[USMA:30297] BWMA website postings threaten our future

[David King]

After the first message, I noticed some of the others were pages I recognised from the Bummer (Bwma) site. For a moment though, I thought you had maybe defected to the opposition. A more helpful subject line would have helped though. I think their campaign to get "illegal" metric signs changed is a great threat to metrication, as it is stopping people from getting used to seeing metric. Their members willingly and openly engage in wholesale rampant destruction of public and private property in the pursuit of eliminating metric signage. I saw one sign recently in London, outside Imperial College near the Royal Albert Hall, where a distance sign had been changed from one in metres to one in yards. An increase in the usage of metric signage can only be good, and the reversal of that bad. Bummer claim that the signs are illegal as they are not imperial plus metric, but this has yet to be challenged in a court of law, and I doubt if Bummer have the resources to go through the courts on every metric sign. What we need in the UK is a test case that will show that metric only signs are perfectly legal. This is not referring to official DFT signage for distances to towns and speed limit signs which have to be shown in miles and miles per hour respectively. If the USA starts moving forward more quickly to metrication and introduces km distances on signs and km/h speed limit signs to replace imperial ones, then the Bummer and others can no longer use the excuse that American tourists won't understand metric signs. I think enough of USA has been exposed to metric for American tourists to perfectly understand metric signs when they visit the UK, and they visit many places throughout Europe where they see metric signs all the time. For Bummer to claim that we must have imperial signs for American tourists is to make a claim based on nothing but hot air. David MightyChimp wrote: It comes from your friends at the BWMA.  I posted this and a few others from their site, hoping to trigger a discussion since this board seems to be dead lately.     You might want to go to theirr site: http://www.bwmaonline.com and peruse it and see to what extent they try to coerce the people into resisting metrication.  By knowing their techniques you may be able to help find means to undo the damage they have done or help prevent them (legally, of course) from causing further damage to metrication.   Euric            ----- Original Message ----- From: David King To: U.S. Metric Association Sent: Monday, 2004-07-05 19:31 Subject: [USMA:30294] Re: The Campaign against Metric Signage So who wrote this garbage?   -- David King Yahoo profile • my website • My travels • Computer help Cash Avalanche • Free website business • Avoura online store • Dial up Internet • Great Mobile Phones UK Metric Association • US Metric Association "Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails." 1 Corinthians 13:7-8 - - - - - - -