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Plus you have The Mirror trying to shepherd the people, but be on the other side of the fence. That's what make me sick about my home country, but being in the USA isn't saying much... it's just like most of the major the news channels model themselves on the worst and most insidious UK rag; The Daily Mail (i.e. Do gooders, point the blame on someone else, etc).

Plus, on one side our PM is Bush's lapdog, and on the other he is being the high school tease with the rest of Europe... and the politicians wonder why there is so much voter apathy!

Actually yes i think you are right, mostly. the link i was trying to find was one of a husband and wife, whoes car was photo`d speeding. When they got the summons 2 months later (yes, the uk police are that slow) neither could remember who it was driving, so they said that in court. And they got off scott free. It was in some national newspapers at the time, specifically the daily mail but i cant get to that site atm.

Gosh, I wish private firearms were legal over here. Then we could resist the state's endless desire to control our lives, like you lucky people in the USA.

On a more serious note... *shrug* who cares? Cars are a menace, anything that discourages their use is a good thing in my book. (Hope that doesn't sound like a troll; it really is what I think.) Civil liberties angle? Pffft, this is the country where you can be jailed for five years for losing your PGP provate key, and the same again for telling third parties that the Govt. has seized your keys (and thus encrypted communication is compromised.) There are five CCTV cameras between me and my local pub. But I haven't been mugged (or in deed a victim of any crime) in 7 years in Brixton, supposedly the crime centre of the London inner city according to the Daily Fascis^h^h Mail.