"This is for your good!"

This is an excerpt from an article about municipal madness in Britain but could easily be descriptive of almost any council in Australia. The madness that has taken hold of the bureaucratic drones that live to populate town and city councils has become blight on all who seek to live with minimum 'Big Brother' interference.

Time was, too, that most parish councillors saw themselves as servants, not masters, of their community.

Today, the majority of those who work in every level of ‘public service’ seem to regard the public, at best, as an inconvenience and, at worst, as the enemy.

OK, admittedly the Jobsworth mentality has always been with us, but the ubiquitous urge on the part of so-called ‘public servants’ to bully and punish their fellow citizens has never been more prevalent.

There are few things more totalitarian than the often career stunted, power obsessed, moralistic (whose 'morals' are probably relativistic in the first place) wowser who somehow is elected to a position that few aspire to but then believes that it is his/her duty to impose the latest politically correct fads on all within her/his municipal jurisdiction.
Fads which are all-to-often communicated as being for the unfortunate recipients 'well-being'.

UPDATE
In Australia we see the 'Human Rights Commission' (LoL) perpetrating more pain on the unsuspecting population and indeed seeking for new ways in which to do this:

In 2001, for instance, Equal Opportunity Commission Victoria’s chairman admitted: “I am not aware of any conclusive evidence that suggests that discrimination is increasing.”

But instead of celebrating a good job well done, the EOCV decided it needed to find more customers…

It pushed the then Labor Government to pass absurdly wide new laws against racial and religious vilification that would define even more Australians as racists and bigots.

It worked brilliantly, catching people you’d never have dreamed would be hauled before the thought police.

They included a Salvation Army prison chaplain who handed biblical literature to a sex offender who was a witch, two Christian pastors who’d made their congregation laugh by accurately quoting passages from the Koran urging jihad, and a humble Herald Sun columnist who had outraged a One Nation supporter by praising Asian students generally for their study ethic — a comment that apparently “demeaned” Anglo Saxons.

Sure, the complaints in each case were eventually dismissed, but at what cost? What worry?

Our federal race commissioners have lusted for the same solution.
One, Zita Antonias, admitted a decade ago that complaints of racism had fallen by more than a third, but we couldn’t possibly be that nice: “The figures are incongruent with anecdotal evidence.”

Tom Calma, who succeeded her, was so frustrated at being unable to prove we had many (white) Australian racists that he asked the Rudd government to boost the supply by changing the law, so that people accused of being racists now had to prove they were not, a reversal of the burden of proof that makes us all racists until we can show otherwise.
 

 Shameful and disturbing that we, the Australian population have allowed the bureaucratic 'hitlers' of this world to so dominate the national conversation.