If there was any doubt about the willingness of people to shoot bicyclists and the reason why it should not be suggested (even in humor), you can eliminate that doubt by doing a search for "bicyclist shot":
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22bicyclist+shot%22 which returns about 12,900 hits. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2007 8:34 AM To: Eric Westhagen; BikiesSubmissions Subject: Re: [Bikies] Watching Paul Soglin's -Rapping Eric, You are being overly broad in conflating 'the left' with 'winter bicyclists'. This isn't a left vs. right issue. His comments were neither funny nor harmless. Even in allegedly bike-friendly Madison, there is a great deal of hostility directed against bicyclists, and his inflammatory rhetoric only fuels that hostility. I have it on good authority that Soglin was advised against it, but he went and did it anyway. It was not a 'casual' remark. Soglin has been around the block a few times, so I have to believe he knew what he was doing - being provocative just get attention. And even after getting a lot of angry comments, he is unrepentant. "Some people have no sense of humor, " he is quoted as saying. Promoting vigilante actions, even facetiously, is not funny. -- ===== darin _______________________________________________ Bikies mailing list [email protected] http://www.danenet.org/mailman/listinfo/bikies
