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Because it's patently untrue. The sheep majority in any organisation are always controlled by the vocal minority.
It's not an organisation, it's an event, or series of events. (Does that sheep claim apply to this forum?)
Love the user name by the way, it's perfect for trolling.
It often highlights fools early.
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As there is a Rider Down sub-forum on LFGSS, updated to twitter and with links to news sources, your claim amounts to the fact that no one in critical mass reads LFGSS, Twitter or any mainstream news.
No, I'm claiming that the people now proposing this ride weren't necessarily aware of all those deaths.
"no one in critical mass" - no one is "in" Critical Mass, why is this so hard to understand?
You're being deliberately subversive as it would not have been possible to leave a ghost bike prior to the invention/creation of the concept of a ghost bike. Prior to that people left flowers.
No, I'm making an analogy - the lack of previous ghost bikes wouldn't have justified not leaving the first ghost bike, just as the limited number of rides when cyclists are killed doesn't justify not riding now.
And I can't imagine how you cannot see this as an attempt for a rematch, surely that's the whole point of this discussion?
Because I can imagine that people who weren't on the July CM, or didn't have a terrible experience there could still propose a ride in response. Indeed, I don't have to imagine this, I know it as a fact - as I previously pointed out about the Lea Towpath campaign.
The malevolent force you portray CM as simply has no relation to CM as it is.
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However it should be noted that you didn't quote the rest of that post which answered the question from my perspective immediately after posing the question:
I don't see how that answers my question, you ignore the possibility that people proposing this ride could easily have not been aware of those deaths - you can hardly claim they got as much media attention - or that they did not feel they had any way of organising a collective response.
Every cyclist that was killed before anyone left a ghost bike for them was not unworthy of a ghost bike, were they?
I also can't imagine how you think anyone kettled would aim to "get their own back".
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But can you not answer the very simple question:
Why can this not wait until CM at the end of the month?
Well no, not least because, as I said, I'm not one of the people suggesting it happen on the 10th.
But, I can see that a separate ride might be better than what may well be as a result of the arrests a very large ride.
Is the busiest day of the Paralympics less contentious for the authorities than the tail-end of the Olympics?
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The CM site presents it as a fait accompli.
Which? http://www.criticalmasslondon.org.uk/main.html doesn't mention it as far as I can see.
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This is obviously going to cause a confrontation as you can't reasonably expect the security to be pleased about a major road being blocked next to the site, nor the press entrance/exit to be blocked.
Again, from experience of organising memorial events in contentious circumstances, there is no reason to assume that they will lead to a confrontation.
Several demonstrations following the death of Jean Charles de Menezes took place in extremely tense times security-wise (after 7/7), they blocked several major roads, either by stopping in them or marching along them, the police merely closed adjacent roads to allow this to happen, because they recognised that it was important to let people express their reaction to his death.
You're supposed to clip it to the top tube, like this: