Hypocritical Mass!

I'm in upstate New York for the weekend, and it turned out the people I'm staying with have a computer with a DSL connection. So I thought I'd sneak in a quickie post, so Dennis doesn't have to go it alone on a Saturday night. (Dennis is already proving himself to be one heck of a good blogger if I may say so; good man, good brain, who now has a good Internet connection!)

Anyway, a group I have discussed before -- Critical Mass (plenty of good links there, folks!) -- is busy hassling not Republicans, but ordinary New Yorkers who are trying to go about their lives:

Manhattan was spin city last night as 5,000 activists on bicycles swarmed city streets and snarled traffic during a protest of the upcoming Republican National Convention. At least 264 riders were arrested on charges of disorderly conduct for blocking intersections near Madison Square Garden and in the East Village, police said.

The arrests marked the first real confrontation between cops and the thousands of protesters who have descended on New York ahead of the convention, which starts Monday.

"The cops said, 'Get out of here!' and I was trying to get out and I was cuffed," complained one busted bicyclist who identified himself as Keith from Brooklyn.

At first, police seemed willing to allow the protesters to have the run of the road as they zigzagged up and down Manhattan from Union Square.

But as the cyclists blocked the intersection of W. 34th St. and Seventh Ave. at the Garden, police began arresting demonstrators.

Many more were collared later at Second Ave. around E. 10th St., near St. Marks Church, which was hosting an after-party for the bicyclists.

"The cops are coming! Move out!" bicyclists screamed to each other as they made their way down Second Ave., hurling their bikes over the church fence in a desperate bid for sanctuary.

Sanctuary? Hey I thought religion was bad!

And such sanctimonious humanitarians these bicyclists are!

"They were blocking intersections all along the way, backing up traffic," said top NYPD spokesman Paul Browne. "I personally witnessed several ambulances that couldn't get through. They had their lights and sirens on."

The ride, organized by an environmental group called Time's Up and dubbed "Critical Mass," is held in the city on the last Friday of every month but never near the scale of last night.

Who cares if people can't get to the hospital and die?

If we can inconvenience just one Republican.....

posted by Eric on 08.28.04 at 11:23 PM





TrackBack

TrackBack URL for this entry:
http://classicalvalues.com/cgi-bin/pings.cgi/1346






Comments

I will never forget, nor forgive, the time, during the run-up to the War in Iraq in 2002, the "humanitarians" were deliberately blocking entrances to emergency wards in hospitals. I HATE the peaceniks. John F. Kerry is a traitor.

A strange synchronicity: Immediately I looked at that link and I saw the word
This is only the beginning. Wait till the Republican convention starts. Here's something I wrote in Dean's World a little while back:

"Countdowns". I immediately thought of the book "Countdown to Chaos" by Jeffrey St. John, describing the Communist influence behind the riot at the Democratic convention in Chicago in 1968. Jeffery St. John was a conservative and an admirer of Ayn Rand.

That poster said "Police state bad! Communism good!":

1) At least this time they're honest enough to admit that they're Communists. Usually, they praise Castro or Mao and then scream "McCarthyism!"

2) If they had any brains, they'd know that Communism _is_ a police state, it is the ultimate police state. Communism makes martial law look like anarchy.

3) If a police state is bad, then why are they doing everything they can to bring it about? If they really are anarchists, as they profess to be, which by definition means _zero_ government -- then why does everything they do or advocate only lead to _more and ever more_ government?

The answer is clear. Back in 1957, a Communist historian in Czecho-Slovakia named Jan Kozak outlined the strategy for Communist revolution. His book was later published here by the House Committee on Un-American Activities. He called this strategy "pressure from below" and "pressure from above".

The pressure from below: riots, terrorism, chaos, the total breakdown of law and order.

The pressure from above: a totalitarian police state to crack down on the chaos.

In other words, like a vice to crush freedom. Lenin, Mao, Castro, Pol Pot, all the Communists used this strategy to seize power. Hitler used it too. It _can_ happen here.

Of course it can happen here.

When did human nature change?

Civilization requires effort.


—==—

Steal this sig:

George Bush never called me “baby killer”.

There is a big difference between William Calley and John Kerry. William Calley is a proven war criminal. For John Kerry we only have his word as an officer and a gentleman.

What is the War Hero Afraid of?
Form 180. Release ALL the records.

The Ads: Video links

M. Simon   ·  August 31, 2004 01:29 AM


March 2007
Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat
        1 2 3
4 5 6 7 8 9 10
11 12 13 14 15 16 17
18 19 20 21 22 23 24
25 26 27 28 29 30 31

ANCIENT (AND MODERN)
WORLD-WIDE CALENDAR


Search the Site


E-mail




Classics To Go

Classical Values PDA Link



Archives




Recent Entries



Links



Site Credits