Re: Take over Critical Mass?

Critical Mass gives cycling a bad name. For that reason, I think that they
are all freaks and social misfits.
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Take over Critical Mass? by Michael Bluejay
Jul 07, 2004 10:22 PST

Sounds good to me. We have to show people in cars that they are wrong,

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causing traffic trouble in the streets, it gets their attention. Gandhi

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ML King showed us that Civil Disobedience always works. If we can cause
enough traffic tie-ups, perhaps we can get to GRIDLOCK! If someone goes

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wrong way down a one-way street, just follow them. And let's just apply
subtle peer pressure if people start going crazy. We could all start
chanting, "Don't be a jerk! Don't be a jerk!" Okay, that's not subtle,

but

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it's festive, and intimidates people in cars.

Since I work at UT, it would be convenient for me to participate, and I

can

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recruit other like-minded simpletons (as I did on the one CM ride I
participated in 18 months or so ago). However, I'm only interested if

other

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riders carry some protection, a stick, mace a loud airhorn, etc.

A) Follow common sense traffic laws our way

This means detours down one way streets going the wrong way, mass

blocking

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of traffic signals, taking up both lanes of Lamar between 24th and 12th
"just for the fun of it". But be careful, remember that lady that

panicked

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in the truck, and ran over Mary? Too bad.

B) Try not to be complete [censored] all the time, and only to cars

If I'm going to be an [censored], I prefer to do it in a crowd, I start to

feel

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like some kind of Republican itching to bomb A-rab children and having a

big

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frat boy party to celebrate the fact.

Friends report that recent Critical Mass rides have had as few as 3

people.

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That's a far cry from the 100-200 from years past. When CM took a turn

for

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the hostile, I didn't try to reform it, because I felt that if that's

the

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sort of ride the participants wanted to have, that was their right -- I

just

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suggested what to do.

But with the numbers dwindling so much, CM is now ripe for being

reinvented.

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With a large enough presence we can re-establish CM as it was originally
practiced and envisioned: as a confrontational demonstration with cars.
Hell, not just a demonstration causing traffic problems, but a cute
CELEBRATION, with costumes, instruments, signs, banners, and dozens of
cyclists.

Who's with me?

-MBJ-

P.S. I think that if we have 12+ riders it's reasonable to take two or

three

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lanes on Lamar, that would be cool.