The Worst Country in the Whole Wide World

[Russell Street]

The deleted member fiasco seems to have lead to the deletion of the original thread chronicling the continued demise of the once great British Empire, so now it (the thread, not friggin England) must be rebuilt.

Let's start with the fact that this is where new super-snoopy self-checkout machines have been developed to profile you and suspect you of shoplifting.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/...heckouts-could-socially-profile-shoppers.html

 

[Fwiffo]

Reckon the tills in Brixton or Croydon flag dodgy people based on skin colour.

 

[Robert]

I'm voting for the States.

http://glenngreenwald.net/pdf/NoPlaceToHide-Documents-Compressed.pdf

 

[Grand Potentate]

We're certainly hovering around the top of the list.

 

[Grand Potentate]

This is a good reason to include Russia:

http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/news/putin-clamps-down-a-chilling-report-from-moscow-20140430

 

[Robert]

Deffo the States.

http://www.macleans.ca/politics/america-dumbs-down/

 

[Allen Smithee]

They built a town to practice police brutality on unruly subjects. Nice.
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/...e-riot-training-in-fake-kent-town-in-pictures