Planning to fine people who throw away scraps of food. Worse, he's going to direct trash collectors to go through your garbage to see if you're guilty!
First of all, I can't believe we're considering electing this guy Governor... does anyone think that what California really needs is more fees, fine, taxes, and regulations? Not to mention all the new public employees they'll have to hire to carry out those fines.
Second... once you start fining every little individual action a person might engage in over the course of the day, and PAYING certain citizens to spy on their fellow citizens... it's not exactly a big leap from fines to jail time... and from there it's just one more tiny step to 1984.
"The thought police would get him just the same. He had committed--would have committed, even if he had never set pen to paper--the essential crime that contained all others in itself. Thoughtcrime, they called it. Thoughtcrime was not a thing that could be concealed forever. You might dodge successfully for a while, even for years, but sooner or later they were bound to get you."
- George Orwell, 1984, Book 1, Chapter 1"
"Don't you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought?... Has it ever occurred to your, Winston, that by the year 2050, at the very latest, not a single human being will be alive who could understand such a conversation as we are having now?... The whole climate of thought will be different. In fact, there will be no thought, as we understand it now. Orthodoxy means not thinking—not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness."
- George Orwell, 1984, Book 1, Chapter 5
"It was terribly dangerous to let your thoughts wander when you were in any public place or within range of a telescreen. The smallest thing could give you away. A nervous tic, an unconscious look of anxiety, a habit of muttering to yourself--anything that carried with it the suggestion of abnormality, of having something to hide. In any case, to wear an improper expression on your face...; was itself a punishable offense. There was even a word for it in Newspeak: facecrime..."
- George Orwell, 1984, Book 1, Chapter 5
All 1984 quotes taken from this site.
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