NYC, August 29 2004
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- twooh0
wow okay. i guess i must be lying, especially if ii've been arguing this whole time. i mean let's see. how many protesting groups are there in the city right now?
and many of the posts were talking about critical mass, but i never said "critical mass".
anyways, i'd rather get some work done tonight rather than someone who's going to end up saying 'i'm lying'. i have no purpose to lie.
- CyBrainX0
I love Critical Mass but I wish they didn't block traffic and blow the traffic lights.
However, it has been very hard, to an undemocratic degree to get a protest permit this month.
I also think the 2-abreast restriction from the police was just an excuse to: as Chief Wiggum would say - "kick some hippy ass".
- lowimpakt0
pah. I hope you can get to your work, shop then bed with ease sometime soon. you sound stressed and sound in need of unrestricted working, shopping and sleeping. afterall that's what cities are there for.
:)
- twooh0
oh god, you're telling me. its 4AM and im still up.........
;*(
- lowimpakt0
9.06 here. just had my breakfast and kissed my girlfriend goodbye. It's a beautiful day. five hours study. Finish that brochure and poster job. maybe go for a cycle.
get some sleep, maybe you won't be so cranky when trying to cross the city tomorrow
:)
- pascii0
big broadcast here in switzerland : ) i hope you will be rid of gwb soon..
- robotron3k0
fuuuuccckkkk!... welll, it's 4am, nyc time, just got out of jail. i was walking my bike on the sidewalk and grabbed by a policeman on Park and 26th. nypd charged me with DisCon (disorderly conduct) wtf right!? so i spent the rest of the day/night in jail, being handcuffed and re-handcuffed and moved from jail to jail. there were so many stories, so many trumpt up charges on others. one guy that got beaten by the cops pretty badly, tons of stories how cops were pushing over women on bikes using them as roadblocks, random macing, random arrests of bike delivery drivers and people just walking around town. the cops also brought out their new vespas and they used them to bully and block at will...
i now have 40 new friends from my cell, a police record and my fingerprints on record nypd.
btw, twooh, your a putz. the police used emergency vehicles to plow through the crowds and divide up any protests. if you paid any attention to anything all week you'd realize there was no real emergencies, they just used ambulances as wedges to drive between people... things aren't always about you, twooh.
booyah!
- twooh0
"btw, twooh, your a putz. the police used emergency vehicles to plow through the crowds and divide up any protests"
Yes. Im sure that ambulance that was heading towards St. Vincent's hospital on 6th ave was just plowing people.......
Haha.
Things arent about me? You're excluding a large part of the population in NYC! Haha.
- twooh0
whatever. its 4:40AM. i dont want to talk to another ignorant leftist.
- twooh0
it just pisses me off that people actually think i'm lying. talk about self-centeredness...
- lowimpakt0
the ignorant left v.s. the sleepy right.
- twooh0
haha. im not a right-winger. i said 5 times i think, that i was not pro-bush, and was anti-Iraq in a lot of ways.
oh whatever, forget it. i was afraid this was going to happen. it's too late to be frustrated. need a smoke...
- DutchBoy0
twooh, i have so much compassion for your misery. I think i am going to call the UN now, to see if they can help you in this terrible situation. The horror you are going through now, because of protests is just completely inhuman and brutal. Take my apologies, for i see now the huge humiliation and dehumanization you and your family and friends go through now in New York. This really makes me cry like a little boy.
- unfittoprint0
multiple screenname disorder.
'nuff said.
- ctrlRmB0
Seriously... I agree with CyBrain. Traffic is a pain in the ass... but some things are more important than getting to the mall.
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A minor inconvenience... A friend of mine was participating in the Critical Mass bike rally. He's a peaceful, law abiding citizen. Like so many others, he was coralled by the police and scooped up for detention. He was put in a holding cell for 24 hours.
When all was said and done, the arrests probably caused more traffic congestion than they solved.
- lowimpakt0
if they were purposfully blocking emergency vehicles such as ambulances as twooh said I wouldn't stand for that. No cm i have ever been on has slowed down emergency vehicles, buses etc.
Id say this level of arresting had little to do with traffic concerns, more to do with an exertion of control and 'security' pre-convention.
- DutchBoy0
this was just some of the action...
robotron3k
(aug 29 04, 06:16)
---jesus h. christ!! that video is awesome! what happens is sad, but it makes me feel good to see this crowd being so fanatic in showing their feelings and solidarity. this jsut confirms it is your govt. that makes the US look bad, not the people!
thx for sharing, robotron!
- lowimpakt0
aghhh jeez 49 megs. I wanna see.
- nick0
thats insane.
what conference though?