{"id":184530465,"date":"2010-11-06T18:27:45","date_gmt":"2010-11-06T18:27:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=184530465"},"modified":"2010-11-06T18:27:45","modified_gmt":"2010-11-06T18:27:45","slug":"blogger-slams-columnist-on-speed-cameras","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=184530465","title":{"rendered":"Blogger slams columnist on speed cameras"},"content":{"rendered":"

from Getting There by Michael Dresser<\/p>\n

One of Washington’s fiercest (and best) bloggers has ripped a Washington Post writer over a column that all but condoned arson when directed against speed cameras. <\/p>\n

David Alpert of  Greater Greater Washington <\/a>does a pithy job of taking apart the Post’s Petula Dvorak for her obsession with the sheer injustice of being caught breaking the law by one of those “horrid contraptions” in a column today<\/a>. Instead, Alpert refocuses the debate where it belongs: the threat to human lives from speeding drivers.<\/p>\n

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By the way, I’m not sure a “speed tax” is such a bad idea. Speeders are by definition bad drivers and bad drivers impose more costs on the public than responsible ones. Why shouldn’t they pay an additional “tax.”<\/p>\n

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from Getting There by Michael Dresser One of Washington’s fiercest (and best) bloggers has ripped a Washington Post writer over a column that all but condoned arson when directed against speed cameras. David Alpert of  Greater Greater Washington does a pithy job of taking apart the Post’s Petula Dvorak for her obsession with the sheer injustice … <\/p>\n

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