Grievances Day Taking it To The Streets

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Grievances Day
On Friday, April 16, 2010, motorcycle riders around the country will be participating in a national day of presenting grievances to local state, and federal government, wherever laws are written, signed into law, and tried in court, as part of Grievances Day. Grievances Day is always the third Friday of April, and a day to show the government that we are unhappy with the various laws that are in effect, and being considered, around the country. This will be followed by a weekend of organized and unorganized protest rides to courthouses and capitol buildings.
These rides are being organized by motorcycle rights groups, motorcycle clubs, organizations as well as individuals who have just had enough of the government trying to tell them how to live their lives. These rides should not charge any fee.
To be part of this movement, contact your local motorcycle rights organization and ask what they have planned. If they do not have anything planned they may not be what they claim to be.
In areas that have Mandatory Helmet Laws many will choose the option to ride with out helmets or helmets they have made themselves so that they can receive a ticket and take it to court. There is help available in preparing the court cases of those wishing to do that. Getting tickets and going to court ties up the system and is also a step to getting the law overturned.
Are you tired of being stopped at motorcycle only checkpoints or because of what you are wearing by police? What about the motorcycle only noise ordinances or any law that is prejudicial?
Are you tired of being treated like dirt because you ride a motorcycle?
Spread the word through organizations you belong to, your friends and e-mail lists. These grass roots rides and rallies will spread out to communities through out the country and show the government that its citizens are unhappy with it and want it to change. If changes are not made we will make changes of who is in office!
In the 70s this is what motorcyclist did around the country in protest to proposed laws that the Government was attempting to force on them. These laws included the 55 MPH Speed Limit, Mandatory Seat Belt Laws, Mandatory Helmet Laws for Motorcyclist and other laws.
The massive Helmet Law Protests in states made News around the country and eventually ended up with a National Protest in Washington D.C. which lead to hearing the ended the Blackmail Threat By The Government to withhold highway funds to states that did not knuckle under to these threats.
These rides to the state capitals turned out to be some of the best parties anywhere and brought Those Who Ride Together. It did not matter what kind of motorcycle you rode, the size of it or even if you rode at all. It brought clubs and free rides together for a common cause, young and old, people of different color and religions all or the same purpose.
It was a time in this country when motorcycle riders stood together as one and everyone who attended was Proud Of What They were Doing For Freedom.
Grievances Day was selected as the third Friday of every April due to its' proximity to Tax Day and Patriots Day, the day when colonists and redcoats fired the shot heard around the world, which began the American Revolutionary War.
Now is the time for this to happen again. Are you going to be part of the solution? Are you going to say I have had enough and am not going to take it anymore?