Anyone else wondering like I am why the police are cordoning off the streets which AREN'T visible by the cameras, nor will the police allow photos of the arrests...

Seems to be Police State. Yes. Perhaps even fascist.

I got out of there right before it got ugly on 2nd Ave.

On 2nd Ave and 11th, I saw what was obviously an undercover cop videotaping people. I announced to riders that he was a cop and that under the Handschau Agreement, what he was doing was illegal.

His reply: "Fuck you asshole".

New York's Finest, indeed.

I suggest that now is the time to get "Black Panther" on ANY and ALL NYPD!

the police state HAS ARRIVED! Time to fight back! or do some of you still think that "pacifism" will get ya anywhere?

Was the SUV driver arrested? I sure hope so. F@$# the police. Take pictures anyway. Let the world see what they do.

Yeah, I hate traffic tie-ups caused by cars.

Home now, getting some rest, for the rest of the weekend. Yippee

This was my first critical mass, it was great.

THANK YOU! to the Critical Mass riders, who, along with the DNC2RNC marchers, have shown themselves to be in the vanguard of all those who will NOT SHUT UP, and will NOT BE STILL, while the Refuckingpublican Party attempts to consolidate fascist power in Amerika. People live in this country with RIGHTS to say what they want to whomever they want. And we say to George Bush - FUCK YOU and the assholes you rode in on!

Looks like the cops are finally kicking some ass. I hate traffic tie-ups caused by neo-hippies.

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don't worry my friend those of us who are awake in this world and are of good will and character hate you neo-leberalism bastards. Yes... You are a neo-liberal my friend!

when I return to the U.S. from abroad it will be for the purpose of taking you fuckers out with! Believe me... I will NOT be entering through traditional gateways... I will walk over the border in the dark of night if I must.


signed Eric.
a white american male and former marine.
ya know... someone who can get real up close to personal to ya before ya evn know whats happening

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don't worry my friend those of us who are awake in this world and are of good will and character hate you neo-leberalism bastards. Yes... You are a neo-liberal my friend!

when I return to the U.S. from abroad it will be for the purpose of taking you fuckers out with! Believe me... I will NOT be entering through traditional gateways... I will walk over the border in the dark of night if I must.


signed Eric.
a white american male and former marine.
ya know... someone who can get real up close to personal to ya before ya evn know whats happening

I ride my bike everywhere. I can't imagine being arrested for doing that. Fuck all police. Fuck you all. Let them go! That's so fucked. We're with you in the heartland, NYC Critical Mass.

Looks like the cops are finally kicking some ass. I hate traffic tie-ups caused by neo-hippies.

I see all the traffic cams that show these areas of "trouble" are down and displaying a message "camera being serviced".


Thts fucking rich! Please... Let the world hear the good news that at least one cop won't be making it home tonight alive!

Tonight was just awesome. Went through two barriers, over one Captain and outrode two cruisers.

I think I will try out for the Olympics, next.

@Eric Festo

If you advocate killing people then you become just like them.

Dan haha that's great. Glad you made it without arrest and with your bike ;)

Well at least they are getting some exercise.

what better way to put down the blood-thirsty criminals in the White House than to ride en masse through NYC! if only people could ride bikes safely EVERY day in their own cities without being run down by ignorant savage jerks life would be a paradise...

right on Critical Mass! an historic evening in these United States! Whose States? Our States! Let anyone try to tell us otherwise, the pathetic drooling idiots.

Looks like the cops are finally kicking some ass. I hate traffic tie-ups caused by neo-hippies.

Dear Eric Festo,

Riding a bike is NOT illegal. I'm a Republican but I'm not happy about how the government is eating away at our rights - including yours. Killing people in the dark was the klan's solution and it failed dismally.

Paul

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sorry! too late! was already in the USMC and went to Panam in '89.

there's no such thing as an honest pacifist. Only gate-keepers. sorry the cops and the military have throughout history been the perps of REAL violence. go seed your pacifism to them.

the rest of us who are able bodied will defend ourselves!

