From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: U.S. Metric Association <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: March 23, 2001 05:05 Subject: [USMA:11777] metrication is iconoclasm > >To the BWMA the abolition of lb/oz is the same thing as the iconoclasm by the >Afghan Taliban. > >Han > > >PRESS RELEASE 18.3.01 > >IMPERIAL FINALE, OR THE ABOLITION OF HISTORY > >BWMA's condemnation of the Commons' debate on the complete end to imperial >measures. > > >This will make an outcast of our historical archives that largely consists of >references to imperial measures. A researching public, ranging from academics to >householders consulting records including title deeds, charters, maps and house >plans will be confronted increasingly by information that has become illegal and >of which they will have little or no knowledge or awareness. >The government refused to make an application to the European Commission for >permission to extend indefinitely our right to use our customary *imperial >system* Now there's an oxymoron if I ever saw one! Duncan . >In the Commons debate the Minister for Trade Dr Howells jeered at the >Opposition, accusing them of objecting only because they are frightened of >losing seats. The government is dead set to criminalise the 93% of people >who prefer imperial measures for every day use. >The vote in the Commons to annul this most unpopular regulation was deferred >till Wednesday 21 March, after a similar motion to be heard in the Lords on >Tuesday. >
