At the risk of wearing out this thread, let me address a few points. * I'm in favor of using bikies for 'political' speech as in advocacy, as in pushing for legislative changes that help biking, but not for 'political' as in promoting a particular candidate. Unless biking is actually a campaign issue for that candidate, which it almost never is, sadly.
* On the other hand, neither I, nor Mike B., nor Eric W nor BFW, nor anyone else 'speaks for' all bikies. So feel free to offer your own suggestions as to what is appropriate for this list. * Or not. These kinds of discussions are a distraction from more important issues. * If you've got a link to something, you should explain what it is, and why you think its relevant. This is after all a discussion list. Give us something to discuss. And some of us are reluctant to click on things that might be spam, or worse. * my initial reaction to John's posts is that they were simply pro-Obama fliers. W/o seeing the poster, there was no way to know that it had anything to do with biking. For those of you who are wondering, it seems to be promoting a race in Washington DC. (Which isn't at relevant to 'our area', but thats just a quibble). So it turns out this whole business of politial speech is really irrelevant, and we could have avoided all this nonsense if John had simply said,'hey, come to our race!' Anyway, the weather this week has bee really great for biking! -- ===== darin ---- Wolfgang Licht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm confused about this whole thing. How does a poster for a bike race > "not directly relate (to) or promote cycling in any way"? Why is it > not relevant to bikies? If this isn't the place to advertise a bike race, > then where is? And if someone holds a race supporting McCain, or Ron Paul, > or Ralph Nader, I surely won't complain if it's advertised here, you know, > on a list about bikes and bike racing. > > > > > On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 7:19 AM, Ken Livesey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > > > Most everyone on this list would be classified as mature adults able to > > discern between a political community base effort towards improving the > > cycling community and... well, the other stuff. > > > > Keep up the good work John. > > > > > > > > > > ----- Original Message ---- > > From: john earp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: Bikies@danenet.org > > Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2008 7:16:47 PM > > Subject: [Bikies] subject;; free speach,,,, > > > > I wonder if the person whom sees' this site as being non-open to > > political forum, IE, expression.. would like a reminder it has been a > > politically community base effort and movement to bring the current building > > of public bicycle right aways and bike paths to this metropolitan region , I > > can remember the day when the East Isthmus bike path did not exist and there > > was only a gravel fire lane adjacent to the R&R.....you must be fairly new > > here..Hey?? > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Bikies mailing list > > Bikies@danenet.org > > http://www.danenet.org/mailman/listinfo/bikies > > > > _______________________________________________ Bikies mailing list Bikies@danenet.org http://www.danenet.org/mailman/listinfo/bikies
