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From: Zen Cycle <funkmaster@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: New York's Crackdown on Ebikes
Date: Fri, 30 May 2025 10:41:51 -0400
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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>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> 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:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> New York Times article on police cracking down on ebike traffic
>>>>>>> violations. Let's see if this will get people past the paywall:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/24/nyregion/ebikes-scooters-
>>>>>>> cyclists- nyc.html?
>>>>>>> unlocked_article_code=1.KE8.voH2.AOcHv0jrnp79&smid=url-share
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> “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.”
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Typical NYT woke nonsense...
>>>>>>
>>>>>> -- 
>>>>>> C'est bon
>>>>>> Soloman
>>>>>
>>>>> +1 with the typical misdirection and conflation.
>>>>>
>>>>> 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.
>>>>
>>>> Damn. The right wing of this newsgroup is always on hair trigger!
>>>>
>>>> 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.
>>>>
>>>> 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.
>>>>
>>>> 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.
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> 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."
>>
>> Since deportation only applies to people in the USA illegally, her
>> statement absolutely indicates her sympathies are with the illegals.
> 
> 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.

+1, There have already been several well documented detentions and 
attempted deportations of _legal_ immigrants.