Welcome to the online home of Captain Gatso, Campaigns Director of Motorists Against Detection, for news about speed cameras (and SPECS, ANPR etc), speeding tickets, motoring issues, cars, politics and the Fuel Protest.

The purpose of this website is to represent an unheard band of motorists and bikers fed up with this continuing proliferation of speed cameras, specs cameras, bus lane, parking, ANPR and congestion cameras. We are sick and tired of driving to our speedos and braking in the vicinity of a speed camera as opposed to driving and braking as to what we can see!

We are fed up with lining the pockets of this Government, police forces and councils who are using speed cameras as a stealth tax revenue raising scheme.

We are not criminals, just drivers going about our daily business and we are essentially law abiding citizens.

However every time a person gets behind the wheel or rides a motorcycle they can become a criminal in respect of absolute motoring laws administered by the non-discretionary nature of speed camera systems!

When MAD first started out, we totally agreed with existing road traffic laws and speed cameras sited within built up and urban areas and we APPLAUDED them. However, now there are so many more cameras on our roads and the fact that this Government has launched its own 'war on terror' namely zero tolerance on the motorist.

Because of this, we now no longer support our original stance.

We are especially tired of having speed cameras sited on major trunk roads and motorways where there are never any children playing. They are unnecessary and achieve very little in bringing down the numbers of casualties and deaths on the UK's roads. This is supported by TRL, DETR and HOME OFFICE figures, however they add large amounts of ill-gotten gains to police and council coffers, further alienating the voting motoring public.

We have spoken to numerous police officers and emergency service personnel countrywide and they agree that the majority of speed cameras are sited for revenue, not safety, and in a lot of cases they just impede general progress.

Everyday now it seems we read stories about camera technology and hear people talking to radio stations moaning about them. Up until now this has made not a jot of difference which is why it is time for us all to act before it all gets out of hand.

Motorists Against Detection have an ongoing campaign which is being professionally organised via the internet throughout the UK and will be orchestrated by direct action to take out speed cameras on major trunk roads and motorways due to this Government's continuing war on the motorist!

CAPTAIN GATSO

(THE MOTORISTS FRIEND)

The Captain's credentials and recent media appearances include: Sky News, BBC News, Tonight with Trevor Macdonald, Daily Express, The Sun, Sunday Express, Sunday Times.

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