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sorry! too late! was already in the USMC and went to Panam in '89.

there's no such thing as an honest pacifist. Only gate-keepers. sorry the cops and the military have throughout history been the perps of REAL violence. go seed your pacifism to them.

the rest of us who are able bodied will defend ourselves and others!

I'm NOT "advocating killing people"... fro NO REASON! I am advocating self defense and justice for unarmed people!

U say the KKK "failed"?!?!? Funny it seems to me they simply have taken off their hoods and now hold highn offices:

White supremacist wins Republican nomination for Tennessee congressional seat
 http://www.wsws.org/articles/2004/aug2004/hart-a14.shtml

Nice try thogh o lsave one who is moronic enuff to label himself a "republiCON"... That's nearly as bad as calling oneself a demoRAT or CONnunist!

Get a fucking clue you fucking slave!

the Declaration of Independence
Well people... It's time for EVERYONE to read this document. Either again or for the first time. Read and understand what it gives "we the people" the RIGHT TO DO! No matter what the U.S. government says or even conveniently "amends" today. With or without this document this is the right of any peoples anwhere on this earth!

it Was not pleasant to 'spank' the state in 1775 and it wont be pleasant now - 50 of the 56 signers of the Unanimous Declaration (often, mistakenly, called the Declaration of Independence)... lost either their lives, fortunes, or families - some lost all three!


 http://www.empirewatch.org/pages/_archives/documents/Declaration_Independence/index.html

If I recall correctly, a bunch of bicycle hippies tried to pull this same stunt in St. Louis a few years back. The cops belted them with tear gas and stole their bikes, I believe.

Just remember Sunshine Boys, New York does not equal America. I think that fact will be made painfully clear by November.

Eric Festo--
I read through your site and all that I came away with is that you hate Jews, have a very limited weltanschauung and lack a grasp on what pulls and pushes the world. I also came away from your site sensing that you have serious psychological problems and that maybe you had a very unhappy childhood. You certainly aren't happy now--you are filled with hate.
Sincerely,
Christine J
PS. I am not a right-wing republican....I am a vegan, a feminist and a humanitarian.

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thank goodness for that! people move to NYC to escape "ameriKKKa" ya fucking dip-shit.

I suggest ya stay the fuck out else ya may get your bigoted teeth kicked in by some hard hittin niggas!

Dear Eric Festo,

Riding a bike is NOT illegal. I'm a Republican but I'm not happy about how the government is eating away at our rights - including yours. Killing people in the dark was the klan's solution and it failed dismally.

Paul

At the forefront of what empire watch? To lead others must follow, but instead of listening to where they want to go you are stepping out in front and trying to take everyone to a place they don't want to go, just like the communist party of the USSR. The whole point is we don't want a totalitarian violence filled state. Just because you would attack it from the left or wherever you are, I'm just as repulsed by the hate filled society you are trying to revolution us into as the state we live in now. Tolerance and equal opportunity before the law are necessities for any working society

 http://iraqthemodel.blogspot.com/
read and learn

 http://iraqthemodel.blogspot.com/
read and learn

For Eric Festo--
I did a little research on the word "anti-Semite" and you are right.....the original word is judenhass which is German for Jew hatred. It was an ugly, impolite term, so in 1879, Wilhelm Marr created the word anti-Semitism...it also was the first time Jews were described as a race...an inferior race. The word has commonly used to describe racism/hatred against Jews--and yeah, buddy--you have a problem with them. I am not Jewish, but even I can see that when you write "dont hate "Jews" only fascist bigoted ones (which most have been conditioned to be). " you reek of Jew Hatred....your website says you are pro-humanity, but yet you would celebrate the death of a police officer (last I checked, they are members of the human race) and Jews are humans, yet you say you hate most of them, too.

What happened to you in your childhood to cause you to be so angry and so filled with hate? Have you been in therapy? Have you had any fulfilling relationships? Do you have friends? Are you lonely? Do you have any sense of spirituality or empathy towards your fellow human being? Also, why do you not state that you are pro-animal rights or pro-vegetarian? Do you eat animals? Do you know how animals die? Do you have any compassion at all????
Basically, you seem to be a self-righteous, smug, hateful person.....your comments and your website can do nothing to make the world a better place....and if you indeed were a marine, then how could you celebrate the death of a police officer????

