Posted on 12/19/2005 8:30:57 PM PST by Pikamax
The road-rage lobby couldn't have been more wrong. Organisations such as the Association of British Drivers or Safe Speed - the boy racers' club masquerading as a road-safety campaign - have spent years claiming that speeding doesn't cause accidents. Safe Speed, with the help of some of the most convoluted arguments I've ever read, even seeks to prove that speed cameras "make our roads more dangerous". Other groups, such as Motorists Against Detection (officially known as Mad), have been toppling, burning and blowing up the hated cameras. These and about a thousand such campaigns maintain that speed limits, speed traps and the government's "war on the motorist" are shakedown operations whose sole purpose is to extract as much money as possible from the poor oppressed driver.
Well last week the Department for Transport published the results of the study it had commissioned into the efficacy of its speed cameras. It found that the number of drivers speeding down the roads where fixed cameras had been installed fell by 70%, and the number exceeding the speed limit by more than 15mph dropped by 91%. As a result, 42% fewer people were killed or seriously injured in those places than were killed or injured on the same stretches before the cameras were erected. The number of deaths fell by more than 100 a year. The people blowing up speed cameras have blood on their hands.
But this is not, or not really, an article about speed, or cameras, or even cars. It is about the rise of the antisocial bastards who believe they should be allowed to do what they want, whenever they want, regardless of the consequences.
(Excerpt) Read more at guardian.co.uk ...
"I can no longer sit back and allow Communist infiltration, Communist indoctrination, Communist subversion and the international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids."
Don't underestimate our idiots here in Alaska!The State Supremes recently ruled that homosexual couples are entitled to State benefits just like married spouses. BTW I agree with you. Not quite ready to jump ship to Libertarian party but totally fed up with the repubs. Kind of come to realize repubs like socialism on slow track as opposed to the fast track demos.
Sorry, didn't mean it that way necessarily. My point is that legislators from one region of the country don't necessarily know or understand the views from citizens of respective states from other regions. Because of that view, they shouldn't have the say on what we choose for our moral laws, if we choose to establish some form of moral laws, here in NC. The original intent of the Constitution allowed this. However Republicans and Democrats will be the force to tear it down.
Is he talking about the government?
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