Protesters get their bicycles back three weeks after protest

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More than 300 bicyclists were arrested during the demonstrations against the Republican National Convention. While the riders were released within days, many of their bikes have been locked up for three weeks.

On Friday, the Manhattan district attorney's office agreed to let protesters retrieve them from the property clerk in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.

The deal was worked out by Norman Siegel, a civil rights lawyer representing the bicyclists. "I'm pleased the DA's office has arranged to have the bikes released," he said. "To have kept the bikes would've been punitive and legally unnecessary."

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2004/09/19/2003203489

You can get your car back in minutes after it's towed even from a red zone.

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1. You had to get that article from Taipei?

Man our media must be a mess. :shrug:

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2. NY TIMES NEWS SERVICE , NEW YORK wrote it but as you can see it

was only run in Taiwan. So there are some good people left in America but the Media Whore Corporations are controlling what is broadcast in America. Is that Democracy?

It is very very serious. I called a old girlfriend in Ohio to say high. Hadn't talked in a long time. I don't talk politics with old friends. She asked me what I thought about the war. I told her the truth. Then she said "well what about Saddam attacking the World Trade Centers?" I said, "what", you're joking aren't you?" I didn't get into a conversation about where her sources are but she honestly believes these people were not only from Iraq but it was Saddam's plan.