What Orwell Didn't Know About Elitist 'Scum' Villages

Daily Bell

Amsterdam is to create "Scum villages" where nuisance neighbours and anti-social tenants will be exiled from the city and rehoused in caravans or containers with "minimal services" under constant police supervision. The plan echoes a proposal from Geert Wilders, the leader of a populist Dutch Right-wing party. Holland's capital already has a special hit squad of municipal officials to identify the worst offenders for a compulsory six month course in how to behave. – UK Telegraph

Dominant Social Theme: We need to be free of these thugs and thieves.

Free-Market Analysis: We've written many articles about the advent of private cities – run by multinationals in league with local or national governments.

But it never occurred to us that the elites organizing this particular form of infrastructure would provide us with the other side of the organized corporate city – the criminal city.

One can already hear the computers being revved up as a thousand science fiction books are soon to be churned out. Actually, "Escape From New York" already mined this particular meme.

We understand the larger dominant social theme, of course. The best and brightest live in special cities while the rest of us struggle to get by. A subdominant social theme would be that "some are deserving and others are not."

But now there are to be cities devoted specifically to have-nots – the socially maladroit. Let's wait and see how soon that definition changes. We will watch as the definitions change. Soon those who want different and freer societies will be targeted, in our view.

The initial social engineering is always justified to resolve the problems posed by a criminal element. But the target is inevitably those who oppose the enlargement of Leviathan. Consigned to a 21st century Hell, they will be attended to, guarded and watched over by the larger judicial system. Here's more from the article:

Social housing problem families or tenants who do not show an improvement or refuse to go to the special units face eviction and homelessness.

Eberhard van der Laan, Amsterdam's Labour mayor, has tabled the £810,000 plan to tackle 13,000 complaints of anti-social behaviour every year. He complained that long-term harassment often leads to law abiding tenants, rather than their nuisance neighbours, being driven out.

"This is the world turned upside down," the mayor said at the weekend.

The project also involves setting up a special hotline and system for victims to report their problems to the authorities.

The new punishment housing camps have been dubbed "scum villages" because the plan echoes a proposal from Geert Wilders, the leader of a populist Dutch Right-wing party, for special units to deal with persistent troublemakers.

"Repeat offenders should be forcibly removed from their neighbourhood and sent to a village for scum," he suggested last year. "Put all the trash together."

Whilst denying that the new projects would be punishment camps for "scum", a spokesman for the city mayor stressed that the special residential units would aim to enforce good behaviour.

"The aim is not to reward people who behave badly with a new five-room home with a south-facing garden. This is supposed to be a deterrent," he said.

We would expect no less from modern municipal planners. The article goes on to tell us that this project has already been tried out on a small scale using "10 shipping container homes ... The residents are under "24-hour supervision from social workers and police."

How this is different than an actual prison is hard to say, from our point of view. And how those who are pursuing the project are going to make it successful is hard to tell, as well.

After all, we learn, "In the 19th century, troublemakers were moved to special villages in Drenthe and Overijssel outside Amsterdam. The villages were rarely successful, becoming sink estates for the lawless."

That's no surprise and neither is a quote from the Mayor's office: "We have learned from the past. A neighbourhood can deal with one problem family but if there are more the situation escalates."

Yes, it is ever thus. The state uses force in order to "protect" the middle class. But really, no protection is ever intended. What are being set are precedents. And eventually these same precedents are to be used against the middle classes that believe their governments are working on their behalf.

They are not.

Governments are run these days by a power elite that is intent on creating world government. The sorts of social engineering schemes we are seeing nowadays just scratch the surface of what is to come.

The basic animating force is that people society favors will be rewarded. We see this already in the US, where "favored travelers" with security clearance are whisked through airports while those who are less "trusted" wait in line, stigmatized by the label of "potential terrorist."

But the future the power elite wants to create will be far more complex and subtle than this. It will also be all encompassing and brutal. The idea will be to create a permanent subclass of subservient humans who will be adept at producing the tools that global governance demands. The rest will struggle along in varying degrees of obscurity and desperation.

And those with the most imagination – the ones that are endlessly problematic for the top elites – will find themselves consigned to "scum" villages.

Conclusion: Orwell had no idea ...

Death By A Thousand Cuts

by Jurriaan Maessen
Infowars.com, Mar. 24, 2012
As yet another voice within the scientific community joins the choir
the tremors of tyranny are being felt all over the surface of freedom - which sadly is already extremely thin. This is by no means the first call for world government. It’s routinely being called for by all creatures that rock to the rhythm of globalism. And it is this particular species of the human race we should turn our attention towards.

There was a time when we were enveloped in the everyday bustle of our lives, pursuing simple pleasures- now we find ourselves, almost without knowing it, armed and ready for battle.

Whether we know it or not, we as freedom-loving people are slowly but surely amassing on a huge field of battle. The entire transition runs along the strangest lines- with sudden changes and lapses, with cinematic cross-references and dream-like winks, allowing no time for analysis on the spot but all the more for wonder and awe, leaving us wondering how on earth did we end up fighting a battle we never sought. It seems we were summoned to secure the interests of life, and by securing them we throw our weights onto the enemy that’s in front of us. Like the warrior, we do not have the luxury of moving around the pieces on the chessboard, or change our minds at pleasure. Nothing is easy. Every strike counts.

Every call for world government, every disclosed diary, every bold statement on reducing human population (and every subsequent global policy directive) is indicative of certain subsurface activities - of broader stirrings which are so all-engulfing in nature, that the only way not to be overwhelmed by them is to concentrate on the symptoms through which the disease reveals itself. Although all news is symptomatic in the end - all “current events” mere shadows dancing on a screen - the way to engage the enemy is to snatch these shadows from the screen, pull them by the tail and expose them for what they really are: phantoms created by the elite. As soon as these phantoms are exposed to clear skies, the shadows will cease to be shadows and disappear. An effective way of countering the road to disaster mapped out by the elite is to catch the criminals at every turn, and do it every time- that’s the trick. And this will ensure the structure these people have constructed around the planet will fall. Because the devil’s in the details, as the saying goes, it is the details we must now target.

Acting along the principle of “death by a thousand cuts” will eventually bring the puppet masters to their knees. Anything too great in the onset will quickly collapse under its own weight.