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it's interesting that america has become a fascist police state
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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: jah_yout</div><div class="ubbcode-body">it's interesting that america has become a fascist police state </div></div>
Well,I think you're still a long way off from the UK where there is a cctv camera on almost every building....and you cant drive for an hundred metres without a speed camera watching if you go 1 mile over the speed limit.
In some boroughs the local council have even employed people with cameras to watch if householders put the right kind of rubbish in the respected bins,....I am given 5 different bins by my local council to put different kind of rubbish in,,..and I can be fined heavily for putting the wrong rubbish in the wrong bin.Comment
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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Natral</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: jah_yout</div><div class="ubbcode-body">it's interesting that america has become a fascist police state </div></div>
Well,I think you're still a long way off from the UK where there is a cctv camera on almost every building....and you cant drive for an hundred metres without a speed camera watching if you go 1 mile over the speed limit.
In some boroughs the local council have even employed people with cameras to watch if householders put the right kind of rubbish in the respected bins,....I am given 5 different bins by my local council to put different kind of rubbish in,,..and I can be fined heavily for putting the wrong rubbish in the wrong bin. </div></div>
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but at least they give you free health care while they police you
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Yeah,at least there is free health care,I dont know how you guys manage without it.Comment
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is it unno dem call the Nanny state?Comment
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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: jah_yout</div><div class="ubbcode-body">it's interesting that america has become a fascist police state </div></div>
Is where you're any better? England is worst that US based on the article I read. The sad truth there is no where to flee to because we shall soon be one.Comment
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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Diabolical_Tanya</div><div class="ubbcode-body">is it unno dem call the Nanny state? </div></div>
Yeah that's what they call it right now,the government controls every aspect of our daily lives,.....they wiil even fine you for drinking a can of coke in your car,..its dangerous and reckless to other road users.Comment
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Speed camera-mad Britain losing road deaths battle
Britain is the speed camera capital of Europe but is fast losing the battle to reduce road deaths.
The number of roadside cameras has trebled in six years while mobile speed traps set up across the country have increased 14-fold.
Yet despite an unrelenting war on the motorist, Britain's record for saving lives and reducing accidents is much worse than other countries.
An over-reliance on cameras - at a time when fewer traffic police are patrolling the roads - has led to an alarming relative rise in drink-drive deaths.
As a result, Britain has plummeted in Europe's road-safety league table.
Critics say this is proof that the speed-camera policy has failed.
According to the latest figures, there are now 5,562 roadside speed cameras in Britain. That compares to 1,935 back in 2000.
Over the same period, mobile speed traps have increased from just 173 to 2,373.
The latest figures confirming Britain as having the highest number of speed cameras in Europe were revealed in a Parliamentary written answer to Tory transport spokesman Owen Paterson.
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It came as Britain was shown to no longer have the safest roads in Europe, thanks largely to the failure to tackle drink-driving.
It has lost its top-ranking position in the European road safety league because progress on reducing the number of road deaths has been slower than other countries.
Britain now has 54 road deaths per million of population, according to the European Transport Safety Council's first road safety report.
This is more than the Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland, Norway and Malta.
The report shows that between 2001 and 2005 there was a mere seven per cent reduction in the number of road deaths in Britain compared to a 25 per cent drop in Sweden and the Netherlands and 35 per cent in France.
Drink driving deaths have risen by two per cent in Great Britain and by one per cent in Northern Ireland, compared to a drop of 11 per cent in the Czech republic, nine per cent in Belgium and six per cent in Germany.
"The country has made little progress on reducing road deaths between 2001 and 2005," the council's report says.
"Numbers of drink-driving deaths in Great Britain have remained high over the last decade. They have actually risen in relation to other deaths, so this has slowed down the overall reduction in road deaths."
Yesterday, separate research from the speed camera alert system Wayfinder also showed Britain topping the European league table for cameras.
Wayfinder, which used statistics compiled at an earlier date, found 4,875 cameras in Britain, followed by Germany (3,108), Italy (1,945), Holland (1,594), Belgium (1,180) and France (973).
In addition, for every 620 miles of road, there are 20 cameras in Britain, nine in Germany, six in Italy, two in France and just one in Spain.
A Wayfinder spokesman said: "Britain is undoubtedly the speed camera capital of Europe.Comment
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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: jah_yout</div><div class="ubbcode-body">... at least they give you free health care while they police you </div></div>
No such thing as "FREE" health care. It is more accessible to all but not free. The money to pay for it has to come from somewhere!Comment
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You are right in a way,it comes from our taxes,the government is not ashamed to dip into our wages and take a very large chunk for themselves.Comment
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