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Iraq: The Surreal - Revisions to the Traffic Code
I am glad that the CPA and its Iraqi lackeys are concentrating on important things, like the following:
MINISTRY OF INTERIOR SUMAIDA’IE ANNOUNCES REVISIONS TO IRAQ’S TRAFFIC CODE
Baghdad, Iraq…May 30, 2004 – Iraq’s Minister of Interior, Samir Shakir Mahmood Sumaida’ie has announced recently-completed revisions to Iraq’s National Traffic Code.
The revised Code includes provisions requiring operator licenses as well as vehicle registration, licensing and safety inspections.
The Code stipulates that fines for violations of the Code be paid directly to an accounts officer at the police sector headquarters.
“Citizens often complain to me about the traffic conditions in Iraq – especially in Baghdad,” said Minister Sumaida’ie. “This revised Code will go a long way toward improving traffic and, more importantly, the safety of Iraqi drivers and pedestrians.”
Vehicle licensing and inspection stations will be established at various traffic police offices throughout Iraq. The Ministry of Interior will notify Iraqi vehicle owners of the time and place of their vehicle inspection and registration.
The provisions of the Code will be enforced by Iraq’s traffic police officers. Those vehicle owners and/or drivers who fail to comply with the Code are subject to punishment in Iraqi courts.
The revisions, implemented by CPA Order Number 86, were requested by Baghdad’s Director General for Traffic. The revisions are the first since 1972.
The revised Iraq National Traffic Code is available in Arabic and English at www.iraqcoalition.org.
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Of course this is just the kind of asinine posturing that fools the Americans but does nothing to change the situaiton on the ground. When is it going to sink through their fucking thick heads that it's not the laws that are the main fucking binding fucking constraints around here, it's the motherfucking practices on the ground! The issue is not an out of date traffic code - who the fuck pays attention to the fucking laws in this goddamned region anyway you silly ignorant idealistic twits! - the issue is (i) lack of enforcement of what exists, (ii) lack of an idea on the rule of the legal text over the negotiated practice with the police man (the institutionalized (x) dinar 'fee'), (iii) the lack of respect for the system generally! Bloody hell, will these rubes, these wide-eyed do-gooding rubes never learn?
Bloody idiots. Bloody goddamned idiots getting taken to town like fucking innocent virgins right out of bloody damned school.
New goddamned traffic code indeed. Spanking new traffic code, to be ignored just like the old decrepit ones.
Fuck, it isn't fucking Kansas Dorothy.
Edited to Add:
And you wonder why I am supporting the Cuban economy. It's because of arrogantly naive crap like this. Drives me bloody batty.
Posted by The Lounsbury at May 30, 2004 04:39 PM
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