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Bikes Against Bush Creator Busted
An anonymous reader writes "Joshua Kinberg, creator of Bikes Against Bush, was arrested in NYC for vandalism while being interviewed by MSNBC. Kinberg's website describes his project as 'using a Wireless Internet-enabled bicycle outfitted with a custom-designed printing device, the Bikes Against Bush bicycle can print text messages sent from web users directly onto the streets of Manhattan in water-soluble chalk". Both Wired and Popular Science have done stories on Kinberg's work." Update: 08/30 01:30 GMT by J : Mr. Kinberg has been released; he describes his arrest and brief stay behind bars on this MSNBC blog.
I can foresee the EFF possibly getting into this..Something smells fishy and it isn't my upperlip...I find it highly surprising that he wasn't told what he was charged with, was he even read his miranda rights?
TedCheshireAcad writes:
... Oh crap, you're a Christian fundamentalist, aren't you?
"Here comes the logic. I can't stand everyone who is 'anti-Bush'. Why don't you devote your efforts to being pro-Kerry? I ask you, who do you think should be president, and you say, "Not Bush!". Well, Jerry Falwell is not Bush. Saddam Hussein is not Bush."
Hoo boy. This is you just being hyper-literal. CLEARLY it isn't meant that they'll take anyone whatsoever. What is meant is that if they can find a person who is (a) willing and (b) not a complete fsck-up then yeah, better than Bush.
Do you read *everything* literally?
*sigh
My
Limekiller
It never fails to stupify me at all the really lame, stupid, pointless, and all-around "I'm-a-bitter-lefty-protestor-with-too-much-time-o n-my-minds" tactics lameasses like this come up with. About as stupid as Al Franken's "yell-out" during George Bush's appearance at the RNC.
John Kerry is a Joke!
Really, the rationale I've seen is very close to that of spammers:
- Cheap mass-delivery method
- Excuses that "it's easy to wash off" sound a lot like "it's easy to hit delete"
- Assumption that everyone's interest or need to see what they have to say surpasses the inconvenience of those who have to clean up after them
- Not being content with letting people interested in finding them. Must go out and force people to see what they have to say.
- Likely to develop into an arms race of self-important corporate and political interests, if this isn't determined to be illegal
Smells like spamming to me. We of all people should see where this is headed and seek to stop it as soon as possible.Why are you letting these clowns ruin our country?
Instead of bitching about how Bush hasn't made any jobs, he ought to take some of those brains of his and start selling his inventions. That will do more good for the economy than any stupid protest will.
This is my sig.
Dozens of Americans were killed in Bosnia
As opposed to hundreds in Afghanistan/Iraq?
and what do we have to show for it? The Europeon countries for whom we took this action -- shed this blood, sacrificed a Cabinet Secretary -- have proven they will not reciprocate. We cannot build or use military facilities in Bosnia.
As the other poster said, wtf are you talking about here? We have to set up military bases in countries that are freed? And half the reason (our blank-check support for Israel being the other half) Arabs are pissed as us is because we have military bases on their "holy land".
We have nothing to show for our work in Bosnia. We are left with the conclusion that President Clinton's actions were simply to distract from his dishonorable domestic conduct.
The only "dishonorable domestic conduct" at the time was from Republicans in Congress who wanted to get rid of Clinton for a reason, any reason. And when they couldn't find any legal reason to remove him, they tried entrapment by asking questions that were noneoftheirfuckingbusiness.
And you people are fucking amazing. Clinton was trying to "distract the country" whenever he used the military, but at the same time its his fault that he didn't stomp out Al Queda when he was in office. You try to have it both ways at the same time, you suckers of Satan's cock.
have created an ally in the middle of the Middle East.
Um, our only real ally is Israel. Iraq is hardly an ally, as their, and other Arab's, distrust of us is at an all time high.
We have a great big unsinkable aircraft carrier. We have a California-size staging area for further pacifications.
Okay, are you English or retarded? Or maybe you're just trolling...
or the Salman Pak training camp.
Debunked debunked debunked. If there was an actual, reputable tie between international terrorism and Saddam, Team Bush would have been signing about it at the top of their lungs. The fact that they haven't is proof that their isn't any available, fucktard.
If you want a President who kicks ass, vote Republican.
Uh huh. The simple fact is that Democrats have a far better record on war than Republicans do. World War I? Woodrow Wilson, Democrat. World War II? Roosevelt and Truman, Democrats. Korean War? Truman again. Cuban missle crisis? Kennedy, Democrat. Vietnam? Nixon, R, and Johnson, Democrat.
The fact is that every single major war or conflict that America has been in this century have been handled by Democratic presidents, and handled well, with the exception of Vietnam. But then if you're looking for "kickass presidents" then the questionable reasons for sending troops there wont bother you any more than the questionable reasons for invading Iraq today. Reagan doesn't even get an honorable mention, because the most he did was bomb some huts in Grenada. Gulf War I doesn't count as a "major war or crisis" because the Iraqi military was at least 20 years behind us and the kill ratio was something on the order of 1,000 to 1. Note that I'm also not including the successful Kosovo operation under Clinton, either.
I'll say again: Democrats have a much better record when it comes to war than Republicans do. Anything else is a neocon cock gobbling fantasy.
If you want a President who kisses ass, vote Democrat.
Right, Clinton totally kissed the asses of the Chinese government after our spy plane crashed and they were holding the crew hostage until they got an apology. Oh no wait a minute! That was Bush that kissed their asses!
If you want a President who is an ass, vote Green.
For once I agree with you.
So I can come over to your house and chalk up your driveway
That would be on private property, moron, this guy was on public.
and pro child pr0n messages
That's not what he was doing, moron.
Yea for the right to deface property!
Its not defacing property if it's a harmless message and washes off in 30 seconds of water, moron.
If he had written a pro bush message he would not have been arrested. That's the key here.
evil is as evil does
Most of the protesters were white. The NY police dept is not known for shooting wildly at white people.
evil is as evil does
"The top 25% of taxpayers pay 83% [ntu.org] of the taxes. "
Holy shit. The top 25% of the taxpayers in this country control virtually 99% of the wealth and yet they only pay 83% of the taxes.
Nice...
evil is as evil does
Actually the Pro-Bush brigade were very active during the Dems convention.
They control the Mass Media you see..
They just vandalize the information space, rather than the sidewalk, and their nazi'ism is not water soluable.
"Oops, I always forget the purpose of competition is to divide people into winners and losers." - Hobbes