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Path: number1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!postnews.google.com!p20g2000yqi.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Message-ID: <96d65dc9-1130-4bed-83f1-b5b29b9c234a@p20g2000yqi.googlegroups.com> From: Nuxx Bar  Newsgroups: uk.rec.cycling Subject: "Reckless"? Don't Be Silly Date: Sun, 15 Mar 2009 09:36:39 -0700 (PDT) Lines: 31 Organization: http://groups.google.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 81.156.251.147 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1237134999 19811 127.0.0.1 (15 Mar 2009 16:36:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 15 Mar 2009 16:36:39 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: p20g2000yqi.googlegroups.com; posting-host=81.156.251.147; posting-account=7_6kYAkAAABD6HrjM0VxehwvZOKMxm4g User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-GB; rv:1.9.0.7) Gecko/2009021910 Firefox/3.0.7 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729),gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Bytes: 3024 Xref: perfectly-safe.chapmancentral.co.uk uk.rec.cycling:828446

It's perfectly simple. All regular drivers speed, whatever the liars may say. Therefore those who make out that speeding is reckless and dangerous are saying that all drivers exhibit reckless and dangerous behaviour every time they drive anywhere, and are therefore fundamentally irresponsible, selfish and inconsiderate. Now who on Earth would want to make out that all ~32 million motorists in this country were fundamentally irresponsible, selfish and inconsiderate, except for someone who hated cars and those who chose to drive them?

Anyone who didn't despise motorists just for driving at all would agree that it was ludicrous to label "irresponsible" or "dangerous" a behaviour that every motorist indulged in, and would realise (openly) that there were other reasons for that behaviour. Car-haters, on the other hand, would be only too eager to brand such a behaviour with every hysterical word under the sun. They see "speeding" as the perfect way to have a go at, restrict and persecute every single motorist while using "safety" as an excuse. No wonder they exhibit such frenzied, psychopathic, screeching hatred towards anyone who dares to show that speeding in itself isn't dangerous. It's just a shame (for them) that their continued evasion of key questions and their continued restatement of debunked theories, fraudulent statistics and outright lies shows unequivocally what their real game is.

"Reckless" to drive at 79mph on an empty motorway, or at 35mph on a road that used to be NSL? It's absurd. It really is. Just absurd. I don't think anyone could possibly be truly stupid enough to think otherwise, so those who say that they do can only be lying. And those who tell lies in relation to road safety in order to pursue their own agendas are scum who are making the roads more dangerous for all of us in the end. They have BLOOD ON THEIR HANDS.