[*BCM*] NYC arrests

[contraelolvido at riseup.net]

1) It's not actually obvious whether or not its prohibited, since the sign
only applies to motor vehicles. Furthermore the cambridge police have
better things to do than write 500 tickets. Anyways cambridge couldn't
arrest everyone there, if they even had the legal authority to, which they
don't because its a traffic violation.

2) And it's $50.00 i believe, not 5,000. But it's irrelevant since you
aren't required to have an ID when you bike and they can't arrest you for
refusing to display one.... oh wait, nevermind, thanks massbike, wasn't
using my constitutionally guaranteed right of movement anyways. Making us
safer every day... bastards.

4) I don't really think critical mass is a protest to begin with (at least
not for most people). It's an opportunity to have fun. And riding through
the tunnel, everytime, all the folks waiting for a bus cheer us and extend
hi-fives, and the majority of bus drives laugh or wave or honk.

5) Why does in intrinsically piss of anyone? You're wavering back and
forth from calling this a protests, whose goal is to annoy/disrupt, to
being worried that you piss of police (which is funny). Which is it? Or is
it that pissing off regular folks driving around in cars is ok but
annoying the cops isn't.

People are going to ride where they are going to ride. From my
psudeo-survey/conversations with people prompted by this same stupid
discussion last month on this list, it seems that the tunnel is most
people's favorite part of the ride (some even the reason they come). Good
luck tryin to tell (anonymous, hypothetical, paltonic-abstractions of)
bikers what's best for them... then again you could go the massbike route
and just stick up an extortion deal with the fuzz.

This list is like a nexus for people who don't ride critical mass to come
and complain about it. Don't you have anything better to do with your
time. Remember last month when ya'll decided to make maps and hand them
out at the ride?