Originally Posted by
666pack
cops are obviously more friendly and amicable with cars and car drivers than they're going to be with a bunch of people on bikes. cars propagate their way of life, dependence on fossil fuels and the current state of events. as previously pointed out, bicyclists are a dangerous group as far as underminding their idealogy, on the whole we tend to be young, open-minded, intelligent and for the most part liberal. i'm not surprised at all that the police are going along on your ride, large assemblies of "dangerous" people are a threat to cops' authority.
In all honesty, cops don't give a flying **** about maintaining dependence on fossil fuels. Nor do they really care much about young, open-minded, intelligent people. The event got so big that they started to perceive it as a demonstration, and a possible threat to public safety. Trust me, they don't give a **** about your message, they're just worried about a large organized group and they're treating the cyclists as they would any march through the city.
I'm still for making the ride impossible to monitor, but there is no reason to pretend that cops are some kind of evil enforcement arm for big oil.