By Phil Giraldi
The British media is reporting that the local councils in England have been installing microchips in the standardized garbage bins that people are required to use. The microchips can register how full the bin is and the long term intention is reportedly to punish people who are regarded as producing too much garbage. As always, the move is being promoted in a feel good way as an environmental measure to encourage people to recycle, which is already mandatory. The local councils will be able to set acceptable levels of garbage generation per capita and will be able to bill people who exceed their quotas. Britain is already the most surveilled country in the world with CCTV cameras on nearly every street corner and blanketing every major roadway but garbage monitoring might be regarded as a new low in the attempt by the nanny state to regulate every aspect of daily life. – Phil Giraldi, American Conservative Defense Alliance