A huge injustice...not. - The Jewish Chronicle

Magnus Linklater broke the law three times. He was found out. As a result, he thinks he'll lose his licence.

And his complaint is: that he was found out.

I don't get it. I really, really don't get this obsession people have with the iniquity of speed cameras. There's a very simple way to not to fall foul of them. Don't break the law.

UPDATE: One of my commenters comes up with a classic red herring:

You are a small government advocate (aren't you?) and cameras are just the heavy dead hand of big brother/nanny state depressing us all. They are way overused when they should have a respected place in the management of roads.Big or small government has nothing to do with this. It's an issue of whether or not one obeys the law, The argument of those who froth over speed cameras is that they should be able to ignore the law when they see fit because it suits them so to do. The law might say the speed limit is 40 but if they want to travel at 50, why shouldn't they? What an utterly bizarre argument, which they would not seek to use when it comes to plunging any other lump of metal into another human being's body - which is, of course, the impact of a crash.

Another commenter writes: [L]et me pose to you a simple question. The parliament makes it illegal for anyone to step outside their front door. Your response? What's the problem? Just don't step outside your front door. My point? You have to look at the substance of the claimed illegality and gthe wider context. Is driving at 75mph a great crime? Well no, it's not a great crime. But it is illegal. And the argument is not usually framed by the opponents of speed cameras in terms of the illegitimacy of speed limits per se (as the comment seeks to imply) but over the mechanism for detecting breaches of the law.

If you think that speed limits are indeed wrong, then fine, but make that case and see how far you get when there's a child run down in a suburban street by someone driving at 65 mph. But if one accepts that 30 is a safe limit, even 20 (as it is in my road), then one cannot with any semblance of sense argue that if people then ignore that limit, they should not suffer any consequences. All cameras do is pick up when people are going faster than the limit.

I repeat: if you don't want to be fined or to suffer at the hands of speed cameras, there's a very simply solution: don't break the law.

(Not that it matters to my argument, since I am not complaining about cameras, but in response to a couple of emails, no, I have never been done for speeding. And I passed my test in 1981 - although I went a few years when I didn't bother having a car).