ORGANIZED CRIME: GOVERNMENT OR PRIVATE

The above title is part of an old joke. A young boy tells his father that when he grows up he wishes to be part of organized crime and his father asks him "Government or private?". When it comes to sheer lieing, stealing and deceiving; governments of all stripes have no peers. When it comes to ethics and morals they will talk about them till the cows come home but everything gets sacrificed on the alter of partisanship advantage. The sin is in the getting caught not in the doing. When caught nine times out of ten governments will use taxpayers money to buy themselves out of trouble. So it is and so it has always been.

On line yesterday was an article from MacLean's magazine detailing British Columbia's raising of highway speed limits. Many highways will have their speed limits raised to 120 km/hour. All studies to date both domestic and foreign indicate that this will make a minimal to zero difference in people's driving habits. What it will do is allow those who routinely drive at the 120 km/hr point to do so comfortably and without government harassment and theft of their money. People both in town and on the highway drive at a speed that they are comfortable with based upon weather, road conditions, visibility, night versus day and traffic congestion or not. Automatically raising the speed limits does not cause an automatic increase in speed by the large number of people already routinely driving between 100 and 115 km/hr. Similarily those who routinely drive beteen 90 and 100 km/hr will under similar road conditions continue to do so.

So the question is what about the millions of dollars sucked out of motorists over the last fifty or sixty years. Was it all a sham? The answer unequivocally was and is yes. Both governments and insurance companies have long used "speeding" as an excuse to legally steal money from motorists. Perhaps laying a "speeding" ticket might be appropriate if it can be proven that "speeding" was even a contributing cause to an accident. The majority of accidents were and always have been due to HUA or head up ass. The recent terminology has been "distracted" driving but yours truly coined HUA literally decades ago. It doesn't matter how slow you're driving if you're not paying attention. People walking at three miles an hour bump into each other when they're not paying attention whether caused by ipads, cellphones or visual distractions.