I love punctuation and am willing to accept the implications

Let me preface this story with “are you kidding me?”

Title of article I read: Its a catastrophe for the apostrophe in Britain

and here is the beginning....

On the streets of Birmingham, the queen's English is now the queens English.

England's second-largest city has decided to drop apostrophes from all its street signs, saying they're confusing and old-fashioned. But some purists are downright possessive about the punctuation mark. It seems that Birmingham officials have been taking a hammer to grammar (fantastic saying!) for years, quietly dropping apostrophes from street signs since the 1950s.

Through the decades, residents have frequently launched spirited campaigns to restore the missing punctuation to signs denoting such places as "St. Pauls Square" or "Acocks Green."
This week, the council made it official, saying it was banning the punctuation mark from signs in a bid to end the dispute once and for all. Councilor Martin Mullaney, who heads the city's transport scrutiny committee, said he decided to act after yet another interminable debate into whether "Kings Heath," a Birmingham suburb, should be rewritten with an apostrophe. "I had to make a final decision on this," he said Friday. "We keep debating apostrophes in meetings and we have other things to do." (seems like a sensible statement)

Mullaney hopes to stop public campaigns to restore the apostrophe that would tell passers-by that "Kings Heath" was once owned by the monarchy. "Apostrophes denote possessions that are no longer accurate, and are not needed," he said. "More importantly, they confuse people. (who do they confuse? I am actually very glad I don't know anyone that is confused by apostrophes) If I want to go to a restaurant, I don't want to have an A-level (high school diploma) in English to find it."

...and my opinion:

What?! Okay, so this made me laugh at first. It's funny. But then I thought about it a bit longer and decided that this is absurd. First of all, being a "writer" I have to admit that the English language is incredibly flawed. That I am not denying. However, since when are you allowed to just make up your own rules and decide there will be no apostrophes on street signs? And really...is it that confusing? I guess I'm okay with it in Britain but I swear...If this ever makes its way to the States I will be the first one with a picket in my hand shaped like a giant exclamation point!