[*BCM*] NYC arrests

[Marq Maru]

Have fun, see you on the other side.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <contraelolvido at riseup.net>
To: "Boston Critical Mass" <list at bostoncriticalmass.org>
Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2005 11:47 AM
Subject: Re: [*BCM*] NYC arrests


> 1) It's not actually obvious whether or not its prohibited, since the sign
> only applies to motor vehicles. Furthermore the cambridge police have
> better things to do than write 500 tickets. Anyways cambridge couldn't
> arrest everyone there, if they even had the legal authority to, which they
> don't because its a traffic violation.
>
> 2) And it's $50.00 i believe, not 5,000. But it's irrelevant since you
> aren't required to have an ID when you bike and they can't arrest you for
> refusing to display one.... oh wait, nevermind, thanks massbike, wasn't
> using my constitutionally guaranteed right of movement anyways. Making us
> safer every day... bastards.
>
> 4) I don't really think critical mass is a protest to begin with (at least
> not for most people). It's an opportunity to have fun. And riding through
> the tunnel, everytime, all the folks waiting for a bus cheer us and extend
> hi-fives, and the majority of bus drives laugh or wave or honk.
>
> 5) Why does in intrinsically piss of anyone? You're wavering back and
> forth from calling this a protests, whose goal is to annoy/disrupt, to
> being worried that you piss of police (which is funny). Which is it? Or is
> it that pissing off regular folks driving around in cars is ok but
> annoying the cops isn't.
>
> People are going to ride where they are going to ride. From my
> psudeo-survey/conversations with people prompted by this same stupid
> discussion last month on this list, it seems that the tunnel is most
> people's favorite part of the ride (some even the reason they come). Good
> luck tryin to tell (anonymous, hypothetical, paltonic-abstractions of)
> bikers what's best for them... then again you could go the massbike route
> and just stick up an extortion deal with the fuzz.
>
> This list is like a nexus for people who don't ride critical mass to come
> and complain about it. Don't you have anything better to do with your
> time. Remember last month when ya'll decided to make maps and hand them
> out at the ride?
>
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