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[brynndragon]

From various and sundry sources:

Judge orders NYC and Critical Mass to get along

Kudoes to the librarian who had the balls to tell these asshats to quit it

It's the expresion on Clinton's face that makes it

Finally,

I'm a Chevrolet Corvette!

You're a classic - powerful, athletic, and competitive. You're all about winning the race and getting the job done. While you have a practical everyday side, you get wild when anyone pushes your pedal. You hate to lose, but you hardly ever do.

Take the Which Sports Car Are You? quiz.

Comments

[brontosproximo.livejournal.com]

a ten minute "see-for-yourself" report that conclusively shows that Vice President Dick Cheney's claims to Kennedy County Sherriff's Deputies in south Texas is a total fabrication.

[motomuffin.livejournal.com]

(I hope you asked rklein's permission before you posted that link -- it's hosted on his server and if it goes all over the place he may exceed his bandwidth quota in a second to the tune of many $$$$s!)

[benndragon.livejournal.com]

Didn't notice it was on a person server, I'll throw it in my LJ photobook.

[metahacker.livejournal.com]

"I need a person! Quick, to the person server!" :)

[richspk.livejournal.com]

LOL! My person server hurts!

I had the picture on my speakeasy.net web space. I'm pretty darned sure they'd just throttle it if the bandwidth usage got out of hand and not charge me a cent (beyond my regular monthly charge). I like speakeasy.

[benndragon.livejournal.com]

That should say personal server, and the link has been changed to point at my LJ scrapbook.

[tober.livejournal.com]

Meh. With respect to Critical Mass, although probably not all actions of the NYC police are justified, I hope that they will eventually prevail over those asshats. The police should explore all legal avenues to stopping Critical Mass until either they have succeeded or they have exhausted all options. Critical Mass pretty much brings SF to a halt each month, and I'm sure that the NYC police justifiably don't want it to do the same thing to Manhattan. The claim that "we have no leader, ergo, despite that we gather together in large numbers and in a scheduled manner for a common purpose, we don't need a parade license" is, in my estimation, entirely specious. The judge who wrote that "Riding a bicycle on city streets is lawful conduct, as long as one observes the applicable traffic laws and rules" is, strictly speaking, of course, quite correct, but Critical Mass has never been known for paying even the slightest attention to traffic laws and rules. Furthermore, part of the unstated purpose of CM is to be as willfully disruptive and inconveniencing to uninvolved parties as possible, and that is Not Okay - neither ethically nor legally.

[mr-teem.livejournal.com]

The NYPD has been escalating their actions against what had been an otherwise obscure act with a slight amount of activism that caused no more problems than any given flash mob. Because there was the assumption that a large number of bicyclists posed a hazard to either automotive traffic or themselves, the NYPD had been escorting the Manhattan bicyclists.

But just before the RNC's convention, it became clear that the NYPD had decided to change it's relationship with ordinary citizens exercising their legal rights. (Actually, the change could have been predicted by the thuggish tactics used on the anti-war protests that ocurred prior to Georgie's Most Excellent Iraqi Invasion. But that's a digression.)

The San Francisco CM rides are, if I recall correctly, more anarchist in nature and celebrate disobeying traffic laws. But not all of the groups beleive that, nor has the Manhattan group been accused of that. I know that the group in Detroit used to brag about running red lights a few years ago.

(In my opinion, they deserve the same treatment as the bicyclists who speed through red lights, stop signs and crosswalks around my neighborhood: to be taken off of their bikes and beaten with truncheons. Or arrested. I'm not picky.)

But the judge's decision was correct: people exercising lawful conduct should not be harassed by law enforcement. The NYPD deserved to be slapped around on this one.

[benndragon.livejournal.com]

I have heard a tale of the bastardliness of the SF Critical Mass people. An SUV was stuck partially in an intersection wht CM came down the road. It tried to back out of the way, but some idiot decided to ride behind the SUV that was slowly moving backwards and got tapped at about 2mph. A dozen CM bikers coverged on the poor woman driving the SUV and berated her, causing her to break down in tears (remember, this is SF, where that sort of shit doesn't result in said bikers being run over by an SUV). Moments there after about a dozen and a half non-CM witnesses (including my friend) came to her defense and told them to fuck off because it was clearly the biker's fault for riding behind a car moving in reverse. The cops took the word of the actual witnesses over the CM folks, since they actually saw the incident.

I don't know how it works here in Boston. Either it completely doesn't, or the weekly closing of Mass Ave in the summer appeased them, because I'm not really seeing any middle ground here. . .

Critical Mass

[arcticelf.livejournal.com]

The group that used to ride in worcester always followed trafic laws, we'd form blocks of riders about car sized and follow trafic laws riding through down town at commute time.

The SF crowd are total asshats, I've seen thier 'ride' go by and the chaos that follows it.

AE