On May 11, 3:00*pm, "mileburner" wrote:

Therefore from the people I know, cyclists *are* drivers too.

This has been done to death. Car-haters can (and often do) drive
themselves, it merely makes them hypocrites: they believe that they
are somehow more entitled to drive than the "rabble" because they're
important enough for an exception to be applied. Chapman is a classic
example: anyone who doesn't believe that he thinks himself more
important than "ordinary" types is not very bright, to say the least.

"Do as I say, not as I do" is very much a cornerstone of socialism,
which of course car-haters usually subscribe to. That's why
Livingstone takes taxis everywhere, and doesn't have to pay a penalty
fare when he does actually deign to take the train (and deliberately
travels without a ticket). That's why Al Gore has a massive carbon
footprint and is always jetting off to exotic locations for no good
reason whatsoever, while he advocates all sorts of restrictions on the
rest of us. That's why Communist governments had their own dedicated
traffic lanes. Time and time again, you find that those who campaign
for and instigate mean-spirited, socialism-related restrictions such
as anti-motorist measures are living the high life themselves, and are
much worse "offenders" (by their own self-righteous standards) than
the rest of us.

The only reason this "I don't hate cars, I drive myself" nonsense
keeps coming up is because the car-haters are desperate to lie and
show that they don't hate cars (part of the "strategy"), but they
can't come up with any real, proper way of doing so (unsurprisingly
considering that they do actually hate cars); the only thing they can
think of is to keep desperately repeating "But I drive myself" in the
forlorn hope that someone might be deceived. But it isn't working,
and it's just another facet of the car-haters' self-importance that
they so consistently underestimate the intelligence of others.

One day they may just realise that they might be a bit more successful
at getting motorists off the roads if they start telling the truth
about hating cars and explaining why they think it would be better for
people to stop driving, instead of getting people's backs up by lying
and pretending to care about "safety", "the environment", "cycling"
etc. Such a strategy certainly couldn't be any less effective than
their current one. Still, I guess I shouldn't complain if they're
rubbish at getting motorists off the roads...I'm quite happy for
myself and everyone else to carry on driving, thanks, and I think cars
are great. It may be sacrilege to say so on uk.rec.anti-motorist, but
I couldn't really care less...at least I'm honest about what I think.