How Critical Mass elsewhere deals with motorised aggression and wrongful authority.
Doug
"...In July 1997, San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown issued several
inflammatory comments against cyclists and their "incredible display
of arrogance," likening them to Hell's Angels. At the Critical Mass
ride that month police arrested over 250 participants. Two officers
were injured in the bedlam. At a 2007 ride, an enraged motorist drove
through the Mass, injuring two people. A group of cyclists rode down
the vehicle, slashed the tires, and broke out several windows while
the driver and her two children cowered inside. In 2008 in Seattle, a
similar incident resulted in the driver being hauled from his car and
hit over the back of the head with a bike lock. On July 25th of last
year, NYPD officer Patrick Pogan body-slammed Critical Mass
participant Christopher Long in the middle of Times Square, later
charging him with assault, resisting arrest, and disorderly conduct. A
video of the incident soon appeared on YouTube, clearly showing that
Pogan was in the wrong. The New York District Attorney's office
dropped all charges against Long, who's now suing the city for $1.5
million. Pogan was dismissed from the force and is now facing felony
charges for falsifying an official report.
Today, scores of YouTube videos show encounters between cyclists and
law officers that beg for John Bunnell narration. Officers appear to
bully cyclists, arrest them without provocation, and use excessive
force. Cyclists swarm around scenes of arrests with cameras, chant
"let him/her go!" and taunt officers. While it's impossible to tell
who's in the wrong between the bias of the camera operators and the
actual video quality, one thing is unmistakable. What started as an
initiative for peaceful demonstration has devolved into chaos. From
Honolulu to Lithuania, Critical Mass events energize both anarchists
and authority junkies alike, and then throw them together in the same
environment. The consequences are evident..."
More, including mention of London CM.
http://www.bicycletimesmag.com/content/critical-mass-critical-issue-cycling-relations
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Critical Mass London
http://www.criticalmasslondon.org.uk
"Get out of my way you f*ing cyclist"
Happi Monday
You certainly aren't doing "real" cyclists any favours by participating
or waffling on about it here.
Happi
Light of Aria
"Happi Monday" <ha...@munday.com> wrote in message
news:hhshsc$ev$1...@speranza.aioe.org...
I agree with the above too. Critical Mass won't attract anyone new into
cycling who is not already doing so and it won't win the necessary friends
amongst outsiders.
Tony Dragon
Doug has yet to show that any real, considerate & reasonable cyclists
support CM.
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Tony Dragon
Jim A
He does seem to attract a critical mass of his own though!
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www.slowbicyclemovement.org - enjoy the ride
Doug
to the already converted. Maybe instead they want to assert their
right to use public roads as equals instead of as inferiors as just
one of their many goals. Need I remind you too that they have already
won in court against no less than the police itself and have managed
to maintain its rides in London for almost 16 years without any
organisers and despite considerable opposition, not just from police
but also from motorists such as those on this very newsgroup who deign
to pose as cyclists?
Happi Monday
> Maybe that is not the goal of many of its participants, i.e. preaching
> to the already converted. Maybe instead they want to assert their
> right to use public roads as equals instead of as inferiors as just
> one of their many goals. Need I remind you too that they have already
> won in court against no less than the police itself and have managed
> to maintain its rides in London for almost 16 years without any
> organisers and despite considerable opposition, not just from police
> but also from motorists such as those on this very newsgroup who deign
> to pose as cyclists?
Can't you see that your Critical Wanking rides just antagonise motorists
and make things worse?
Doug
people who threaten my life on a daily basis when I pose no
significant threat to them?
The Medway Handyman
> On 4 Jan, 11:50, "Light of Aria"
> <lightofa...@2009.no.valid.domain.com> wrote:
>> "Happi Monday" <ha...@munday.com> wrote in message
>>
>> news:hhshsc$ev$1...@speranza.aioe.org...
>>
>>> I don't think any of us give a fcuk about your Critical Wanking
>>> activities. You certainly aren't doing "real" cyclists any favours
>>> by participating or waffling on about it here.
>>
>>> Happi
>>
>> I agree with the above too. Critical Mass won't attract anyone new
>> into cycling who is not already doing so and it won't win the
>> necessary friends amongst outsiders.
>>
> Maybe that is not the goal of many of its participants, i.e. preaching
> to the already converted. Maybe instead they want to assert their
> right to use public roads as equals instead of as inferiors as just
> one of their many goals.
But they are not equals because they are sponging freeloaders, and when it
comes to obeying simple traffic laws they are clearly inferior. Cyclotwats
have no 'rights' to use the road whatsoever.
> Need I remind you too that they have already
> won in court against no less than the police itself and have managed
> to maintain its rides in London for almost 16 years without any
> organisers and despite considerable opposition, not just from police
> but also from motorists such as those on this very newsgroup who deign
> to pose as cyclists?
So why have the police and the other 'considerable opposition' objected to
you critical wankers then?
Because you and your bum chums are a bunch of total tossers.
Got the figures for the vertical cities yet fuckwit?
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Dave - the small piece of 14th century armour used to protect the armpit.
The Medway Handyman
Get some help for heavens sake you idiot.
" people who threaten my life on a daily basis" by which you mean trained,
tested, safety checked, licenced. regulated, insured, tax paying motorists?
"when I pose no significant threat to them"?
Of course you pose a threat you fuckwit. You and your chums regularly
ignore traffic signals, one way streets, ride on pavements & endanger other
road users. Added to which you don't pay your way - and you wonder why
people regard you as absolute scum?
Oh, BTW where are the figures for the vertical cities?