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The definition of fascism?
Re previous posts about the fabricated “crime” of “speeding”. Statutory traffic law allows no defence, no arguments on rational or commonsense grounds. The system inures itself against reform by forbidding voices to be raised in challenge. It’s a self-serving monster.
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Tagged Equality Streets, fascism, speeding, statutory traffic law, traffic regulation
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Hit by a bus
The phrase, “You could be killed crossing the road” is a thoughtlessly-repeated phrase, e.g. the other day on The Today Programme by Chief Medical Officer, Chris Whitty (10.1. 2021, I think it was). Making some parallel with the risk of … Continue reading
Anyone for tennis? Nope
I’m no fan of the term “nanny state” because good nannies enable rather than disable human flourishment. Blanket lockdown rules that outlaw activities such as tennis among people capable of exercising due care are akin to rigid speed limits that … Continue reading
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Tagged BRAKE!, Equality Streets, lockdown rules, speed limits, speeding
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Mugged by the system
During a perfectly safe overtaking manoeuvre on an otherwise empty dual lane stretch of the A361 Link Rd, I’m clocked doing 73 in a 60 by a concealed radar gun. The road is clear and the weather fine. No harm … Continue reading
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Tagged A361, DfT, Equality Streets, Link Road, speeding, statutory traffic law, traffic law, transport ministers
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Speeding: a fabricated crime
Motorists who fall foul of traffic regulation are rarely real criminals. Captain, now Sir Tom Moore, the NHS fundraising hero, admitted to breaking the speed limit hundreds of times. In doing so, he probably only hurt the odd fly. Harriet … Continue reading
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Tagged Chris Huhne, Equality Streets, Fiona Onasanya, Martin Cassini, speeding, the system, traffic regulation
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Cool Hand Fluke
I realise now that everything about my challenge to the speeding ticket was irrelevant to the Court. And everything that statutory law stands for – numbers instead of context – is irrelevant to me. So what we had was a … Continue reading
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Tagged Cool Hand Luke, Equality Streets, speeding, speeding fine
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No human dimension
It came as a shock to see how uninterested Courts are in matters concerning nuances in human behaviour, context and prevailing conditions, system defects, and justice. To the exclusion of all else, it fixates on numbers, blame, and, it appears, … Continue reading
Illegal pollution and road closures
Like most traffic “experts” on the BBC, Prof Andrew Lewis failed to mention on the World at One (7.12.20) the role of traffic lights in producing congestion, and contributing to the premature death of 9 year-old Ella Kissi-Debrah. Will the … Continue reading
Road pricing?
The song Taxman by George Harrison and John Lennon has the lines, “If you drive a car we’ll tax the street … If you take a walk we’ll tax your feet”. Traffic regulation costs tens of billions a year yet fails to keep us … Continue reading