FIGHT BACK! FIGHT NOW! MAKE THE MEDIA TELL THE TRUTH ABOUT MOTORCYCLING ISSUES!

Do you ride a motorcycle today? Do you want to ride a motorcycle tomorrow?

If so, then please recognize that the time for ALL of us--including YOU--to start defending our Right-to-Ride is NOW!

For starters, we--including YOU--have got to stop letting incompetent and ill-intentioned journalists publishing erroneous media reports that misguide the masses on motorcycling issues! From now on, whenever YOU see any media source publishing articles that contain incorrect information, half-truths or outright lies about motorcycling issues, we need YOU to do something about it. And I don't mean just go post to a forum, preach to the choir, or bitch at the bar. I mean DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT: Get on your bikes, and line up in their lobbies... Get out pen and paper, and overwhelm their office staff... Get on the phone, and fill up their voicemail... Or at least, get on your keyboard and clog up their inboxes:

http://tinyurl.com/3cc7jn

PLEASE START NOW. Please start by following my lead in demanding a retraction of the absurb comments made in the article linked below. This email tells you WHO to contact and WHY. As for WHAT to say, feel free to repeat my words or use your own. THE ISSUE HERE IS *NOT* THE UTILITY OF HELMETS. AND THE ISSUE IS NOW *MORE* THAN JUST THE FUTILITY OF HELMET LAWS:

http://tinyurl.com/3dsff2

If YOU let them take *your* RIGHT TO DECIDE today, they'll be one step closer to taking *your* RIGHT TO RIDE tomorrow!

FIGHT BACK! FIGHT NOW! MAKE THE MEDIA TELL THE TRUTH ABOUT MOTORCYCLING ISSUES:

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-----Original Message-----
From: Bruce Arnold [mailto:Bruce@LdrLongDistanceRider.com]
Sent: Sunday, April 22, 2007 7:29 AM
To: 'newsroom@islandpacket.com'; 'islandpacket@medillnewsdc.com'; 'letters@islandpacket.com'; 'contact@mcclatchy.com'; 'ptira@mcclatchy.com'; 'news@mctinfoservices.com'; 'pressrelease@mctinfoservices.com'
Subject: I Demand A Correction or Retraction

Emailed to:

islandpacket@medillnewsdc.com
newsroom@islandpacket.com
letters@islandpacket.com
news@mctinfoservices.com
pressrelease@mctinfoservices.com
contact@mcclatchy.com
ptira@mcclatchy.com

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To the Editor of IslandPacket.com regarding this article...

Congress focuses on traffic fatalities
By TORY DUNNAN
McClatchy Tribune News Service
Published Saturday, April 21, 2007
http://www.islandpacket.com/news/local/story/6476748p-5768098c.html

...wherein you state:

"Witnesses told senators there are several possible ways to reduce crashes -- stricter drunken driving rules, tougher seat belt laws, motorcycle helmet mandates and truck regulations."

In short, you or somebody is claiming "motorcycle helmet mandates...reduce crashes".

That is absolutely ridiculous. How in God's name can either helmets or helmet laws reduce crashes?!?

LIDS YES ... LID LAWS NO!
http://tinyurl.com/2fh442

Mandatory helmet laws are discriminatorily unconstitutional in that--by mandating helmets for motorcyclists as opposed to ALL motorists--they violate the "equal protection" guaranteed by the 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution. HELMETS CANNOT PREVENT CRASHES, and all mandatory motorcycle helmet laws do is make negligent, care-less, distracted and impaired motorists feel less guilty about maiming and killing motorcycle riders.

I am sick and tired of incompetent and/or ill-intentioned journalists publishing erroneous media reports that misguide the masses on motorcycling issues! I demand that you AND Tory Dunnan AND McClatchy Tribune News Service AND McClatchy Company either (a) provide me with a reference to an official transcript containing the identity of whoever might have made this misstatement before Congress, and (b) issue an immediate correction or retraction.

Bruce Arnold

Bruce@LdrLongDistanceRider.com
Author and Publisher, LdrLongDistanceRider.com
Co-Moderator, Bruce-n-Ray's Biker Forum
Premier Member, Iron Butt Association
Sustaining Member, Motorcycle Riders Foundation
Member and Elite Legislative Supporter, American Motorcyclist Association