Motorcycle Forum / Country Specific / UK Group / September 2008

It's pretty much par for the course with the present government,
gestures to try and get some attention form their mainly mouth
breathing supporters.

Timo Geusch <tnewsSPAMMENOT@unixconsult.co.uk> wrote in message
<m2bpy8crhh.fsf@unixconsult.co.uk>:

I must admit I didn't like *any* part.  It's simply legislation to
pander to the lobbyists; like a lot done by this government (and
possibly also past tory governments.)

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I'm convinced I'm safer driving whilst (moderately) drunk than half of
the fuckwits I watch every f.cking day.  There ought to be an aptitude
test rather than an inebriation test.

And re the legal system being a bit too important; I don't know if I
agree.  I think it's f.cked anyway and as long as it doesn't convict me
or mine I don't give much of a sh.t.

Nail - Hammer, a perfect meeting of the two.

So drive *seriously* fast and they won't detect you.

i see tv voting on motorway security camera footage in a game show stylee
becoming the way forward.

Your orifice is the problem, it puts a hole in your argument.

On 28 Sep, 14:47, Timo Geusch <tnewsSPAMME...@unixconsult.co.uk>
wrote:

We no longer have 'Parking Attendants', which in turn superceded
'Traffic Wardens'.  We have 'Civil Enforcement Officers', something
which were introduced earlier this year as a result of the Traffic
Management Act 2004.

They have more powers than the outgoing Parking Attendants, and you
will continue to see an increase in the powers granted to both these,
PCSOs and those plastic policeman Highways Agency bods who plod along
our motorways in gay coloured 4x4s, as the screws are turned by the
Government (1).

I believe the term some are using is 'policing on the cheap'... I
personally believe there is a much deeper, far reaching 'powers that
be' agenda driving it all.

Oh, and I couldn't give a flying f.ck whether or not anyone thinks I'm
paranoid in stating the above - open your eyes and look around you at
things like the general monitoring of people, be it by way of CCTV,
ANPR, card transactions, mobile communications etc.

And then consider that at present, we're not seeing the bulk of the
powers quietly put in place over the last few years being wielded to
the letter - 'anti terrorist laws' with the right of detention - the
measures that have been brought in under that can be used against
*all* of us, not just some pesky ragheads seen wearing a rucksack.

You no longer have the right the protest unless the police happen to
give you permission?

From what I've read and been told by someone who bothered to stand up
and be counted about what went on over at the Kingsnorth Power Station
protest recently, what would appear to be a very heavy handed approach
was taken by the police, with overkill in terms the manpower allocated
to 'quelling the uprising' - I believe at one point there were 1500
protestors on site, and 1500 police???

I may or may not agree with whatever they (and other groups who choose
to be vocal in society), were protesting about... but I expect any
fair and just society to allow whoever, the right to peaceful protest
within reason, and without the need for the system, so to speak, to
resort to oppressive methods such as the above in reply to it.

What about the guy aggrieved about Iraq who set up camp outside the
Houses of Parliament, and the legislation brought in as a result of
him not agreeing to go away quietly?

Whatever, the general answer to all of societies lesser ills (2)
appears at present to be by way of fining people.  And it's going to
get a lot worse, hence why you're seeing articles in the press like
the one you've posted above.

(1) And by 'Government', I mean any party that gets in - some things
will of course change, but the overall agenda with regards to how the
system treats the people within it, will carry on in the manner in
which it has been for some time, now.

(2) With what constitues an 'ill' growing constantly due to the huge
raft of extra legislation being constantly drafted in and quietly
being put into place by the Government.  It really won't be long
before you'll have a methane meter strapped to your arse and you'll be
fined for any 'harmful emissions' you emit.

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JackH