@geordie
I'm more than upset about the miriad of laws throwing away our rights than the speeding/parking issue.

This is one where we can fight back against rights being hurled out the window.

A few:

right to silence
right to peaceful protest
right to peaceful assembly
freedom of movement

There's hundreds of rights that have gone awol in the last 10 years alone, and a lot of them have gone with public support.

People think, "ok, he was speeding" his rights should be revoked. Or, even "he was a kiddy fiddler, his rights should be revoked".

Now, those are extremes, but the point about rights is that everyone is entitled to them.

In this little debate, rights are being ignored in the name of "thousands of people speed and therefore we should ignore one or two of their rights" and yet, in the second instance, their rights (what's left of them) would be intact.

About the motorist in theUK being Cunts, I think you'll find it's one of (if not THE) safest place to drive in Europe. You are four times more likely to die in a road crash in France for instance. Yet the figure (in real terms) of deaths on our roads hasn't dropped significantly since 1992. So clearly imposing studidly low speed limits has very little effect.
(dchurch bah, Thu 21 Aug 2008, 12:40, Reply)