At 21 02 04, 10:32 AM, Chimpsarecute wrote:
Please be aware that as long as there is ARM (Active Resistance to Metrication) there should be ARI (Active Resistance to Imperial). I don't like the idea of destroying property that we the taxpayers have to pay for. But sometimes you have to take action against those who take action against you. Isn't this the new American policy of George Bush?
Presuming you are serious, Euric, then there are so many fallacies in this paragraph I hardly know where to start:
(1) What does the international policy of George Bush (or Bill Clinton, or Tony Blair, etc.) have to do with local metrication signs? Other than to serve as a lame excuse for your law breaking?
(2) Just because a sign is imperial does not mean any one has "taken action against you." Presumably the signs long predate your concerns with them, making you the intruder.
(3) For such mundane things as signs, most people believe democracy is the appropriate way of making decisions. Are the signs there in contravention to democratically-chosen alternatives?
You might want to take note that the BWMA supports the actions of ARM. The only way to fight ARM is with ARI.
Bovine scat. Analogously, if someone murders your mother, you are justified in murdering that person? What b.s.!
I stand by my previous post -- I don't know about where you live Euric, but I guarantee you that if pro-metricationists start vandalizing colloquial signage in the USA, it will generate GREATER resistance to metrication.
Is that your goal?
Jim Elwell
