Posted on 10/03/2007 10:20:24 PM PDT by yorkie
Now we know who's in charge of Minneapolis streets. It's a loosely organized group of serial lawbreakers called Critical Mass. Last Friday, 600 or so took over city thoroughfares, breaking traffic laws with impunity while police stayed in the background. Every month, Critical Mass cyclists ride through rush hour traffic in cities across the country. Some insist the ride is just a "celebration." Others acknowledge a political agenda: they want to enlighten the rest of us -- greedy capitalists that we are -- about the joys of bike riding so we can join them in saving the planet.
The Mass mob has chosen a strange way to promote its agenda. Critical Mass's philosophy is to infringe on others' rights by disrupting traffic and running red lights.
They block traffic by "corking" -- some riders hold cars at intersections during green lights while the mass passes through a red light. Others stand in the street and wave their bikes defiantly over their heads.
Are you rushing to catch the last few innings of your son's baseball game?
Trying to get to the show you promised your wife for her birthday?
Critical Mass doesn't give a rip. Tough luck for you, Mac, because you're a gas-guzzler and I'm living green.
Why are Minneapolis police condoning this lawbreaking? Because the guys upstairs do. Two City Council members, Cam Gordon and Robert Lilligren, joined the Critical Mass mob on last week's ride. Mayor R.T. Rybak also rode with the mob once several years ago.
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Driving to the hospital with a sick child... going for scheduled chemo treatments...
You are so right - :-(
Can’t wait to see if these people will be doing this during Minnesota’s balmy winters...
Eco-Terrorists. Just as Michael Crichton accurately depicted them in STATE OF FEAR.
Critical Mass
I knew before I even opened the thread.
Isn’t this why they give cops batons???
(Aim for the spokes boys.)
Caution: Foul Language
LOL. I was just thinking “where’s a kid with a stick when you need one”.
Let's just say that if I saw a frustrated motorist gun his car and wipe out a few of these pukes, I'd have a "I didn't see nuthin'" attitude about it.
Critical Mass is to bicyclists as Oliver Stone is to politics. Unfortunately a gullible public, alas even many FReepers wind up believing that most cyclists approve of Critical Mass’s tactics. It should go without saying that most do not. Most of us drive cars, trucks and/or motorcycles as well as ride bicycles.
The Republican National Convention - 2008 - is to be held in Minneapolis.
Same thing here in Berkeley and San Francisco. They sure are good at getting people to hate their guts. Oddly enough, that’s just why I like them and hope they stage many more of these “protests.”
Just in case you thought that maybe these bicycling hippies might not be completely nuts.
Awesome book!
I highly recommend it to anyone who starts talking to me about how much damage we are doing to the environment. Of course most of the time these people are faithful followers of the Church of Algore and stare blankly at me.
search these people on youtube and see what we deal with in new york city. they used to ruin traffic the last friday of every month.
but then the nypd began really heavy ticket and arrest practices. they stretch out huge orange nets and arrest every biker caught inside! now they all just gather in union square, yell about their rights, ride around the streets for an hour or so. but they obey EVERY law! if they even stray an inch onto the sidewalk or go through a red light, they are stopped, checked and ticketed.
minneapolis had better learn these lessons quick!
They can’t be concerned with real everyday concerns... it’s the ideal that is real for them...
We dealt with this folks years ago in Manhattan. I see they are going national.
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