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<DIV>Your intentions are pure and many on this list agree with your
intentions. Everyone has to realize that many participants at the ride
itself are not on this listserve. Setting up ground rules would
take communicating your intentions to the hundreds of actual riders to change
CM. You may even find resistance to rules among the members of the list,
too.</DIV>
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<DIV>If you try, I am sure you will make some progress and find allies.</DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=ThoM3@aol.com href="mailto:ThoM3@aol.com">ThoM3@aol.com</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=list@bostoncriticalmass.org
href="mailto:list@bostoncriticalmass.org">list@bostoncriticalmass.org</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Friday, September 28, 2007 10:16
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [*BCM*] This is the coolest
thread I've ever been a member of</DIV>
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<DIV>While this email does not make entire sense, it raises some long standing
concerns with CM, mostly underscored by the proposed "loose rules"
outlined earlier and the Cantabridgian who saw CM not yield to an ambulance.
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<DIV>In recent rides (I was not there tonite) I have seen an increase in a)
running red lights (not massing and passing) b) a lack of desire to mass up c)
antagonizing motorists trapped and d) worst of all, a desire to get into it
with the cops.</DIV>
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<DIV>While run ins with cops has always been an issue, people were smart about
it, dealing with the authorities, not bait and run. This is just wrong and
defeats the purpose of CM.</DIV>
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<DIV>I love you guys, but we need to bring it back to square one..</DIV>
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<DIV>In a message dated 9/28/2007 9:40:05 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
mholley345@aol.com writes:</DIV>
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<DIV>Well I just got back from CM and there were a number of things I would
like to bring up, as we bike to assert our rights on the road<BR>it's
important to realize that we are pissing some people off, who cares right
but when our group breaks down and we become single riders again there is a
certain amount of peril involved I personally was assaulted by a New
Hampshire driver several years ago after I separated from the group
and even tonite after <BR>i was sepated in Camb the cops were somewhat
hostile, anyway i must go but please be aware of this and i'm inteerested in
knowing if there are other <BR>people who have experienced the
same, <BR> On another tact we should
always ride around City Hall and the statehouse, that may have been the most
fulfilling moment I have ever had at CM<BR>that and stopping on The bridge
to admirew the beauty of a moonrise, Thanks to all who attended and to
all those who gawked. Michael</DIV></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV>
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