Nuxx:C20918a3-4aca-490b-9b29-4ef3b8ad4639@n17g2000vba.googlegroups.com

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On Apr 2, 9:57=A0am, Doug  wrote: > One of the benefits of the G20 protests in London yesterday, thanks to > the police, were many streets closed to motorised vehicles. > Pedestrians and cyclists were free to wander around slowly and lowly > together without fear of death, apart from the threatening batons of > some riot police.

So what is it that you actually want to happen? Do you want all cars banned? And why do you keep pretending that you dislike cars for idealistic or "anarchic" reasons when you have previously admitted that you only don't like them because you can't benefit from them yourself anymore? Isn't that a bit of a self-centred, spiteful reason for wanting to bully everyone else out of their cars? Do you apply the "If I can't have it then no-one can" rule to everything, or is it just cars? Either way, that doesn't sound like anarchy, it just sounds like plain, straightforward, hate-filled envy. In other words, socialism.

Let's face it, even if motoring was somehow made 100% safe and good for the environment, you'd still hate cars. "Safety" and "the environment" aren't your reasons for hating cars, they're just excuses that you use.

Oh, and BTW, why do you choose this newsgroup for your anti-car rants? Is it because you feel that it has a high number of anti- motorist posters, even if many of them don't admit it? (Did someone say "Chapman"? Or was it "Spindrift"?)