Whose Streets? Our Streets'

Ney York Daily News ^ | August 28, 2004 | Derek Rose

[demkicker]

For an hour and a half last night, thousands of unruly cyclists had the run of some of Manhattan's most famous streets.

At each intersection, a few bikers would stop and block traffic, infuriating cabbies and other motorists.

Whistling, hooting and hollering, the pedalers turned the car-free streets into their own private playgrounds.

"It was fantastic," said Bismarck Decastillo, 39, a thrift store worker from the south Bronx. "The people protested, with freedom. When people can get together, we can do something."

"Whose streets? Our streets," was their slogan, repeated endlessly through the night.

[demkicker]

I can't fathom how any democrat living amongst this bedlam could support this kind of behavior.

[phancypants]

I don't see how this can't reflect badly on the Democratic party at large...I can't imagine the hollering if Republicans were pulling these kinds of stunts. We would be "hurting the working people" by blocking cabs!

[aynrandfreak]

I wouldn't want to use a bicycle to try to block a New York Cabbie.

[cyborg]

We have a democrat wolf in republican clothing called Bloomberg who INVITED the protestors here. Disgusting. I wish I had an eighteen wheeler to clear the street!

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

"When people can get together, we can do something."

A sentiment shared, both in theory and practice, by al-Qaeda, the Taliban and Hamas.

[SauronOfMordor]

This points out a big reason why the Left is pro-gun-control. They depend on being able to intimidate thru the use of large mobs. A large mob is, in itself, a deadly weapon (as Reginald Denny discovered during the LA riots). A mob can beat a man to death, and no individual member is at risk from the victim

An armed man is not all that intimidated by a mob, and has the ability to take a number of mob members with him.

[blackdog]

If they are their streets in fact, just try lighting up their cigarrettes. You'll find out just who's streets they are in New York then our pissant little friends.........

[BenLurkin]

This photo shows they they were not only rude and unreasonable - but physically unattractive as well.

[BenLurkin]

One or two well placed shots from a hidden location might also stampede a large crowd that is blocking a street . . .

[cyborg]

I just had a mean, unkindly thought.

[blackdog]

A mob is a tool. Gather 50 or so for a mini-mob and you've met the minimum number needed to blend in operatives. A few hundred and you get the balance needed for operatives who appear to be counterprotesters or bystanders to start the violence by getting physical with their buddies. Once the dimwits join in, the operatives vanish like farts in the wind. Never take part in a protest where those around you are not familiar to you.

[demkicker]

I don't see how this can't reflect badly on the Democratic party at large...

Maybe it won't reflect on the party at large, but I would hope that the people who are inconvenienced by their pathetic behavior and the audience watching it will be turned off.

One can only hope...

[demkicker]

We have a democrat wolf in republican clothing called Bloomberg who INVITED the protestors here. Disgusting.

I saw that weasely b@stard offering to put the protesters up in motels! Couldn't believe it....

[cyborg]

With cute little pins even!

[tsmith130]

Can a Pakistani cab driver run over a Pakistani protester? A conundrum...

[No Surrender No Retreat]

I hope there will be some curb-side justice unleashed on these domestic terrorists. How does the charge impeding traffic, with a $500.00 fine attached for each one of the bikers? You are right too, the cabbies my develop some brake problems and woe to the bikers(domestic terorists) How many were bused in by the DNC/Tides Foundation? Democrats/liberals , just high-speed names for a "POS." Bush/Cheney 2004

[steplock]

Why didn't anyone just RUN OVER the idiots?

[Eastbound]

'Dozers, Out! Dumpsters, Ho!'

[ikka]

I would be looking for a broom handle to stick between their spokes. Then I would get in my car and start inching along.

[goldfinch]

'When people can get together, we can do something.'

Like, what? What can they do? Block steets? That makes things better? These protesters, like most Democrats, are severely logic-challenged.