Stop and Frisky?

This past election news cycle Stop and Frisk was the celebrated mantra of the New York City media circus. Though for the previous year the NYPD had reduced by half the citizens inconvenienced by the aggressively interpreted policing policy. Meaning again an election issue wasn't probed other than molding jargon and Stop and Frisk was just poetic sloganeering? 

When stop and frisk was always THE PROBLEM? Whether as a plain simple question of privacy or having a right to have something to hide? I support the police. Given the complexity of the Criminal Enterprise processing System and severity, the last people you want given grief are the police you're in contact with. I'm always cooperative and encourage that attitude. 

However public and police camaraderie is undermined by being put in the position of adversaries. When the law is even required to protect the guilty, authority and individual rights are being compromised by the head-strong acquisition of substantial authenticate-able statistics to afford the police leverage to use search as a preventive enforcement despite the following noble aspiration. 

Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution 

The Fourth Amendment (Amendment IV) to the United States Constitution is the part of the Bill of Rights that prohibits unreasonable searches and seizures and requires any warrant to be judicially sanctioned and supported by probable cause. 

Because the police have the responsibility and authority to have suspicions as this Supreme Court Decision on the Fourth Amendment rules.

Terry vs. Ohio - Wikipedia

Terry v. Ohio, 392 U.S. 1 (1968), was a landmark decision by the United States Supreme Court which held that the Fourth Amendment prohibition on unreasonable searches and seizures is not violated when a police officer stops a suspect on the street and frisks him or her without probable cause to arrest, if the police officer has a reasonable suspicion that the person has committed, is committing, or is about to commit a crime and has a reasonable belief that the person "may be armed and presently dangerous."^[1]

But the crux is what our adversarial society really means? Scapegoating our financially fueled, culturally flawed, Criminal Enterprise System? BS aside, even the purely innocent have confrontational incidents with police because cops have to be tougher than us, not friendlier. That's everyone's fault.

Crime is ambition's depths and controlling it is ambitious. Everyone should be for decriminalization and tackling crime's roots. Common sense should mean police familiar with their neighborhoods have always known and acted on the suspicious. But the issue of Stop and Frisk is a deeper problem than issues of public familiarity or social peace when the nitpicking of the Criminal Industrial Enterprise System just scratches crime's surface and isn't justice. Still, we should all be in awe of the profoundly noble policing profession.

Civility Is Contagious, Dag Gum It
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The revolutionary Hövding AIRBAG helmet for CYCLISTS

Well here's to my having knee-jerk sensitivity to bike prejudice. The webzine Jalopnik reviewed this new product and threw in That Attitude. 

Swedes Develop Invisible Bike Helmet

"Regardless of how wrong they are about discounting cars in the future, they've done a pretty impressive job with the design and engineering of this, and I wish them all sorts of luck."

The issue isn't cars but safety and respect. So for good measure from the other side of the coin the "Throw The Book At Em" crowd finally landed their sarcastic lament as an Editorial Title

Is It O.K. to Kill Cyclists? 

in The New York Times, Nov. 9 
by Daniel Duane of Men's Journal. 

Inspiring November 11th's thoroughly reasonable critical review of the Time's essay's bias by celebrity culture critic, The Bike Snob. 

  Shafted Again @ Bike Snob NYC 

Street Etiquette Soapbox View, Oct 17 Soapbox View/searchbikes

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It's to be appreciated the U.S. Navy & Marines can fulfill our destinies in the Philippines!

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And as a saying goes, kudos to
My Fox Orlando's exposé of the socialist conspiracy fixing bicycles for free (tuition) Monday thru Thursday 1-5 PM at the
University of Central Florida

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Speaking of Russian Art?

 Metro.co.uk Monday, November 11th

Pyotr Pavlensky was arrested after being treated at a clinic (Picture: Reuters)

Artist nails his own testicles to the ground in front of horrified tourists
metro.co.uk A man was arrested after stripping naked and nailing his own testicles to the ground in broad daylight and in full view of tourists at one of the world's most visited landmarks.

According to BBC News, Pavelensky remained nailed to the ground for about an hour and a half before taken into custody.

