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Path: num2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!num1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!number.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!postnews.google.com!news4.google.com!feeder.news-service.com!feeds.phibee-telecom.net!dedekind.zen.co.uk!zen.net.uk!hamilton.zen.co.uk!prichard.zen.co.uk.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID:  From: "Just zis Guy, you know?"  Newsgroups: uk.rec.cycling Subject: My Name's Guy and I'm a Car-Hater Date: Sun, 1 Nov 2009 15:54:14 -0000 Lines: 46 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: MicroPlanet-Gravity/2.9.13 X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 091031-0, 31/10/2009), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean Organization: Zen Internet NNTP-Posting-Host: 1539e4b6.news.zen.co.uk X-Trace: DXC=JaElN4K^lCC0nUUdB:^^mD0g@SS;SF6nGR9OH0:RnENDIE5lU]eA[nK`:ITG5aA:cGDP28VL62G?I X-Complaints-To: abuse@zen.co.uk Bytes: 3825 Xref: perfectly-safe.chapmancentral.co.uk uk.rec.cycling:740506

It's time for me to admit that I've got a problem with car-hating. The reason I hate cars is because I don't think that anyone (except me) should be put in control of anything remotely powerful: no-one but me is anywhere near trustworthy or skilful enough. Being a Labour supporter I also dislike the individual freedom which the car gives people; we'd all be better off if everyone (except me) was constantly being controlled and monitored by the state, so it's right that car drivers are being spied upon, restricted and persecuted more and more, with the eventual goal of stopping everyone (except me) from driving altogether.

Until now I have denied that I hate cars, despite how obvious it's been to people (even my pathetic little helpers, not that they'd ever admit it) for a long time. I have instead used genuinely important issues like safety and the environment as an excuse to advocate anti-motorist measures. In particular, speed cameras are an excellent weapon against the normal, law-abiding motorist, and so I'm a great supporter of them. It's a pity that the cameras kill people rather than saving lives, but that's a small price to pay when you consider just how difficult they're making the life of most drivers (did you know that the 85th percentile speed is statistically the safest? So by setting the speed limit below that speed, the safest drivers are criminalised.  Isn't that great for us car-haters?  And who cares what a disastrous effect it has on road safety?  Killing people is worth it in the short term if it means that motorists are persecuted into using other forms of transport, and I'm sure no sane person would disagree with that).

Fellow car-haters who lie about it, there is no need to hide anymore: join me in coming clean about your guilty obsession with making things difficult for people who are just trying to get around in the most (and possibly only) practical way. Join me in admitting that you're so hellbent on pissing off drivers that you're prepared for *all* types of road user, even cyclists, to lose their lives unnecessarily in order for it to happen. Join me in admitting to being a car-hating piece of shit who doesn't give a stuff about anyone or anything except the perverted thrills that he gets from making people suffer, over and over again, simply for the way in which they travel. Because after all, it's the opinions of me and those who agree with me which are most important, and which must be forced upon everyone, all the time, in the most bullying and unpleasant way possible.

And yes, I did post as Lou Knee. That's another thing that I've refused to tell the truth about until now, but I've decided that all the lying has to stop: I need to set a better example to those who I'm superior to (i.e. everyone).

Guy