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Path: num2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!num1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!number.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border3.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!postnews.google.com!news3.google.com!feeder.news-service.com!tudelft.nl!txtfeed1.tudelft.nl!dedekind.zen.co.uk!zen.net.uk!hamilton.zen.co.uk!reader02.news.zen.co.uk.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <4e259702$0$2948$fa0fcedb@news.zen.co.uk> From: Nuxx Bar  Newsgroups: uk.rec.cycling Subject: Re: Dalmeny kids' challenge leaves cars standing Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2011 15:38:57 +0100 References:  Lines: 39 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.7; en-US; rv:1.9.2.18) Gecko/20110616 Thunderbird/3.1.11 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To:  Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: Zen Internet NNTP-Posting-Host: 949c296e.news.zen.co.uk X-Trace: DXC=K]naC;`7im_1i>g:<=BiJQYjZGX^207P[` > PUPILS at Dalmeny Primary School have been congratulated in the Scottish > Parliament over their Zero Car Challenge Day.

Ah yes, one of the core pillars of the car-haters' strategy: as with religion, indoctrinate them while they're still young, still receptive to everything that adults tell them, and unable to challenge falsehoods with logic (and even if they could, they'd be told to be quiet). This is from the same stable as the "initiatives" where they get primary school children to tell people off for speeding (because clearly a child knows more about safe driving than someone who's passed their test)*.

Polluting kids' minds with anti-motorist guff is clearly incredibly important to the car-haters: Brake's site is full of stuff about "educating" kids, for example. Just another way in which the car-haters play dirty, and sinisterly so. I can only hope that when they get home and excitedly tell their parents all about the nonsense they've been told, the parents tell them the real story (although no doubt the patronising, controlling car-haters would just love to make it illegal for the parents to do that).

-- the car-haters' approach: "You'll sit there and listen to this bullshit and if you dare oppose it in any way then you'll be punished". Of course, you also get that on "speed awareness courses" (the latest scam that the camera partnerships are using to make money). No-one must challenge the orthodoxy. It's no coincidence that URCM, run mostly by car-haters, operates along the same lines.
 * Incidentally, that also shows another sinister, Orwellian aspect to

Many of the car-haters really are nasty and oppressive people, and it's worrying that such a small, self-serving and clearly mad group of zealots has managed to gain so much influence over transport policy. I had thought during the last few years that the tide was finally turning, and we were seeing a return to better policies, but now I'm not so sure...the haters are not going to give up without one hell of a screeching, dirty, dishonest, unpleasant fight. It's high time normal drivers were organised into some kind of opposition.