Facebook Dialogue started by Joe Hurley who shared the picture above and link.

C. M. F. The inevitability of hearing of this from you, Joe Hurley, was at least 98%. I don't want to read about it. But there's just too many unanswered questions to just walk away.

C. M. F. Huh. Balls nailed to the road by the state certainly has meaning for cab drivers.

Joe Hurley Unanswered questions, indeed. Was the nail galvanized?

C. M. F. Looks like one of those deals where once he got started he can't stop. Top this? I think he found his Mt. Everest.

C. M. F. Mr. Hurley, may I have permission to use your name and our thread comments in a Soapbox View. 

Joe Hurley If the reputation of the Soapbox View can withstand the hit, feel free.

Joe Hurley ...Mr. Fraser.

C. M. F. I'm supposed to aim for the extremes of free speech is my excuse. Because my first instinct is not use it so, please have the last word, while I go out on a limb, Mr. Hurley ...

Joe Hurley Well... this guy has hit the nail on the head, when it comes to "the extremes of free speech".

Joanna Hurley Bimonte I would have just left him there.

Masha Gessen
The New York Times

The Soapbox View Satirical Twist pursuing 

Twin Legacies 

Andy Rooney and I.F. Stone?

Russian Opposition Leaders Jailing Assumed To Be Crackdown

May 10, 2012 & November 17 - 23, 2015 Below - ......

  Reuters et al. reports prominent 35 year old Russian opposition leaders, Alexei Navalny and Sergei Udaltsov, were jailed, for 15 days for disobeying a police officer at a peaceful protest on Tuesday against President Putin’s gala Monday inauguration. The Guardian cites the protest duos sentence as a sign the authorities’ patience could be running out as their cases are linked to Sunday’s violence. As The New York Times reported, 40 year old art director, Aleksei Yeryomin, saying, “Up until now, all was peaceful.”

  How necessary was it for everyone’s nerves to escalate?

  Times Moscow Bureau Chief ELLEN BARRY and reporter SOPHIA KISHKOVSKY honestly point to Sunday’s violence starting when a group of radical activists apparently tried breaking through a police column to reach the Kremlin. So now the same new president refuses to face criticism for riot police using batons and pepper spray.

  The Times nailed it. The paper quotes Alexander Rahr, a Russia expert with the German Council on Foreign Relations. “He (President Putin) is caught in the understanding that he is the savior of Russia, that everything depends on him. He sees himself as a historical figure already, a man who prevented the collapse of the country. The problem is, now he has to meet the real demands of people who are 30 years younger than him.” 

  For months the conflict of two Russias has been in the media about how Putin made this prosperous generation possible. But the new president should remember and think about how people became impatient with Gorbachev. That’s why when the Soviet reign ended Yeltsin could replace Mikhail. Otherwise deep down everyone loved Gorbachev and probably didn’t want to let him down. That is why Russia is this far today. Maybe the country survived for him and itself and Vladimir Putin still has to prove his legacy can be bigger than himself too for the Fatherland as he says he believes.

  Which would mean cutting out the crap. Such as his officials continuing to downplay the protests. Putin’s spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, told Russia Today, “I don’t see a link between these incidents and the situation in the country as a whole. What I saw was a bunch of marginal people.”

  So whether you see it now, or not, President Vladimir Putin. Your mandate from this election is to uncorrupt the electoral process. After all a man of your stature doesn’t have to worry much. Your padded Supreme Court could probably give you a free ride through that election too if the results were close.
  But in the meantime with protests, what did John Lennon say Mr. President?

5/10/12

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5/10/12 concluded:

... in the meantime with protests, 
what did John Lennon say Mr. President?

November 17 - 23, 2015
Russian Opposition Leaders Jailing Assumed To Be Crackdown 

random rant 

  Lennon said, "Give peace a chance" that peace never had. All history's fed war. Nourished hostility, explaining war. Generations rebel for nothing else to do. Desperate does what desperate do. While war with hate's only survivor's hate. Moral fabric, no clue? The inhumanity.

