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Take over Critical Mass?
"Fran Stine" wrote in message ... Take over Critical Mass? by Michael Bluejay Jul 07, 2004 10:22 PST Sounds good to me. We have to show people in cars that they are wrong, so by causing traffic trouble in the streets, it gets their attention. Gandhi and ML King showed us that Civil Disobedience always works. If we can cause enough traffic tie-ups, perhaps we can get to GRIDLOCK! If someone goes the wrong way down a one-way street, just follow them. And let's just apply subtle peer pressure if people start going crazy. We could all start chanting, "Don't be a jerk! Don't be a jerk!" Okay, that's not subtle, but it's festive, and intimidates people in cars. Since I work at UT, it would be convenient for me to participate, and I can recruit other like-minded simpletons (as I did on the one CM ride I participated in 18 months or so ago). However, I'm only interested if other riders carry some protection, a stick, mace a loud airhorn, etc. A) Follow common sense traffic laws our way This means detours down one way streets going the wrong way, mass blocking of traffic signals, taking up both lanes of Lamar between 24th and 12th "just for the fun of it". But be careful, remember that lady that panicked in the truck, and ran over Mary? Too bad. B) Try not to be complete assholes all the time, and only to cars If I'm going to be an asshole, I prefer to do it in a crowd, I start to feel like some kind of Republican itching to bomb A-rab children and having a big frat boy party to celebrate the fact. Friends report that recent Critical Mass rides have had as few as 3 people. That's a far cry from the 100-200 from years past. When CM took a turn for the hostile, I didn't try to reform it, because I felt that if that's the sort of ride the participants wanted to have, that was their right -- I just suggested what to do. But with the numbers dwindling so much, CM is now ripe for being reinvented. With a large enough presence we can re-establish CM as it was originally practiced and envisioned: as a confrontational demonstration with cars. Hell, not just a demonstration causing traffic problems, but a cute CELEBRATION, with costumes, instruments, signs, banners, and dozens of cyclists. Who's with me? -MBJ- P.S. I think that if we have 12+ riders it's reasonable to take two or three lanes on Lamar, that would be cool. |
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Critical Mass gives cycling a bad name. For that reason, I think that they
are all freaks and social misfits. "s Stine" wrote in message ... "Fran Stine" wrote in message ... Take over Critical Mass? by Michael Bluejay Jul 07, 2004 10:22 PST Sounds good to me. We have to show people in cars that they are wrong, so by causing traffic trouble in the streets, it gets their attention. Gandhi and ML King showed us that Civil Disobedience always works. If we can cause enough traffic tie-ups, perhaps we can get to GRIDLOCK! If someone goes the wrong way down a one-way street, just follow them. And let's just apply subtle peer pressure if people start going crazy. We could all start chanting, "Don't be a jerk! Don't be a jerk!" Okay, that's not subtle, but it's festive, and intimidates people in cars. Since I work at UT, it would be convenient for me to participate, and I can recruit other like-minded simpletons (as I did on the one CM ride I participated in 18 months or so ago). However, I'm only interested if other riders carry some protection, a stick, mace a loud airhorn, etc. A) Follow common sense traffic laws our way This means detours down one way streets going the wrong way, mass blocking of traffic signals, taking up both lanes of Lamar between 24th and 12th "just for the fun of it". But be careful, remember that lady that panicked in the truck, and ran over Mary? Too bad. B) Try not to be complete assholes all the time, and only to cars If I'm going to be an asshole, I prefer to do it in a crowd, I start to feel like some kind of Republican itching to bomb A-rab children and having a big frat boy party to celebrate the fact. Friends report that recent Critical Mass rides have had as few as 3 people. That's a far cry from the 100-200 from years past. When CM took a turn for the hostile, I didn't try to reform it, because I felt that if that's the sort of ride the participants wanted to have, that was their right -- I just suggested what to do. But with the numbers dwindling so much, CM is now ripe for being reinvented. With a large enough presence we can re-establish CM as it was originally practiced and envisioned: as a confrontational demonstration with cars. Hell, not just a demonstration causing traffic problems, but a cute CELEBRATION, with costumes, instruments, signs, banners, and dozens of cyclists. Who's with me? -MBJ- P.S. I think that if we have 12+ riders it's reasonable to take two or three lanes on Lamar, that would be cool. |
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Take over Critical Mass?
"Holden Caufield" writes:
Critical Mass gives cycling a bad name. For that reason, I think that they are all freaks and social misfits. Davey (Critical Mass Rider) Crockett stands up and takes a Bow |
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Holden Caufield wrote:
Critical Mass gives cycling a bad name. For that reason, I think that they are all freaks and social misfits. Davey_Crockett wrote: Davey (Critical Mass Rider) Crockett stands up and takes a Bow Well you do post to rbr so you fit the 'freak and social misfit' profile admirably. |
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Take over Critical Mass?
Take over Critical Mass? by Michael Bluejay
Jul 07, 2004 10:22 PST =v= Well, this is interesting. A followup "repost" that spreads to other lists. Makes one wonder whether this is a troll. =v= Again, where is this from? It doesn't sound like his usual line of argument, and I don't see it on his website: http://michaelbluejay.com/ =v= What's more, a Google search doesn't turn it up, and if it was truly written on July 7th, I think it'd be in Google by now. _Jym_ |
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Take over Critical Mass?
Jym Dyer writes:
Take over Critical Mass? by Michael Bluejay Jul 07, 2004 10:22 PST =v= Well, this is interesting. A followup "repost" that spreads to other lists. Makes one wonder whether this is a troll. =v= Again, where is this from? It doesn't sound like his usual line of argument, and I don't see it on his website: http://michaelbluejay.com/ =v= What's more, a Google search doesn't turn it up, and if it was truly written on July 7th, I think it'd be in Google by now. _Jym_ My mailer (emacs/gnus) sensed an abnormal situation and warned when I tried to reply. Without wasting time looking, I have a notion the original poster has a misconfigured news/mailer client, uses a lamer news-server, or it might be a fsck'd up Google Bomb. |
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