"You fucking pacifists are in for a big ass whoppin'! I feel sorry for ya all."

it's not impossible to reach the cops, to break thru and get them to join us. you attack and you give them a reason to attack back with 1000x more firepower. we need to get the cops to join us-

it's not Dems vs. Repubs
its We the People vs the elite bastards that are raping the world for their own greed.

dear cops- why are you a stooge for the billionaires?

break thru to one cop, then others will follow. just one cop can start a tidal wave

RNC Protest Emergency Number

I hope you never need this but write it on your palm anyway.

If you are arrested or detained, call the National Lawyers Guild at 212-679-6018. They will also have 400 to 500 lawyers and legal observers in the crowds on Sunday. They are wearing green hats.

---Tolerance and equal opportunity before the law are necessities for any working society---

thats been destroyed MORON!

I suggest U go and read the "presidential orders" that shrub signed on this friday evening. visit whitehouse.gov

brief summery for ya.
Goss, Rumsfeld, Cheney... are now on the board that "polices" and supposedly protect civil liberties. Simply put... homeland INsecurity is now not only in charge of producing fascist laws but at the same time policing themselves.

Have fun ya pacifist freaks! I self exiled myself to Thailand until the day Americans are ready to stand up and start fighting back. and YES... with force!

or do ya think the cops will be nice to ya all if ya flash a peace symbol at them!

I hopped off my bike to tape at a few locations. I got some pretty good footage until some jerk started shouting that I was an undercover cop and people began throwing things.

or Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
August 27, 2004

Executive Order Establishing the President's Board on Safeguarding Americans' Civil Liberties








By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and in order to further strengthen protections for the rights of Americans in the effective performance of national security and homeland security functions, it is hereby ordered as follows:

Section 1. Policy. The United States Government has a solemn obligation, and shall continue fully, to protect the legal rights of all Americans, including freedoms, civil liberties, and information privacy guaranteed by Federal law, in the effective performance of national security and homeland security functions.

Sec. 2. Establishment of Board. To advance the policy set forth in section 1 of this order (Policy), there is hereby established the President's Board on Safeguarding Americans' Civil Liberties (Board). The Board shall be part of the Department of Justice for administrative purposes.

Sec. 3. Functions. The Board shall:

read more at:
 http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2004/08/20040827-3.html

I don't use racial slurs, gridlock a city, and suggest killing people to end racism, traffic, and violence. But that's just me

As a cop this kind of thing makes me howl. Protesters, activists whatever moniker you hide behind, you all think you're the collective man, the shit, A fucking # 1--until we arrive on the scene that is. There isn't a single one of you that has the balls it takes to do my job. Hell, I doubt if any one of you has a job. See you on my beat babies.

Eric Festo-
So you are in Thailand, huh? Hope you stay away from the exploited prostitutes and are working towards helping the people there.

I guess your hatred and violent streak stem from your lack of self-esteem and the frustration you must have that you haven't really accomplished so much in your life. YOU DO KNOW WHAT I AM TALKING ABOUT...and all the painful memories from Sauquoit Valley HS. Get over it....see a therapist to deal with your anger issues or you will be a very lonely person...

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see! this is what the pig slaves are about!

sorry ya fut fucking pig but I was already in the USMC... No thanx! I have a heart and sould and prefer not to be a thug for the elite.

like I said... When I come back to U.S. I will be sneaking in (walk over the border)

it will be when the days come when a critical mass of people are ready to take you fucks out via any and all means.

You only wish all the people who are fighting against you were little pacifist wimps.

U R gonna have a big wake-up ya redneck fucker. I hope U start kissing your wives and childrean like ya really mean it for I predict your blood will be spilling in the streets very soon!

Hey! Who knows? Maybe the no-violent crowed will rush in to protect ya.!

As a Vet I have heard the words uttered much lateley by other vets.

words that state "I am ready to go to war against this illegit government and do what I must do to any and all who stand in the way".

