250 Critical Mass bikers arrested in NYC

Quoth - in
news
Is Critical Mass supported (like Ralph Nader) by the
Republican party?

Critical Mass has been having these monthly bike rides (designed
to raise consciousness for bicycle-friendly streets) for 11
months without incident. This one time, there was a larger
crowd than there had been previously, and the police arrested
many of them for heinous crime of stopping at a traffic light --
the police claimed that the stopped bicyclists were blocking
access to a hospital. It was a lie, part of an ongoing
Bloomberg attempt at intimidating protestors.

Look for more of the same all week.

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Critical Mass has been going on monthly for for 11 years
and 11 months without anyone getting KILLED.
That is a lie, 1997 San Francisco.

=v= Nobody was killed in any Critical Mass in San Francisco.
Nor in any of the monthly mini-masses there. Not in 1997,
not in any year.
_Jym_

Critical Mass has been going on monthly for for 11 years
and 11 months without anyone getting KILLED.
That is a lie, 1997 San Francisco.

=v= Nobody was killed in any Critical Mass in San Francisco.
Nor in any of the monthly mini-masses there. Not in 1997,
not in any year.
_Jym_

Apparently it turned into more of an anti-Bush/RNC protest
than a typical critical mass which is normally only around
a few hundred in NYC.

=v= Actually, since Bike Summer last year, the summer rides
have been much bigger.

I think this is more about current election politics than
about CM.

=v= No doubt. On a ride right before the RNC in a city where
most of the citizenry doesn't want the RNC, you're bound to
get some of that.
_Jym_

Apparently it turned into more of an anti-Bush/RNC protest
than a typical critical mass which is normally only around
a few hundred in NYC.

=v= Actually, since Bike Summer last year, the summer rides
have been much bigger.

I think this is more about current election politics than
about CM.

=v= No doubt. On a ride right before the RNC in a city where
most of the citizenry doesn't want the RNC, you're bound to
get some of that.
_Jym_

Tom Betz wrote in message .69...
Quoth - in
news
Is Critical Mass supported (like Ralph Nader) by the
Republican party?

Critical Mass has been having these monthly bike rides (designed
to raise consciousness for bicycle-friendly streets) for 11
months without incident.

That may be the "design" but the result is exactly the opposite.
I am amazed at how politically ignorant CMers are.

Dick Durbin

Tom Betz wrote in message .69...
Quoth - in
news
Is Critical Mass supported (like Ralph Nader) by the
Republican party?

Critical Mass has been having these monthly bike rides (designed
to raise consciousness for bicycle-friendly streets) for 11
months without incident.

That may be the "design" but the result is exactly the opposite.
I am amazed at how politically ignorant CMers are.

Dick Durbin