Sounds like the beginnings of a slippery slope to eugenics, therapeutic abortion, and a Final Solution.
Or shades of Minority Report where you're arrested before you commit a crime
this should help to ship them off to the colonies or Australia before they really damage English society.
The penal colonies are better able to handle these people.
>>> Sounds like the beginnings <<<<
No it's more like a revival
A good book to read:
The State Boys Rebellion
http://www.simonsays.com/content/content.cfm?sid=33&pid=422319
It’s interesting that Germany looked to the US for it’s ideas on eugenics.
Excerpt from link:
Though they couldn't possible know it, the children of the Fernald State School were the victims of bad science and a newly developed bureaucracy designed to save America from the so-called "menace of the feebleminded." Beginning early in the twentieth century, United States health officials used crude versions of the modern IQ tests to identify supposedly "deficient" children and lock them away. The idea was to protect society from potential criminals and to prevent so-called undesirables from having children and degrading the American gene pool......
...... It reveals the danger in misguided science, the fearsome power of unchecked bureaucracies,