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Tuesday, January 18, 2005

'Road Block' protest group formed:
It has warned that direct action to try to stop roads - seen in the 1990s - could become common again.

On Monday, Road Block campaigners met to try to stop work on a £50m bypass from Stoke Hammond in Buckinghamshire to Linslade in Bedfordshire.
By actually preventing road development, as opposed to merely drawing attention to their cause by dancing naked in front of TV cameras, these people apparently feel that they have a right to impose their desires over those of the rest of the population by fiat. Sort of a return to the old 'might makes right' feudal lordship days of government.

posted by Gregory Bloom @ 1/18/2005 08:15:00 AM

Comments:
"these people apparently feel that they have a right to impose their desires over those of the rest of the population by fiat" - how wrong you are !
These people actually care for the planet they live on and are a part of, which is more than can be said for the majority who use their vehicles without a moments thought about the amount of pollution they cause.
We are already seeing the effects of climate change, and it's about time that people showed more responsibilty when using private transport.
What do you want - a road to drive your insular tin box along, or a planet fit for your children to live on ??
It's your choice - you can be a part of the problem, or a part of the solution !!
# posted by Anonymous : 8:08 AM, January 20, 2005
 
And I suppose that if the construction company that built roads and the companies who will flourish from better transportation all decided to just build a road against the desires of the people, it would be okay so long as they had a vision of a more habitable world that would result from their actions?

Any action has cost-benefit tradeoffs. We, as a society, must decide what those tradeoffs are. Not some small group of people who decide to impose their own world-view on everyone. If that small group feels themselves above the law because they worship a particular deity, be it Mohammed or Gaia, that group is advocating a return to a theocratic form of government. Given how well thocracies have worked out over history, I think we should pass on that opportunity.
# posted by Gregory Bloom : 8:47 AM, January 20, 2005
 
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