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In article , del.copeland@tiscali.co.uk says... > > I knew that it was too good to last! I have just had another perfectly > polite reply to answer a previous posters question rejected by the > urcm moderators! Also that bullying so-and-so Ian Jackson has just had > a go at me on this site as well. Of course, all his psycholist mates > are allowed to post what they want!

Jackson is a bully and no question. A nasty piece of work who has no time for differing opinions. He rides his bike extremely recklessly as well, so I've heard. So when he claims to care about "road safety" then it's actually just an excuse to advocate restrictions on motorists (you get that with other clique members as well of course).

Obviously you've picked up by now that particular opinions (and even unrelated posts by those who are known to hold such opinions) are effectively banned on URCM (although the "moderators" can't admit that because they would quite rightly be denied the use of a newsgroup for such a purpose). And of course the reason why the psycholists are so vehemently against the advocation of helmets is that *no* restrictions on cycling must *ever* be promoted, however sensible, and however many lives they save. Advocating helmets at all is bad enough, but advocating any kind of compulsion to wear helmets is out of the question straight away, simply because it goes against the ludicrous idea that no laws should apply to cyclists because they're using a "morally superior" form of transport (and, conversely, plainly unnecessary and draconian restrictions should be inflicted on motorists as often as possible because all drivers are baby-killing, planet-destroying, selfish monsters). The "morally superior" thing is also why motorists are always at fault in crashes, and cyclists never are.

It's all so pathetic, and the fact that they've gone to the trouble of setting up a private club masquerading as a moderated newsgroup just shows how determined these people are to be pathetic.