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date: Thu, 25 Sep 2008 01:50:03 -0700 (PDT),    group: uk.transport        back       
Re: Metric martyr takes on parking wardens over 'stealth tax' tickets in landmark legal case   
On 25 Sep, 06:31, Doug  wrote:
> Ooooh! A motorist campaigner with a campaign! This will leave the
> motorists who dominate this transport newsgroup in a bit of a dilemma
> cos they hate campaigners and campaigns, if their previous posts are
> anything to go by.
>
> What does he expect, motorists be allowed to park on public roads for
> free?
>
> "Metric martyr' Neil Herron is launching a landmark legal challenge
> over the use of parking tickets as a 'stealth tax'.
>
> If he is successful, drivers could demand the return of hundreds of
> millions of pounds of penalties for parking on single yellow lines.
>
> Mr Herron - who led the campaign to stop the prosecution of British
> shopkeepers still using imperial measurements - has remortgaged his
> home to take on the parking industry..."
>
> More:
>
> http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1061296/Metric-martyr-takes-p...
>
> --
> UK Radical Campaignswww.zing.icom43.net
> One man's car is another man's irritant.

nah, we just hate the campaigns that can't make a point without using
anonymous violent acts.

Oddly that seems to be the only type of campaign you will support.
( Be it Animal Rights, the IRA or the Nazi Death Camps)

Fod
date: Thu, 25 Sep 2008 01:50:03 -0700 (PDT)   author:   Fod

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