Saturday, August 28, 2004

The Arrogance of Protest

It's the start of a week of massively, inexcusibly, arrogant recreational prottests in NYC. The disruption to everyday life for city dwellers is inexcusable but the arrogance of those causing the incidents makes is all the worse and not surprisingly, very devisive.

For the most part these people are not locals. Their protests are really aimed at causing as much chaos and general disruption to the city and its citizen's lives as possible.The point of this escapes me as New York City is most definitely not Bush Country. Want to punish the idiots who voted for this little tin pot hitler? Go to Arizona or Kansas.

Tonight's treat was a cute little circus act of about 1000 bicylces weaving their way through the friday night traffic - the wrong way, ignoring lights, ignoring pedestrian crossings. They are very lucky that NYC drivers are actually quite courteous. Elsewhere they might find drivers a lot more hostile and less willing to give up right-of-way to some arrogant little bastard on a bike. Traffic, as you can imagine, is a mess. I decided it wasn't worth going down to 23rd st to meet friends for dinner. That seems to be an area of focus for the 2-wheeler moron set.


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