Ban the Cams note, This is a editorial earlier this year that I just found from the UK.  I thought I would share it with everyone.  (I don't believe we have posted this before).

http://www.thesun.co.uk/scotsol/homepage/news/3070241/The-Sun-Says.html

Fine by us

Published: 26 Jul 2010
SPEED cameras have blighted motorists' lives for nearly 20 years - and for what?

Introduced in 1991, GATSOs actually slowed down an already dramatic drop in road casualties.

When Swindon scrapped theirs last year, safety campaigners feared deaths would soar.

But they fell.

The explosion in GATSOs, along with CCTV, contributed more than anything to the oppressive surveillance state Labour created.

Mostly they criminalise ordinarily law-abiding people who absent- mindedly creep over the limit.

Unlike the police patrols Britain used to have, they make no allowance for circumstances or conditions.

Nor do they catch the genuinely reckless or incompetent.

The Government says it is ending this war on the motorist.

It can't happen quickly enough.

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