We're watching you, Mr Smith. Protest 27th June 2010

[jamfig]

where are we starting from "WESTGATE" for westies what time when are we leaving anyone going or is this so secret that not only ACC/GOVERNMENT dont know but someone forgot to tell those who wanna protest too ???????????????????????????????????????????????? clocks ticking someone wanna enlighten us all or shall we just do something else

[Ixion]

BRONZ hasn't organised anything for outlying points. Meeting place is Viaduct / Queens wharf. If people want to gather at Westgate and ride together thats fine, but over to them to meet up.

[Captian soup]

10am for westgate is what i have been told by a couple of seniors....mind u u cant trust these ol ppl... always up to somthing... HAHAHHA jokes.

Il be there and im too ugly for balaklavas, takes the shock factor away.

[Fatt Max]

Il be there and im too ugly for balaklavas, takes the shock factor away.

I dont have a balaclava. Mind you, I will wear my Bra-laclava to show off my ample flabby beer tits, that will frighten the crapola out of anyone....

[Phreak]

I dont have a balaclava. Mind you, I will wear my Bra-laclava to show off my ample flabby beer tits, that will frighten the crapola out of anyone....

Haha not sure if I wanna come now! Kidding, I'll be there. Interested just to see what will happen.........

[Phreak]

I dont have a balaclava. Mind you, I will wear my Bra-laclava to show off my ample flabby beer tits, that will frighten the crapola out of anyone....

Haha not sure if I wanna come now! Kidding, I'll be there. Interested just to see what will happen.........

[Pixie]

None of the cake shops in Bugtussle are open on Sunday,so I'll be out of luck.



Explain to me again why we need baklava?

[Ixion]

So that we can have our cake and eat it too, of course. Who's bringing the cucumber sandwiches?

[NONONO]

After being there this morning, I gots to ask....WTF???????????

[bogan]

after not being there this morn, I gots to ask, how did it go?

[riffer]

After being there this morning, I gots to ask....WTF???????????

after not being there this morn, I gots to ask, how did it go?

All right guys, what happened? :|

[bogan]

All right guys, what happened? :|

maybe they're all in the cells? or at the pub, my money is on the later!

[jade911]

there was like only 100ish bikes and no news crews, quite a dissapointing turnout

[Fatt Max]

Well, about, I donno, 60-70 bikes maybe turned up. I was in the cage and had mini Max with me. We gathered in the card park next to the ferry building, Les and a few of the BRONZ guys got up, said a few words, wanted to know from us what we wanted in the way of protest action. A petition was passed around inviting you to say what action you preferred. Then we got some postcards to send to Nick Smith and bought some stickers.

Then, a manequin dummy with Nick Smiths head on it was brought in on the back of a very nice bike, it was dumped in a 40 gallon drum of sheep shit and an oversized rego sticker stuck up it's arse while we shouted 'Get your ACC and jam it up your ARSE'.

And that was it.

Credit where it is due, BRONZ did try to rally support and get feedback from the crowd as to what action they wanted. Brave and ballsy IMHO. They invited anyone with questions or concerns to raise them, again ballsy.

I suppose the feeling I did get from talking to a few of the guys is that this particular gathering was not publicised as well as maybe it could or should have been. There was a lot of slagging going on and that did taint us all as being divided, which is not really where any of us want to be.

How do we fix that? Jeez I dunno, wish there was a simple enough answer but if we are a divided community then it plays into the hands of those we are trying to lobby and change.

As I said, credit where it is due, BRONZ did have a crack at rarking everyone up but the turnout was not spectacular, so not too much could be achieved.

Mind you, the lovely lady flogging the stickers did say (and I have heard MANY bikers say this) we must keep getting the word out.

Thats my take on it. Mini Max loved being among the bikes and the riders.

Oh, and I never went to the pub, honest.....

[Phreak]

Not the best protest I've been to, but nice to be out among other bikers again. The guys with the mannequin thing took off too early for anyone to follow...

Still, I reckon it was better than doing nothing. Bring on the next one guys!

(I'll be posting off my postcard to Mr Smith first thing tomorrow morning. Wonder if he'll reply...?)