President Putin, 

  Left isn't the board being played. It would be insane to think that King wouldn't just lash out indiscriminately. Imagine the tirading Medieval Tyrants chess' evolution parodied? How power's insularity made thrones incessant targets of attack. Hard to believe we've not evolved past that. When apparently, the game's just this. Individual vs. Apparatus.

  Your move, Mr. President. Yes I believe in your help with a better world for more than just friends and influenced people. Why? Because as redundantly repeated. Your legacy, as well as anyone's, is much more critically important than nation-states' reputations already set-in-stone. 

Per Previous Essay

People's legacies are on-the-block, 

Mr. President. Your move. Hollow tradition? Royal authority. Curtain 1.

Removing Curtains Could Fix Façades

Lend A Hand

Dear Presidential Future,

SUITS RULE DOESN'T EXPAND LEGACY

Man. Dude. Geopolitical Chess. 

  Looking trim and in the thick of it, Vladimir Vladimirovich. Don't wait for what happens to your reputation for not making more pragmatic moves. Especially during this time of grand smoke-and-mirrors when your picture with eminent authorities defines your status. Your history written with such broad flowery strokes.

Final Answer?

  Actor as Putin's butler walks into a bar. Orchestrated, but not planned. Nervous laughter becomes deafening until he sits. Then drinking starts again in earnest till the butler screams, "Power's absolutely everyone's" and two orderlies enter taking said patient away as ludicrous idealism has no place here slides down the television screen credits' end. c/o Vocabulary Management. Запас слов Управление 

The Tangled Web's Woven

  When what's really needed is: Humanity Worth Amnesty.

OH, SO SAME OLE NEW SHOW

  Finally a meeting pitching Ed Begley Jr. Moves Next Door. Each month Ed moves into a new home given homeless families after Ed's departs. Ed enlightens neighbors about bicycle life, and how there's so much to gain from safe cycling and trains without auto congestion everywhere. How there's room for everyone. Even safety and Car Culture. Though much spookier now that it's obvious we're in the machines' way.

  Ed starts every episode puttering around the kitchen preparing breakfast. Episode #1 Ed says, "Of course I don't prepare all this myself. I have to get something working union rates." Said to an unseen narrator, embodied by the camera, Ed converses constantly with. He'll answer Ed's wages crack with, "Now don't go all political on us Ed." And Ed will smile and wave a utensil at the screen while the scene dissolves to commercial, but camera remains, as always, incessantly, obsessively focused on Ed. Other actors have to intrude between him and his camera to feel heard. The feeling of invisibility is uncomfortable for everyone, even sympathetic Ed. While the camera/narrator is heard both cracking up and seen bouncing with glee. Ed's wife, Rachelle Carson, has her own narrator, camera, etc. One episode the cameras duel to Dueling Banjos. A knock-off band. Live as the taped show films under the presumption of being alive tracing life. Like Survivor everyone's on Ed's Island. All Begleys have personal camera/narrators. 

  Back from first commercial, Ed's on his bike heading straight over the ground level camera. Bending down to look right into the face of the lens. Ed says, "Let's go." Then he first tours that community's best safe bike lane. Ed goes to one public City Council meeting. Plus whatever captures his curiosity because Ed lives there. Not just visiting for photographs. See the world. Get out of his California cocoon for a while. Do the man good in his un-retiring years and all. Like all agents Ed's is a waiter. But I bet Ed'd go for it. Oprah? Oh? Uh. Meeting's over. On Begley Street exists. And Living with Ed. And, never mind.

  So anyway, Mr. President. Catch the drift's gist? Something like that. Broaden horizons. Make your career more interesting. Not just this sycophantic brazen Chester business. Authoritative chests pushed out to here. The groveling that must go on in mimicking this. It debilitates most countries. Better not be involved? Others responsible? Stalin's style. Except to be more than a celebrity president. A true star. Beyond the manufactured glamorous shine provided by an elitism that's still just as Oblomovianly satisfied with the dirt-poor not belonging. 

Здравствуйте President Putin, 
  Dear Presidential Future. Has a nice sound, no? Legacy. Winners mold history is entirely true. And cock and bull's entirely believed, true too. So where does that leave your standing? Ramrod straight ambivalence. Proud, yes. But boo! Oblomov believed in himself too. While there's much, much, more for you to do. As my mother often admonished, Mr. President. Don't Just Sit On Your Laurels. 

END THE CRIMINAL ENTERPRISE SYSTEM

  Sir. Сэр. Don't just be another Chester, please. Because despite this being our world, it's not the crowd any of us belong in. 

Previous added essay November 2 - 16, 2015 

Tis The Political Season Of “THE AMERICAN PEOPLE”.   

For some thinking different's jarred the most.

Street Etiquette?

Isn't Ethical Enough?

Because after all politeness is just a myth? Especially since history's worst tyrants manage fairly well among their peers. Stalin is documented having all his nation's love. So? What's most rude is usually done politely. Generally everyone's facts of life discovery. What new facade comes next? No? Good. You must be a satisfied individual.

But life is cruel and some things aren't meant to become accustomed to such as it's not a myth bicyclists have a rude reputation. 

Fearless spreading fear irresponsibly? Come by in a sense from an arrogance some cyclists feel from years of anonymous riding however anyone wanted with rare interference from anywhere. 

Now bicycles, cars and pedestrians happen to be everywhere. So many more bicyclists enthralled by actually how fast they go. And the exhilaration one doesn't outgrow. But please just be really polite on the road for God's sake! 

A 

Soapbox View 

Illustration of the Outsized Misunderstanding Between Civilians and Bicycles

Starring Dorothy Rabinowitz

A corrosive tale of elitist indifference to underclass empowerment. Editorial Executive Rabinowitz gives an outstanding performance of latter age imperial integrity engaging the Metropolitan Media in toying with the smudged lines between popularity and cultural flaws. When it is simply tragic riders sacrificing for a better world are brought down by delinquents flagrantly flipping off the uninitiated. Hardly necessary when, as smart as humanity claims to be, the next step should be home free. <Safety> Drive safely, everyone, please?

gothamist Plaza Demands Removal

So it's cute The Plaza Hotel filed suit to ban CitiBikes Parking in front of the hotel. I so wish there were some defense I'd represent on behalf of the Plaza, but I can't. Compared to other inconvenient location disagreements, across the street from the hotel is less intrusive. Safer than either 59th or 60th streets and especially Fifth Avenue. 

To be fare. Fair? All vehicles should not be allowed access to the vicinity of the Plaza. No Automobile Parking. Nada. How unnaturally absurd that sounds reflects how much the automobile is taken for granted and unnecessarily elitist. I'm glad automobiles advertise on Soapbox View. But this legal dispute is the Plaza seeing what leverage this gains in return for losing this street furniture publicity. Because as far as celebrity prestige goes, theoretically many hotel guests are from countries where cycling isn't disauthenticated by a lazy quaint American elitism that through all the bluff and blubber doesn't portray real respect beyond scapegoating competitive patriotism. Allah Bless America & Bicycle Activism

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The New York Times
Beautiful Presentation

The Russia Left Behind

A journey through a heartland on the slow road to ruin.

By ELLEN BARRY

Photographs by DMITRY KOSTYUKOV for The New York Times; Video by BEN C. SOLOMON

Produced by MIKE BOSTOCK, SHAN CARTER and LESLYE DAVIS
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Facing Reality Is Questioning Answers? 

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Is Gossip News or News Gossip?

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Would Healthcare Going Down Like Alcohol Prohibition Demonstrate As Much Guts?

Are You Celebritized?

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Imagine the worthwhile details of the Medical Industrial Enterprise System?

The Fleet of Bikers Changing Health Care in Africa A former motorcycle racer – and now Woman of the Year - is Revolutionising Medical Provision Across The Continent

The Independent profile of Barclay's Women of the Year Award winner Andrea Coleman who I met with her husband Barry through our common friend of financial guru, motorcyclist Malcolm Forbes.

Riders For Health

Give Every Health Worker In Africa A Bike CNN By Andrea Coleman and Barry Coleman 12/15/2013