Pedaling for Rights

Well, we made the Kreisfahrt bike demo this year, helping to snarl traffic throughout the inner city by passing nearly all major thoroughfares and shopping avenues, reminding car drivers of the idiocy of attempting to reach such places by individual automobile in the first place. Today they surely learned. And we had ideal weather for the whole thing: sun and 22°. A few photos:

On the way back home, we cycled past the corner where the demo against too much surveillance in Germany was headed shortly after its beginning. As indicated by the absurdly militant equipment and exaggerated numbers of the police there, the government evidenty fears this group a lot. The clowns were good, and even the yuppiest of the German political parties took part in it. And all they want is to be able to read a book or send an email without having the government know the contents. (This concern is, of course, though it shouldn't be, completely foreign to Americans living in the playpen of the bushbaby, even though a revolution or war of independence was conducted there for such reasons.) And two photos: