This is also done
intentionally by the more
confrontational members of
Critical Mass (at least it was in
San Francisco.) The intentional
harassment of some
average joe on his way
home from
work is just not
activism. It puts a really bad spin on all the
good things that
Critical Mass tries to
promote and
polarizes (again, at least in
San Francisco) the
riders against each other. The
local news just loved to represent
Critical Mass as some kind of
rolling riot. This
eventually led to some pretty
sketchy confrontations with the
police.
The moral of this story is not to piss off or attack the people you're trying to reach.
BTW, I hope no one assumes that this is some kind of attack on the write up above. It ain't.