By Robert Farago
May 19, 2008 -
I mean, how much worse can the UK's anti-speeding jihad get? Aside from actually making shit up, oh wait, that's what they did. Kent County's police officers issued speeding tickets to people who weren't speeding. (More than this and the fact that a member of the force was suspended, the police will not reveal.) So how can the Kent County constabulary act even more reprehensibly towards motorists? By not reversing the speeding fines and points illegally "awarded" to drivers. And yet, Pistonhead reports that Kent police "have dropped 200 speeding charges after allegations an officer rigged roadside checks – but do not plan to notify the rest of the motorists caught." You must be joking. Nope. According to Motorcycle News, a serving Kent officer said that not everyone caught by the operator will be notified because "files are only kept for one year and the cost would be very significant." Folks, keep in mind that one speeding conviction in the UK puts you two speeding convictions away from license revocation, with all of the economic hardship that implies. And ANY points on your license translate into higher insurance premiums. Not to mention the erosion of public confidence in/support for the police. What's it going to take to get the UK government to end this self-financing holy war against its own, otherwise law-abiding citizenry?
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May 19th, 2008 at 10:29 am
Revolution!
Oops, too bad they banned guns.
May 19th, 2008 at 10:53 am
Before grabbing their guns, they could take other less dramatic actions, such as voting for different politicians, writing letters to their representatives, or suing in the courts. Considering they don’t appear willing to do that, I doubt they would be too willing to grab their guns and blow away the cops’ heads.
May 19th, 2008 at 11:02 am
Sigh, no Constitution or Bill of Rights.
I bet they say “Yes, me Lord” quite a bit.
May 19th, 2008 at 11:22 am
No constitution or bill of rights? So what?! We have rights and freedoms just like any other country, the real problem is what liechter mentioned, not enough people writing letters to representatives.
Over the past couple of decades speeding’s started to become one of those things that is looked down upon by a significant portion of the population, so the safety lobby is a lot louder than the anti-ticketing lobby. Partly for this reason, it’s not a major issue at any election, so voting for different politicians won’t solve anything, there’s no MPs (members of parliament) that I know of who actively campaign against speeding tickets, and there’s definately no party with any sort of speeding leniency on their agenda.
If more and more of these people banded together, especially those who can prove they have been wrongly convicted, then maybe the over-zealous (in the view of most of this forum at least) speed enoforcement would start to be reversed.
May 19th, 2008 at 11:31 am
I saw a werewolf with a Chinese menu in his hand
Walking through the streets of Soho in the rain
He was looking for a place called Lee Ho Fook’s
Going to get himself a big dish of beef chow mein
Werewolves of London
If you hear him howling around your kitchen door
Better not let him in
Little old lady got mutilated late last night
Werewolves of London again
He’s the hairy-handed gent who ran amuck in Kent
Lately he’s been overheard in Mayfair
Better stay away from him
He’ll rip your lungs out, Jim
I’d like to meet his tailor
Werewolves of London
Werewolves of London by Warren Zevon
May 19th, 2008 at 11:33 am
It ain’t that pretty at all.
May 19th, 2008 at 11:41 am
just need to raise the fuel and property taxes to help fund the police…
or, perhaps the police could help show some budget constraint…
or, maybe a bit of both…
May 19th, 2008 at 12:13 pm
I’m proud to live in Lexington Massachusetts, where we started the revolution against those bastards. Down with the British! (The rulers, of course, not the citizenry.)
May 19th, 2008 at 1:12 pm
Robert Schwartz :
May 19th, 2008 at 11:31 am
If you’re taking requests I’d like to hear “Roland” next.
May 19th, 2008 at 1:28 pm
I guess the cop who tweaked his gun to catch innocent motorists was just an excitable boy.
May 19th, 2008 at 2:24 pm
Wow, that story reminds me of this…
“There’s no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren’t enough criminals one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. Who wants a nation of law-abiding citizens? What’s there in that for anyone?” (’Atlas Shrugged’ 1957)
May 19th, 2008 at 4:12 pm
The funny thing is they pay twice as much for those cars that they’re not allowed to drive fast in…
May 19th, 2008 at 4:18 pm
Mj0lnir: Sorry. It’s going to be “Lawyers, Guns, and Money”.