Re: Critical Mass planning to disrupt the Republican Convention

07-09-2004, 01:47 PM

> There's a difference between indifference and outright hostility. To
date,
> I don't believe cycling has gotten mixed up in the 'culture wars' --
and I'd
> hate to see it get that way.

so as a biker I am expected to be apolitical? lol.

Do you somehow think that a gathering of people who wish to protest an
event is somehow 'wrong' or less important than the even itself? I am
a citizen acting on my own accord, willing to be guilty of some
misdemeanors to express my political opinion. I am just as important
and just as protected under law an anyone in NYC that day. The RNC is
no more or less of an important organization as TransAlt or the New
York Nets and they have no more right to exclusivity of the streets
than I do.