[*BCM*] Be the change you want to see in the world.

[Justin Wong]

Right. It's all the SUV owners' fault= Such a trite, mind numbingly ignorant
view. Gas prices are up this season for 2 major reasons. 1: global demand
(think CHINA) 2: those idiots in congress that also don't know about
economics- see the last Energy bill, congress decided to switch gas
additives to ethanol a few months ago, right before peak demand season, the
refineries couldn't keep up... 

-----Original Message-----
From: bostoncriticalmass-bounces at bostoncriticalmass.org
[mailto:bostoncriticalmass-bounces at bostoncriticalmass.org] On Behalf Of
David Hammond
Sent: Tuesday, June 06, 2006 7:57 PM
To: 'Boston Critical Mass'
Subject: RE: [*BCM*] Be the change you want to see in the world.

Yeah, Baby, let's give the hummer-lovers an issue they can rally around and
elect far-right demagogues with.  Maybe then the Republi-fascists can ban
bikes altogether.

And you're what? 125 - 300 lbs (guessing) on a <40 lb bike, and you're gonna
run a 5000 lb SUV off the road? What are you - one of the squirrels on that
Geico commercial?  To which funeral parlor should I send flowers?  Hey, even
better: mention me in your will first.

SUV owners should be ashamed and embarrassed, not righteously empowered.
How can we sustainable transportation enthusiasts accomplish that???

I have a horrendous, gut-wrenching, nauseating photo of an Iraqi child
machine-gunned by U.S. forces.  Suppose prints of that photo with the
caption "Keep Gas Cheap" get shoved under SUV windshields?  Or a simple
"Katrina Thanks You, NOLA Hates You", in 48 point bold arial?

Or how about conducting a NOLA-style funeral procession for the Earth, in
the parking lot of a huge auto/SUV dealership, where everyone gets arrested
in front of the nightly news cameras?

Or simply, how about a CM where folks pause at a busy intersection, point at
the SUVs passing through, and shout "Shame, shame, shame!"

"If you want to win, and not just make a grand gesture of defiance, do not
adopt or accept your enemy's strategy, tactics, battlefield, choice of
weaponry, or process of propaganda"  Leon Trotsky

Let's get it right this time.

Dave Hammond


> 
> Goddamn hippie liberal bullshit. I want to see a world where every SUV 
> has four slashed tires and a gas tank full of sand. I don't want to 
> 'respect' motorists - I want to run them off the road.

"(And so on...)

Hmmmm.  While Boston does seem to be a pretty good fit for you and your
world view, maybe you'd be even happier in Badhgad?

-Turtle
been trying to leave Boston, and it's lovely worldview for a few years now,
but appearantly not trying hard enough 'cause I'm still here..."

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"One day we must come to see that peace is not merely a distant goal we
seek, but that it is a means by which we arrive at that goal.  We must
pursue peaceful ends through peaceful means." - Martin Luther King Jr.
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