This is an entry in response to an article in The Crappier Mail last week.
Oh yes... As per usual, we have the "Premier" of Queensland out there making statements about issues he knows NOTHING about.
I will say that I agree with the confiscation of vehicles of serial offenders, to claim that speeding and young people (of which I am *not* one of either group) are the core group dying on the roads is displaying his ignorance yet again.
There are already laws in place that are there to make the roads safer but are they enforced? NO!
There are methods that are tried and tested overseas and work exceptionally well - but are they considered or adapted to this country? NO!
There are psychological means to make people choose to obey the laws willingly as a member of a forward-thinking society, but are they considered or used? NO!
There is the option of education programs and retesting of existing operators (of motor vehicles) out there to prevent people dying *before* the fact, but is this considered or used? NO!
Are speed cameras primarily located around schools, shopping centres, roadworks and other areas where steel-on-flesh is more likely to destroy a life than steel-on-steel? NO!
Is the value of the life of your child, sister, brother, mother, cousin, friend or neighbour worth more than the value of a fine to the state budget? NO!
Are mobile speed units being deployed in a fashion that enhances the work of the police in trying to save lives? NO!
Are all road rules being enforced instead of just those that are profitable to the budget? NO!
Are those who intentionally cause issues on the roads being charged as conspirators to commit murder? NO!
Are people who wield vehicles like weapons treated the same way as someone who walks down the street with a gun (even an unloaded one)? NO!
So... what *is* being done by the Beattie Government (or the NSW, Victorian, Tasmanian, South Australian, Western Australian & NT governments for that matter) to try and reduce the carnage on the roads?
Nothing.
It is just the same old knee-jerk reaction and the usual running to the media spruking how good they are performing when their efforts are nothing short of piss-poor.
How about the state Transport Ministers and their respective "Premiers" get about doing the goddamn job instead of making the roads safer for all instead of treating the public like expendable cash-cows? How about they concentrate their energies on serving the people and making the state better instead of standing behind podiums & in front of cameras saying "God, I'm good! Vote for me - I'm really not here to line my pockets - honest injun!"
The other option.... Make me Transport Minister for Queensland and I will halve the road toll in a year! Why? I can make the hard decisions; I know what needs to be done; I refuse to toe the line set down by union bosses and don't care if the public vote for me next time around. Your work ethic and results should speak for themselves.
In other words - the Politicians of this country should grow a pair.
Very true.
The politicians of this country *do* need to grow a pair if they are to have any part in reducing the needless deaths on the road. I guess this is the idealist in me.... thinking that peoples lives are worth more than budget-balancing fines and the best way to save money on aged care is to kill the populace off before they get old enough to need it.
And yet, while action is slow, nay, non-existent on some issues - when it comes to the political party of choice for the wannabe-communists, the Premier of Queensland will go in balls-and-all with intimidation tactics to reclaim monies that a candidate may have been entitled should she have remained a socialist but is required to return the money when the wishes of the Union Bosses cannot be pandered to as a priority.
Then we have a typically corrupt judge, Marcus Einfeld (as is the way of the Australian "legal" system) who is breaking the law; lying about it; still claiming a position of respect in society; and feigning disgust and persecution because somebody dared to criticize him over his behaviour.
"So what if I did lie about not being behind the wheel of that car? I was only a little bit drunk. I'm a judge! I judge you, not the other way around! I am entitled to special privileges - even if that includes lying about a dead woman being the driver of my car when I got caught driving dangerously. How dare you criticize me?"
Only to be met with yet another knee-jerk reaction of banning P-Platers from using mobile phones while driving. So it's OK for learner drivers to have mobile phones? It's OK for that diminutive woman in her never-seen-offroad 2-tonne, four-wheel-drive, chunk-of-shit, oversized-station-wagon to use a mobile phone? How about actually enforcing the laws in place already for the use of mobile phones in cars?
I'm not a p-plater and haven't been for many years but I can tell you for certain that there are bigger issues on the road than learner-drivers and p-platers - and a lot of it comes from the UTTER ARROGANCE of people in this country to operate a motor vehicle with their heads planted firmly up their arseholes while cruising the right lane of any given motorway.
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