I think you're right. She talks about how we don't obey traffic laws -- which makes us criminal lowlifes, I guess. In her famous anti-Platinum speech she made a reference (which I didn't quite follow -- I have a hard time sitting through these things) to an incident in which SUV tires were deflated. Apparently bikies were to blame (though I'm not aware of evidence to support that claim), which would make us eco-terrorists -- i.e., criminals and elitists at the same time.
But the core of her argument against bicycling is that the only people who ride bikes in this city are perfectly fit with high-performance, expensive equipment -- which makes us elitists of the worst kind. In a way, I'm personally flattered by that claim; if only it were true, I wouldn't mind being an elitist. Paul T. O'Leary wrote: > From: "Mitchell Nussbaum" <[email protected]> > >> The "criminal lowlifes," of course, are the new neighbors in >> Meadowood. The "elitists" include the mayor, certainly, but also >> bicyclists -- if you caricature us shamelessly enough, with sufficient >> disregard for truth, we make a nice fat target for a culture-war >> politician. > > I wouldn't put it past Thuy to lump bicyclists in, alternately as it fits > the agenda at > hand, with both "criminal lowlifes" AND "elitists". > --------------------- > Paul T. O'Leary > Desktop Insurgent > Madison WI USA > > _______________________________________________ Bikies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.danenet.org/listinfo.cgi/bikies-danenet.org