DEAL with that ya fuck! I am in no way unique in this beliefe... it's EVERYWHERE! Even among your ranks (albeit inside the minority ranks)

have you ever rode a bike? cops and right wingers can say whatever they want but does anybody deny that critical mass is very enjoyable? critics should try it once. once a month you get to ride where you want as slow as you want. it's not like you're standing around arguing about politics.

@ben

amen.

I wish this forum had a filter (personal one, you know, like Usenet). "EmpireWatch" is too full of negative energy to read anymore of his crap.

Critical Mass? Nice place to visit. Kinda expensive though.

So empire watch, are you running out of money to exploit young Thai women and support your drug habbit? Is that why you are so angry? Family cut you off?

as an austrian, i cannot stand for this talk of antisemitism. what do americans know about antisemitism? who among you has ever really placed any number of jews in an oven? very few, i assure you. american jews do not know what it is to be victims of real antisemitism. americans have not earned the right to use that word. you lack the work ethic to earn it. you lack the ovens and the camps and brown-shirted youth. jews who use it might be better served by saying, "shut up. i do not want to hear it" because really that is what you mean.

i am sorry that my english is maybe not so good. peace for everyone.

It does old blooded-red heart good to see demonstration of neo-lib sissies jackbooting each others. Young neophyte Eric Fussy appear himselves to hit critical mass...maybe we see him go poof in flash of light. Empirewatch...Ha! Quite a joke.

At least they were wearing CLOTHES this time! :)p

as an austrian, i cannot stand for this talk of antisemitism. what do americans know about antisemitism? who among you has ever really placed any number of jews in an oven? very few, i assure you. american jews do not know what it is to be victims of real antisemitism. americans have not earned the right to use that word. you lack the work ethic to earn it. you lack the ovens and the camps and brown-shirted youth. jews who use it might be better served by saying, "shut up. i do not want to hear it" because really that is what you mean.

i am sorry that my english is maybe not so good. peace for everyone.

as an austrian, i cannot stand for this talk of antisemitism. what do americans know about antisemitism? who among you has ever really placed any number of jews in an oven? very few, i assure you. american jews do not know what it is to be victims of real antisemitism. americans have not earned the right to use that word. you lack the work ethic to earn it. you lack the ovens and the camps and brown-shirted youth. jews who use it might be better served by saying, "shut up. i do not want to hear it" because really that is what you mean.

i am sorry that my english is maybe not so good. peace for everyone.

you know... for a marine, i think you spent to much time shining latrines and licking your sargeant's boots to have really gotten a hold on anything this country might have tried to teach you. that, or you enlisted at a time when they no longer bothered teaching anything apart from "this is my rifle, this is my gun."

son, i think you're doing too much thinking with your rifle and your gun and that there's very little mileage on your brain. you do the service a disservice by taking it's name in vain. i can't believe that you are the future of an institution i put my life in.

you sound like a 12 year old pissant on your mama's new laptop. give it a rest and move on, soldier.

semper-fi

and oh, yeah, Critical Mass was great tonight. It's too bad the cops had to waste our money and their time arresting people.

With all the positive publicity, CM will only get bigger and better.

just kill allthese fucken pigs plant a bomb in cooper union andblow themt he fuck up

I'm not sure I've ever seen a more unintelligent series of posts. I'm sorry that most of you didn't apparently have anything above grammer school where you were raised. Even we stupid Southern Republicans can at least spell, and have more than a six word vocabulary.
I suppose I should define "vocabulary" for you, but I doubt I could get it across to your three brain cells.
Never, never, never have I read more utter stupidity in one place. You guys make DU look like a bunch of scholars.
Nice site...filled with nonsense and fantasy.

Get ready for 4 more years of sanity, like it or not. I hope by the end of the next 4 years, that the muslims have thinned you idiotic people out of America. They have smart bombs...why not program some "smart bombs for stupid people" and we'll let the muslims have em. Then, they can knock off all you three-brain-cell people, and the rest of us can go on enjoying our country.

By the way, at the top of the Declaration of Independence......oh why bother - you can't read that it says " Declaration of Independence anyway. My bad.

Patriot
Conservatives are the only True Americans left - the rest of you are just leftist-marxist-never-worked-yet-utopia-fantasy-dreaming-unemployed-selfish-God~hating-evil~loving FOOLS.


