Guardian Unlimited | Columnists | They call themselves libertarians; I think they're antisocial bastards

Guardian Unlimited | Columnists | They call themselves libertarians; I think they're antisocial bastards: "George Monbiot
Tuesday December 20, 2005
The Guardian

The road-rage lobby couldn't have been more wrong. Organisations such as the Association of British Drivers or Safe Speed - the boy racers' club masquerading as a road-safety campaign - have spent years claiming that speeding doesn't cause accidents. Safe Speed, with the help of some of the most convoluted arguments I've ever read, even seeks to prove that speed cameras 'make our roads more dangerous'. Other groups, such as Motorists Against Detection (officially known as Mad), have been toppling, burning and blowing up the hated cameras. These and about a thousand such campaigns maintain that speed limits, speed traps and the government's 'war on the motorist' are shakedown operations whose sole purpose is to extract as much money as possible from the poor oppressed driver."