brother - 1984 - I'm leaving Britain......

[bj229r]

Think its bad over there? Wait for Hillary to be pres and the US LIBERAL gov to be in charge of your healthcare:
link

They’re watching you right now.

They counted every beer you drank during last night’s Red Sox [team stats] game.

They see you sneaking out to the garage for a smoke.

They know if you’ve got a gun, and where you keep it.

They’re your kids, and they’re the National Security Agency of the Nanny State.

I found this out after my 13-year-old daughter’s annual checkup. Her pediatrician grilled her about alcohol and drug abuse.

Not my daughter’s boozing. Mine.

“The doctor wanted to know how much you and mom drink, and if I think it’s too much,” my daughter told us afterward, rolling her eyes in that exasperated 13-year-old way. “She asked if you two did drugs, or if there are drugs in the house.”

“What!” I yelped. “Who told her about my stasher, I mean, ‘It’s an outrage!’ ”

I turned to my wife. “You took her to the doctor. Why didn’t you say something?”

She couldn’t, she told me, because she knew nothing about it. All these questions were asked in private, without my wife’s knowledge or consent.

“The doctor wanted to know how we get along,” my daughter continued. Then she paused. “And if, well, Daddy, if you made me feel uncomfortable.”

Great. I send my daughter to the pediatrician to find out if she’s fit to play lacrosse, and the doctor spends her time trying to find out if her mom and I are drunk, drug-addicted sex criminals.

We’re not alone, either. Thanks to guidelines issued by the American Academy of Pediatrics and supported by the commonwealth, doctors across Massachusetts are interrogating our kids about mom and dad’s “bad” behavior.

We used to be proud parents. Now, thanks to the AAP, we’re “persons of interest.”

The paranoia over parents is so strong that the AAP encourages doctors to ignore “legal barriers and deference to parental involvement” and shake the children down for all the inside information they can get.

And that information doesn’t stay with the doctor, either.

Debbie is a mom from Uxbridge who was in the examination room when the pediatrician asked her 5-year-old, “Does Daddy own a gun?”

When the little girl said yes, the doctor began grilling her and her mom about the number and type of guns, how they are stored, etc.

If the incident had ended there, it would have merely been annoying.

But when a friend in law enforcement let Debbie know that her doctor had filed a report with the police about her family’s (entirely legal) gun ownership, she got mad.

She also got a new doctor.

In fact, the problem of anti-gun advocacy in the examining room has become so widespread that some states are considering legislation to stop it.

Last year, my 7-year-old was asked about my guns during his physical examination. He promptly announced to the doctor that his father is the proud owner of a laser sighted plasma rifle perfect for destroying Throggs.

At least as of this writing, no police report has been filed.

“I still like my previous pediatrician,” Debbie told me. “She seemed embarrassed to ask the gun questions and apologized afterward. But she didn’t seem to have a choice.”

Of course doctors have a choice.

They could choose, for example, to ask me about my drunken revels, and not my children.

They could choose not to put my children in this terrible position.

They could choose, even here in Massachusetts, to leave their politics out of the office.

But the doctors aren’t asking us parents.

They’re asking our kids.

[Sundowner]

Originally posted by bj229r
Think its bad over there? Wait for Hillary to be pres and the US LIBERAL gov to be in charge of your healthcare:
link

Wow, bj, this is outrageous!

Thanks, for the eye-opening link.

Regards,
Sun

[Swoop]

Originally posted by Dowding
I live in Britain.

I see no crime.

I see beautiful rolling fields from my bedroom window and a couple of valleys.

On a Sunday morning I hear the Church bells only 500 yards away. Most mornings I hear the cows in the field over yonder. The pub is a short walk away and serves real beer from local breweries.

There is a strong sense of community. The local primary school is highly rated. My kids maybe will one day go there.

I can cycle along trails in the woods to work and be there in 30 minutes.

If there is a God, then Britain is his country.

I like Britain. I won't be leaving anytime soon.

Where the hell do you live?  
Cos it aint like that in Bristol.....

[Hortlund]

I suggest you move to Iran.

[Dowding]

Yorkshire. God's own county.

I think there are crap-holes everywhere. But there are gems too.

[thrila]

Dowding obviously doesn't live in burley, leeds either.  Though all cities have horrible areas.  I'm guessing it's not bradford or you would have said allah's own country .  Where do you live?

Bristol is ok, i'm probably moving back down to plymouth next year.

[Swoop]

Bristol is ok?  
Are you having a laugh?

Bristol has the worst parts of everything.  It's a huge city but I know of one (count em, one) 24 hour garage.  Every other garage seems to be staffed by people who can't speak English.  And I've yet to find an English speaking taxi / bus driver either.  

Trying to do anything except sleep at night requires a drive to somewhere else, anywhere else.  As far as I can tell, the favorite activity for the kids in this place is to drive to the services on the M5 and play arcade games after racing thier poxy 1.1l Ford Focus's around the city center until 2am.

The traffic is absolutely awful, and since no sod seems to know how to drive with haste in this damn town there's generally tail backs for miles at every junction.

The local yokels are the worst mix of tractor pulling numpties and chavs who seem to think that wearing a cap sideways makes em look cool but the effect is spoiled when they take off their shoes and socks in order to be able to count above 10.

The city center is full of some seriously tacky pubs and clubs, the kinda places where the lights really have to be set low so you cant see what you're treading in.  And by Christ the strip clubs are naff.

Bristol sucks.  It's trying to be London but it's more like Yokelville.

[lazs2]

I live in a fairly nice farming community but there is a group of landlords who all cashed in on the section 8 housing scam to get rich and moved a whole bunch of negros from the bay area here who have no jobs and... obviously.. are on welfare (section 8)

crime is way up and they wander the streets day and night... time to move.

lazs

[Dowding]

lol Swoop, you paint a pretty picture. You didn't mention SS Great Britain, Brunel's great ship. That has to at least make up for the Chavi Ford Focus malarkey.

Thrila - I live just outside Sheffield. Just where the Pennines and the Peak District starts. I like Sheffield. It has a decent city centre, but within 15 minutes you are in a National Park or rural villages. Most of the old steel industry is dead, apart from the small specialist companies, but there is still good employment for your professional types. It has good road links to the rest of the country too.

Also it rains here less than Manchester.

[Ocean27]

Originally posted by MrRiplEy[H]
All the gov needs to do is threaten to shut down McDonalds and Wendy's etc. and 99% of population will bend over backwards in horror..

No, they're too fat to do that