God Bless AMERICA, and help us to live through the current "Age of Stupidity" that the leftists are putting out there.....please leftist commies....move to somewhere worthy of your evil tendencies...like China or Palestine. They'd love you hateful people there....you'd be hero's....just like John"Flipper"Kerry is to the commies.
Anyway, get someone with an IQ above 40 to explain this all to you, and get the kleenex ready for the election. You can all get together for a big ole boo-hoo-hoo when the Greatest President in History WINS AGAIN.


haha

LOSERS...

Oh WHEN will people learn to protest effectively?

looks effective to me
i like the way it's organized - it's sort of ideal. what's ineffective about it?

Oh WHEN will people learn to protest effectively?

Deja Voodoo: You have done SHIT for this country. You are a terrorist. These people in new york have proven to me that they are Americans. They have shown me that they will not stand by and let inocent people get beaten down for being themselves. You have shown me that the only one with no balls is yourself. You hide behind your badge and gun and protection of the state, while the real Americans are out on the street showing us FREEDOM, INDIVIDUALITY, and COURAGE.

You, sir, wouldn't even begin to understand the kind balls it takes to do MY job. And just to give you an idea of why you'd never be able to do it: i believe my "coworkers" as it were need to be pulled from Iraq.

Beautiful photos, thank you for sharing the experience.

Uh... So people who has never been unhuman can't talk about humanity? Damn straight! Keep the good work, crying Paul Joseph!

What a bunch of pencil-necks...

Is it really fun to ride in such a dense crowd of bikers? Looks like it would be awesome if it was less claustrophobic.

I dont get it. Whats your point? Just because American Jews have never been mass murdered doesn't mean we Americans don't know about the Holocaust and what's going on in Europe again now. Do you think Americans can't read history books and newspapers or something? We know that humanity crosses national borders, and we won't let it happen to our Jewish friends here. So what are you talking about?

"Let the world hear the good news that at least one cop won't be making it home tonight alive!"
How desperate do you have to be to have people like Eric Festo in your camp?
I thought liberals = hippies
turns out it was more like
liberals = want to kill policemen
Just goes to show that all that peacetalk was just bullshit. You don't want peace. You just want the other guys dead.
And THAT's real fascist.

target practicetarget practice

When little old ladies in America's heartland see the videos of your communist demontrations they will vote exactly like they did in the 60's......you stupid bastards are real fuck-ups. The good old boys would love some target practice on your sorry asses.

>Conservatives are the only True Americans left -

Well, I guess it's goodbye America then. Time to start over.

>the rest of you are just leftist-marxist-never
>worked-yet-utopia-fantasy-dreaming-unemployed-
>selfish-God~hating-evil~loving FOOLS.

Damn! How can you call people that? That "FOOLS" part really hurts.

>God Bless AMERICA,

I hear that a lot. Is that a prayer or a DEMAND? It has a slightly arrogant ring to it doesn't it? How about "GOD PITY AMERICA!"? Well, that's not nearly as catchy is it? But being a proper, southern, God-fearing, humble Christian and all, what exactly is your problem with the latter?

>and help us to live through the current "Age of
>Stupidity" that the leftists are putting out
>there.....

Don't blame Bush on us.

>please leftist commies....move to somewhere >worthy of your evil tendencies...like China or >Palestine.

Or Oregon, Washington, Alaska, parts of California, Vermont or for that matter BC, Canada. We would love to have you. Let the rest of the country continue to fatten themselves up on their own hypocrisy like pigs, pollute themselves to cancerous deaths and continue to blow up the world based on phoney enemies while we succeed from the union and join the UN in dismantling what's left of the worthless, useless, former USA.

Oh I like the target practice targets. Right wingers themselves are truly the best proof of their own stupidity. That should be on the front page of IndyMedia.org.

They know their friends the police would be all over them if they ever found enough deluded bravery to try anything they regularly spout off about. It's pathetic.

And they call liberals wacko. Right.

Did they ride all the way downtown to the World Trade Center site? No, I guess that's old news in New York City.

from sapin very wel