We're tuned to Heartfm in the office today, so I had the privilege of hearing our government pursue their extortion policies with an unusually ham-handed approach. An information advert encouraging payment of fines issued the warning, "If you do not pay your fine, a civilian officer, or even the police, will come knocking, and you won't like what happens next." I thought statements like that were the sole domain of Mafia maulers and similar neighbourhood nasties. It seems the effectiveness of loaded threats is a lesson learned from the biggest racketeers of them all - Government. The only difference, until now, has been the prudence with which the g-men have followed their brief but, in a world gone mad1, the kid gloves have been lost in the stampede. Not even the elderly are immune, as the recent spate of pensioners imprisoned for dissent over their extortionate council taxes will show, so heavens help the rest of us.
1and a thousand elephants
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