[dc-critmass-list] Of interest from TomPaine.com

[NShia at aol.com]

CRITICAL MASSERS:

Ride tomorrow -- first Friday every month.  

Did you  read about what happened in Buffalo at Critical Mass?  Not unlike 
what happened to some of us during the combat war time earlier this year.  Be 
prepared.  Bring video cameras. Digital cameras.  Pens and note paper; in case 
the police or any other person tries to attack us in any way.  
And now they want to label environmentalists as terrorists?  What kinda bs is 
next?

A political analysis looking at it from the bright side:
>From the looks of it  yesterday and today in Congress, the left is putting up 
a valiant fight against the direction the administration is trying to take us 
in viewing the environment, the war, and reality.
I've never seen democrats fight as hard, for real.  Ashcroft faced stiff 
questioning in Congress today.  and the FCC commissioners faced stiff questioning 
yesterday in John McCain's Commerce committee of the Senate.  Of course 
Ashcroft"s and the FCC's  answers were unsatisfactory, but at least they weren't 
given a complete pass.  The black congress people  were especially probing in 
their questions of Ashcroft.  Through  his attempts to be dismissive, you could 
tell Ashcroft was lying, squirming,  and smirking.  
So, if we have to fight the power, we'll fight the power, but let's hope for 
a beautiful peaceful spring ride with weather as great as it was today.

Peace&Love,
Nancy