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Submitted by rgr on Sat, 07/08/2006 - 3:13am.
Like the black and white in a YingYang, I'm Pro-life and Pro-choice at the same time!

Pro-life because I boycott cancer causing *benzene*.
Pro-choice because I chose to ride a super-clean bike instead of a dirty trash heap of metal vehicle.

Americans need to remember about *middle ground*.  True, a mother of five might not be able to do all the errands on a bike (assuming the kids are worthless for help), but there are other times when a mother of five *can* ride a bike instead.

That's a real choice that really exists. You can't hide it under all the situations that appear not to be choices. He hee.

You can't sweep BC under the rug either just because nobody died from it yet. The middle ground there lies somewhere between death and hormone imbalances that can alter many physiological functions in the body like mood and weight. 

There is middle ground between everything. For instance, here I am calling for a bike rally, and I don't even hardly ever ride a bike. I ride a board.  Yet, the police treat skateboarders and bikers differently.  Can't skateboard at the heart of America's symbol of freedom (captiol campus), can't skateboard on the fresh-paved streets. Can't skate in the parking garages when its raining. And why not? Because I'm guilty till proven innocent, cept I'm never even given the chance to be proven innocent because before I can empty my pockets to show that I have no paint and no weapons and no drugs they slap me with a fine for something else other than riding around on a harmless board.

Now I could hold a sk8 rally and get my crew together and we could all go bomb down Harrison, but guess what? We'd each get $400 tickets, that would cost thousands......Bikes on the other hand can get away with it!!!!! Oly LOVE bikes!!!! We give bikes their own friggen lanes!!!!!!!! Skaters get NUTHIN!!!!!

AND that sk8park behind Safeway.......maybe if the city would have NOT run out of cememt so quickly they could have built it like how the blueprints said to build it.  Maybe if the city didn't hate skaters so much they would have built it without cramming it all together so that you could skate it without taking out the slow kids.  But no. City built this tiny, crammed-up pathetic skatepark with no shelter in the hot sun downwind from BK's smoke fumes and then that gave the police the right to mad-fine skaters for skatin at the places where skaters have always skated (captiol campus, parks, waterfronts, ect...).  I know that nothing will change because the city could care less about skaters, but the city seems to worship bikers.  That's our Ace of Spades!

Bike Rally Time. I'll blend-in on my skate. Then I'll get a few more skaters for the next rally, and soon it will be a skate rally and by then the city will be fooled and they won't know what happened till its too late, and the skaters will be unlocked from the prison behind Safeway and we will finally be set free and allowed to skate again!!!!!!

We will rise again!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Go for the skate rally...

I'm sure you're familiar with "critical mass" where bicyclists hold a rally and clog up a major street. There are occasional arrests, but mostly no one gets in trouble.

If you were to do the same with skateboards, you might be give a little more of a rough time... but if no-one is carrying an ID, they can't ticket you, right?  And if you have a big enough rally, they certainly couldn't put you all in jail.

I'd love to see 200 skaters riding up 4th Ave, maybe wearing shirts that say "Not a Criminal".
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Yeah Phil!!!

As far as not carrying ID, well, if the cops feel like being jerks they can always drag you down to the station for a positive ID, and at that point if you gave a fake name you get TWO tickets.....not good on a skater budget working at pizza hut.

If you wanna see 200 skaters ridin down 4th, check out my wedding when I marry the madest hottest flyest skater chick of em all..........till then we operate in the underground stealing shots at the capitol and government parking garages......
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wow, that is heavy

man, I feel ya, and I'm not a sk8r-- so what is the plan, gonna lobby city council for a change?

I think you could make a good case for 'boards in the bike lane (for sure); I'd support that vote!
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I wish I could skateboard -

I wish I could skateboard - it looks like so much fun!! (I tried once and it wasn't pretty!) My husband and I were just commenting last night how it would be nice if some one would think to plant some trees or have some kind of shade for the skate park.
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We should plant more trees

We should plant more trees period.  As for a skate park.......just like everything else under the sun, we already have 'skateparks' scattered all over Olympia if only the darn police would let us skate. We can skate without breaking anything or damaging anything. Let us skate. If we damage something THEN you can charge us with destruction of property, but otherwise give us a CHANCE to friggen ride around!!!!!

My favorite non-designated skatepark is the capitol campus. Now why on earth can't we skate a friggen public center of 'feedom'? Half of its underground so we need no shade their (or cover from the rain) and its all state land so nobody can sue, besides they passed a law that says skaters can't sue because finally finally general accountability has come into mainstream modern society....thank goodness, now lets go one step further and let us skate at the capitol campus for freedom's sake.
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