The Criminalisation of an Entire Nation!

I drive too fast! I ride my motorbike too fast! Therefore I am a criminal in the eyes of the UK Government and the wonderfully justified quango's that are the local Camera Safety Partnerships, who for some time now have led the voters of this once great country to believe that excessive speed is the root of all evil! That it is the one factor alone that leads to hundreds of deaths each year on the UK's roads. It is this belief that has led to immense numbers of fixed and mobile speed trap cameras being used up and down the country to catch innocent motorists and turn them into 'criminals'.
I was driving home recently and spotted a mobile camera on the side of the road - but too late! I glanced at my speedo - 37mph, oh no, I thought to myself. I was in a line of about 6 cars, I was at a safe distance from the car in front of me, it was a dry and sunny day and my car was in good working order. SO WHAT THE HELL IS THE PROBLEM?!!
The whole line of traffic must have received their NIP's in the post - so that is 6 of us who will be expected to pay a fine and accept 3 points on their licences. 6 of us who will see our insurance premiums increase and perhaps have to explain to our employers why we don't have a clean licence. Some of us may even struggle to test drive or hire other vehicles.
Yes we were all travelling over the speed limit for that road but no one was driving dangerously or erratically.
What I don't know however is what proportion of the 6 were talking on their mobile phones whilst driving, smoking banned substances, a little worse for wear following a drinking session, joyriding in a stolen car or tuning their radio. I think that all of these actions ARE VERY DANGEROUS, and yet are not targetted by our wonderful law enforcement services.
The obvious answer to why this is the case is simple - INCOME GENERATION! Most of us drive a little over the speed limit now and again and therefore are easy targets for the Safety Camera Partnerships to catch and fine.
The joke is that even the Department of Transport's own analysis shows clearly that speed has very little to do with their own national accident statistics, the traditional justification for the proliferation of cameras.
The NIP came through the post just the other day. GUILTY! Then I got to thinking. I was being informed that I was guilty of an offence and that I was to be prosecuted. But I thought that under UK law a defendant had a right to a formal reading of his or her rights, and that a fundamental right was the right to remain silent. If a defendant does not receive confirmation of these rights then any subsequent evidence gathered is inadmissable in a court of law, and therefore the threat of prosecution would have to be dropped. But surely all of the thousands and thousands of speeding fines already gathered up and down the country have been collected under sound and just UK law? Surely the government of this land know what they are doing?
Well that is the question that was put to the European Court of Human Rights last month by two motorists who have taken on the system to uphold their rights.
We await the judgement of the European judges. The signs aren't good however for the British Government as a precedent has already been set by a similar case brought against the Austrian Government which they lost. It would mean that speeding could only be upheld against motorists using civil law and fines - therefore no more criminalisation of the masses!
I will be writing to the Chief Constable shortly just to let him know that the information I have given him will be inadmissable in court under the Police & Criminal Evidence Act!
Lets see what happens!?