Re: New York's Crackdown on Ebikes

On 5/30/2025 5:36 PM, AMuzi wrote:

On 5/30/2025 1:43 PM, Zen Cycle wrote:

On 5/30/2025 12:28 PM, AMuzi wrote:

On 5/30/2025 11:07 AM, Catrike Ryder wrote:

On Fri, 30 May 2025 10:41:51 -0400, Zen Cycle <funkmaster@hotmail.com>
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On 5/30/2025 9:16 AM, Rolf Mantel wrote:

Am 30.05.2025 um 14:36 schrieb Catrike Ryder:

On Fri, 30 May 2025 08:25:26 -0400, Zen Cycle <funkmaster@hotmail.com>
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On 5/26/2025 10:59 AM, Frank Krygowski wrote:

On 5/26/2025 8:38 AM, AMuzi wrote:

On 5/26/2025 4:16 AM, Catrike Ryder wrote:

On Sun, 25 May 2025 21:36:00 -0400, Frank Krygowski
<frkrygow@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
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New York Times article on police cracking down on ebike traffic
violations. Let's see if this will get people past the paywall:
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https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/24/nyregion/ ebikes-scooters-
cyclists- nyc.html?
unlocked_article_code=1.KE8.voH2.AOcHv0jrnp79&smid=url-share

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“This is a direct attack on immigrant workers,” Ms. Guallpa said.
“The
intent is to criminalize workers and to create a situation where our
communities could be targets for deportation.”
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Typical NYT woke nonsense...
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-- C'est bon
Soloman

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+1 with the typical misdirection and conflation.
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Legal Resident Aliens (taxpaying, working people who cannot vote) are
ignored, along with US citizens. Criminal illegal aliens who, by
Statute, cannot work and who are subject to summary deportation by the
same Statutes, are where her sympathies lie.

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Damn. The right wing of this newsgroup is always on hair trigger!
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The article contains over 2000 words. Of those, only about three
paragraphs mention immigrant delivery workers. The rest deals with the
disparity between ebike and car enforcement policies, noting that cars
kill far, far more pedestrians. It doesn't even mention that NYC
life is
totally dominated by the negative effects of car traffic. Yet people
are
enraged about the comparatively minuscule effects of ebikes, and ebike
riders are in some ways being treated more harshly than car drivers.
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Look, I think ebike riders should ride legally. I think U.S. ebikes are
too fast, and/or should be legally treated more like motorcycles -
meaning integrated into traffic and kept off bike paths.
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But you guys ignore all that, blinded by the brief mention of
immigrants. You never fail to respond to right wing dog whistles, even
if  you have to blow the whistle yourself.

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Braindead magatards like the floriduh dumbass will consistently look for
a political scapegoat for any issue they have based their ignorant
opinions on, as is shown by his parroting of magatard groupthink
nonsense.
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Andrew isn't as bad as most but even he more recently is allowing
himself to get sucked into the magatard groupthink propaganda - there is
no evidence in that article to support "Criminal illegal aliens....are
where her sympathies lie."

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Since deportation only applies to people in the USA illegally, her
statement absolutely indicates her sympathies are with the illegals.

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Deportation applies to people "presumed illegal" by the administration,
not only to people legally determined illegal.
Sadly the current admisitration has declared people illegal and
attempted to deport without due process.

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+1, There have already been several well documented detentions and
attempted deportations of _legal_ immigrants.
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Mistakes were made. All were quickly corrected.
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-- C'est bon
Soloman

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Compare with some 20 million errors in the other direction in the past four years.
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Oh, great, now you're on board with 'The Great Replacement' theory.
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Interesting that an admitted atheist would be supportive of blatantly white christian nationalist fascism. Gee Andrew, who's going to be there when they come for you?
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 I have no idea what you're raving about.

yes you do, you're just unwilling to admit it.

 Go find a blatant white Christian nationalist fascist who's expounding some 'replacement theory' and give her a piece of your mind.

Just for everyone else's edification who might be ignorant:
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-twisted-logic-behind-the-rights-great-replacement-arguments/
Don't try to feign ignorance Andrew, you're far too well-read and aware for me to buy that bullshit.

 Even SCOTUS agrees that open borders as fiat policy is unlawful:
 https://apnews.com/article/trump-supreme-court-immigration- deportation-8bc46820c6444fbb3540c09764e32905

WTF? Are you taking kunich lessons now? You changed the subject then posted a link which doesn't support your claim.
1) we weren't discussing open borders, we were discussing due process for deportation of illegal immigrants.
2) your website doesn't address open borders, it addresses revoking _legal_ status for asylum seekers. The first sentence states:
"The Supreme Court on Friday again cleared the way for the Trump administration to strip temporary legal protections from hundreds of thousands of immigrants".
Regardless of your attempted distraction, the premise floated in this forum by the floriduh dumbass that illegal aliens have no due process protection is flat out wrong.
https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution-conan/amendment-5/removal-of-aliens-who-have-entered-the-united-states
"Despite the government’s broad power over immigration, the Supreme Court has recognized that aliens who have physically entered the United States generally come under the protective scope of the Due Process Clause, which applies “to all ‘persons’ within the United States, including aliens, whether their presence here is lawful, unlawful, temporary, or permanent.”"