While you are welcome to your mistaken opinions regarding CM, you are just plain wrong about the facts as concerns the bike seizures of CM riders who locked their bikes and walked away from the scene. This took place in September, not August. During August, the seizures were preemptive (took place in the days leading up to the CM and the RNC) but at the pre-RNC CM, the NYPD's tactics were to seal the street at both ends, and catalogus and seize the bicycles of all the cyclists caught up in the nets. So while you can certainly make a case that riders at the Spetember CM were chickensh*ts, the riders at the August ride simply had no opportunity to be chickensh*ts in the way you describe. anecdotally, as on of the cyclists who was arrested at the August CM, most of the cyclists at that event were very much willing to accept the legal consequences and fight aginst the arrests withing the legal system. I didn't meet and haven't since talked to any chickensh*ts from the group of 265 who were arrested, though some of the women arrested were pretty mouthy about the whole thing.

And secondly, again in the spirit of respecting your right to your opinions while correcting your mistaken beliefs concerning the facts, CM is not an organization, and CM has no members. CM is an event. Individual cyclists participate in the event. New York is the exception to the rule in this, in that an organization called time's up (times-up.org) takes it upon itself to include CM among the many cycling events that it promotes and, as is needed, defends. But CM itself is a leaderless event, not a club or a group. This is an important distinction, and I urge you to come to terms with it. It may help you in thinking about why, exactly, you oppose CM if you understand what, exactly, it is.

Best,
Laika