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Path: num1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!number.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!goblin3!goblin1!goblin.stu.neva.ru!hq-usenetpeers.eweka.nl!81.171.88.15.MISMATCH!eweka.nl!lightspeed.eweka.nl!zen.net.uk!hamilton.zen.co.uk!prichard.zen.co.uk.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID:  From: Guy Cuthbertson  Newsgroups: uk.rec.cycling Subject: Re: How many? Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 23:50:03 -0000 References:    Lines: 33 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: MicroPlanet-Gravity/2.9.14 X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 100111-0, 11/01/2010), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean Organization: Zen Internet NNTP-Posting-Host: 39a9106d.news.zen.co.uk X-Trace: DXC=I3WmQ^O`5`OIN;ZT4CD\kB0g@SS;SF6nGR9OH0:RnEND\C, budstaffdotusegroup@btinternet.com says... > > "The Medway Handyman"  wrote in message > news:Ytv0n.22078$Ym4.7615@text.news.virginmedia.com... > > Budstaff wrote: > >> With the first decade of the new millennium now gone, does anyone > >> have any provisional figures for the number of people I (and all the > >> other cyclists who approve of speed cameras) murdered during that > >> time? > > > > None. Neither has any single motorist. > > > > Murder - The unlawful killing of a human being, under the Queen's Peace, > > with "malice aforethought". > > > > Typical idiot cyclist fuckwit question really. > > > > > Glad you cleared that up. Perhaps you'd be so good as to arrange for all the > other non-cyclist fuckwits to stop infesting the ng with allegations of > murder.

What would you call someone who advocates, and has influence over, measures which they know to be killing thousands of people a year? You may or may not call it "murder" but the result is much the same: the needless taking of innocent peoples' lives for selfish reasons (in this case, of all things, a hatred of motorists...what an incredibly petty reason for deciding to kill so many people).

So come on, since you started this: what would you call someone who advocates, and has influence over, measures which they know to be killing thousands of people a year?