There was a similar type of story on a news program the other night. The story was about a system that uses satelites to detect speeding motorists. It can control engine management systems in vehicles, automatically throttleing them back. Supposedly they want to target repeat offenders.... What a load of crap this all is.

We get bulshitted so much every day we just swallow it. Are we so gullible?

Fear - Terrorism,  Bikies, Bushfires, Speed kills... Yes speed can kill, but what is an acceptable risk? When is enough? Should a speed limit be 60 or 50 ... what about 30? ... wipe off 5 more, or should we all just stay in bed? 

Guilt - Smoking, or the Green House Effect and how the world is about to get ugly (with lots of research funded by large corporations with  vested interests). Lets push to be responsible, greener and consume less, absolutely, but we are not all about to die.

We are pumped with fear so governments get more control, and so we buy more of the sponsors stuff. Newspapers only want to sell more newspapers. They report what they can sell and sell what they can report. So all we see is sensationalist stories, doom and gloom. It must be getting worse! This is a reality. The erosion of what we call freedom and science, because freedom is becoming undermined by over-regulating governments and science is becoming hijacked by business and politics.

Think I need to go for a blat now   Back to our regular programming.