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Path: num2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!num1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!number.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border3.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!goblin3!goblin2!goblin1!goblin.stu.neva.ru!feeder.news-service.com!tudelft.nl!txtfeed1.tudelft.nl!dedekind.zen.co.uk!zen.net.uk!hamilton.zen.co.uk!prichard.zen.co.uk.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <4e389b80$0$2489$db0fefd9@news.zen.co.uk> From: Nuxx Bar  Newsgroups: uk.rec.cycling Subject: Re: The Battle of Blackfriars Date: Wed, 03 Aug 2011 01:51:12 +0100 References: <4il437pfc7jqssh4c7uq5lnttl5ei8tqev@4ax.com>  <4e35014f$0$2949$fa0fcedb@news.zen.co.uk>  Lines: 42 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.7; rv:5.0) Gecko/20110624 Thunderbird/5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To:  Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: Zen Internet NNTP-Posting-Host: af63adea.news.zen.co.uk X-Trace: DXC=oPGF]3d>DkIYW7lQM;eP^A0g@SS;SF6nGR9OH0:RnEND<2;RXiaHNbL`:ITG5aA:cG=PV]^NlN3VH X-Complaints-To: abuse@zen.co.uk Bytes: 3153 Xref: perfectly-safe.chapmancentral.co.uk uk.rec.cycling:820014

On 02/08/2011 07:30, Doug wrote: > On Jul 31, 8:16 am, Nuxx Bar  wrote: >> On 29/07/2011 08:11, Doug wrote: >> >>> On 29-Jul-2011, Tom Crispin wrote: >> >>>> Cyclists, led by London Assembly member, Jenny Jones, are set to do >>>> battle with TfL and the Mayor of London after plans to increase the >>>> speed limit on Blackfriars Bridge and remove all cycle lanes are due >>>> to start this Friday. >> >>>> http://ibikelondon.blogspot.com/2011/07/last-stand-in-battle-for-blac.... >> >>> Interestingly they are planning to influence Critical Mass into attending >>> this event, probably by taking over the start of the ride, as sometimes >>> happens. >> >> But how can anyone "take over" or "influence" RLJ Mass when it's >> "leaderless"? >> > They can take-over because it is leaderless, obviously, but only if > those who follow agree to be taken-over.

You've just given me a great idea. "Take over" Critical Mass and then lead it off the top of a cliff (getting out of the way at the last moment of course). What a wonderful way of removing all belligerent, obstructive and car-hating psycholists from London at a stroke. Suddenly there would be unprecedented harmony between the capital's road users, and the remaining (well-behaved and reasonable) cyclists would find that they were at last respected and taken seriously.

(I'm sure that certain people will save the link to this post so that in years to come they can cite it as an "example" of how I supposedly "hate cyclists" and "want them dead"....)

> I amazes me how few understand how anarchy in action works and they > seem baffled by it.

It amazes me how anyone who calls himself an "anarchist" can have, at the very top of his list of priorities, a fervent wish to stop the masses from going where they want, when they want, so that they can be controlled by the state. How is that anything but utterly contradictory?