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Old 06-29-2003, 07:37 PM   #40 (permalink)
Alan Erskine
 
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Re: What rights? [was "Critical Mass Tunnel Freaks"]

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Note the groups this person is posting to (including rec.bicycles). Trying
to start a flame war
perhaps?

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Alan Erskine
alanerskine(at)optusnet.com.au
Where's the Weapons of Mass Destruction, Mr Bush


"Automator" <weezer@efn.org> wrote in message
news:bdnnhe$e7$1@news.efn.org...
>
> "Just a Cyclist" <popo@copwatch.com> wrote:
> > > Critical Mass is a protest, just like any other, and it has every

right
> to
> > > exist.

> > Yes it does.......but when it stomps on others rights......it has no

place
> > here or anywhere

>
> So ... what "rights" are cyclists stomping on? Drivers have no rights.
> That's why they pay licensing and registration fees, why traffic movement

is
> heavily regulated, why you can't drive until a given age, why your license
> can be taken away at any time. CM riders are not stomping on any rights.
> They are infringing on privelege. You saying CM is taking away rights is
> like say public school kids are stomping on the rights of private school
> brats. (Since public schools take away money and land and prestige that
> COULD go to the private school.)
>
> Get it straight what is a right and what is a privledge.
>
>





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