Chocolate is why the "Sun is Setting" on the British Empire!

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  • wa3zrm
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    • May 2009
    • 4436

    #1

    Chocolate is why the "Sun is Setting" on the British Empire!

    11-Year-Old Banned from Class Trip for Eating Chocolate

    An 11-year-old girl was sent home from a week-long school trip because she ate a chocolate bar. Her school’s headmistress found out about the confectionery crime only by snooping on a private letter that Holli McCann had written to her mother.

    Holli’s mother Kerri McCann had to borrow money in order to make the 160-mile trip to the Isle of White to pick up her daughter. McCann, who is unemployed and must care for her autistic son, said she has no idea why the school feels chocolate is unsafe.
    Teachers ransacked Holli’s room and went through her things. They even removed the lining of her suitcase.

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  • lxskllr
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    • Sep 2007
    • 13435

    #2
    She learned a valuable lesson about the modern surveillance state, of which, the UK is the vanguard other tyrannies aspire to. She should have used email with GPG encryption.

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    • Darwin
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      • Mar 2010
      • 1372

      #3
      Combine the modern surveillance state with the modern nanny state and the result is an entity to which the Borg could only aspire in their collective dreams.

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      • spinyeel
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        • Aug 2009
        • 175

        #4
        This makes a complete mockery of the so called Privacy Laws.
        I'm just thankfull that I spent my childhood,teenage and 20s years in an era when freedom of choice still existed.
        It's all about control and THEY are winning.

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