2001-04-28
The two entries below, the one from Han and the one from Chris, would make
one think the imperialists are now declaring all out war. New claims of
surveys that state that 74 % of the people want imperial weather forcasts,
threats of lawsuits against private organisations placing metric signage,
and claims of international support to fight the verdict of Sunderland, all
coming at the same time can only mean one thing. The imperialists know this
is the last battle. They must fight with all they got.
If I'm not mistaken, Steven Thoburn is required to pay 90 000 � in court
costs to Sunderland, if he appeals the case. Since he announced he would,
the 100 000 � collected from supporters would eat up 90 % of that. The
appeal would cost 500 000 �. Such a waste of resources. It is too bad the
superior court can't throw the case out, thus upholding the Sunderland
decision.
I just wonder how much of his International support is coming from British
and American citizens living in various countries throughout the world. Or
from radical groups opposed to big government or free trade.
For sure, it will be interesting to see how far this will go and what any
decision will mean for both sides as well as for the US.
John
Keiner ist hoffnungsloser versklavt als derjenige, der irrt�mlich glaubt
frei zu sein.
There are none more hopelessly enslaved then those who falsely believe they
are free!
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)
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Sent: Friday, 2001-04-27 16:50
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Now at http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_1300000/1300887.stm
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Chris KEENAN
UK Metrication Association: http://www.metric.org.uk/
UK Correspondent, US Metric Association
To all,
The BWMA is now targetting weather forecasts. To the British members: be on
your guard! They have polled people and they claim that most British
citizens
(74%) want weather in Imperial.
Han
METRIC WEATHER FORECASTS -
74% DON'T WANT THEM
British Weights and Measures Association's comments on survey of weather
forecast preferences.
In an independent survey of people's opinions on imperial or metric units in
broadcast weather forecasts, 74% of those who expressed a preference said
they
wanted imperial. Women feel even more strongly with 78% preferring imperial.
Virtually all age ranges prefer imperial. Even the youngest, the metric
educated age group, 18-24, is finely balanced with 48% preferring imperial.
This evidence contradicts the BBC's ludicrous assertion that "The majority
of
people under 40 years old do not understand imperial measurement and the
majority over 40 years do not understand metric measurements."
The love of our traditional measures is rooted deep in our culture. So what
causes the inexplicable craving to abolish them? The real reason for the
BBC's
arrogant attitude is revealed in a quote by Jonathan Amos of BBC News
Online, "We are now in the bosom of Brussels." The BBC has decided to
collaborate with Brussels and force-feed the population with metric
measures.
The opinion survey shows how out of touch it is with the listening and
viewing
public.
This loathing of our customary measures goes against the earlier policy set
out
by the BBC Chairman, Sir Christopher Bland, who wrote to the British Weights
&
Measures Association saying, "We are not in the business of imposing
anything
on the public..."
It is time the BBC, and weather forecasters in general, took notice of what
the
public wants and give renewed priority to our traditional imperial measures.
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PRESS RELEASE
30 March 2001
INCITEMENT TO CRIME
Local authority incites tourist centres to break the law
(REM: and what do they do? Egging on traders to break the W&M Act!)
The Sedgemoor District Council's "Design Guide to Directional Advertising"
specifies metric distances on tourist signs. Under the 1994 Traffic Signs
Regulations it is unlawful to display signs that do not show distances in
miles, or yards. This applies to both road traffic signs and pavement signs
for
pedestrians. (Britain gained a concession from the EU to allow us to use
exclusively miles and yards in road signs)
While Sedgemoor District Council is inciting owners of tourist attractions
to
use illegal metric roadsigns the Sunderland Borough Council has prosecuted a
green grocer for using allegedly illegal imperial measures when selling
bananas. This is typical of the hypocrisy of local authorities when dealing
with our traditional and popular system of measures.
Vivian Linacre, BWMA Director, says, "Once again Local Authorities have
slipped
on their own banana skin".
The British Weights and Measures Association invites the citizens of
Sedgemoor
to bring a private prosecution of their District Council for inciting a
criminal offence.
The centre pages of the offending booklet.
Click on design for larger image.
