NY motorcyclist dies on ride protesting helmet law

OFF THE WIRE
I saw this posted on the VMC forum - here's my response to all the judgmental assholes posting about the "irony."  Fuck them!
http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2011/07/03/20110703motorcyclist-dies-helmet-law-protest.html
Who here rides to be safe?  I bet you all have cars and trucks.  We ride to be "free."  To some that means no helmet.
Notice this statement from the article:  "Troopers say Contos hit his brakes and the motorcycle fishtailed. The bike spun out of control, and Contos toppled over the handlebars. He was pronounced dead at a hospital."

1.  It's pure speculation that he would have lived.
2.  Based on the type of fall, there is a great likelihood that he would have snapped his neck and ended up a drooler.

It's also ironic that the State of New York did a study on how helmet laws impacted the State of NY (in the late 60's I believe).  The result:  an astronomical number of people with neck injuries.  This study has been successfully taken away from the internet.  That goes to show that those in control of the data are driven to achieve a certain agenda - to control us.... and you sheeple that are condemning this freedom-fight have swallowed the Koolaid.

Keep wearing your helmet and one day you too may crash and die.  But at least society will have said, "Well, too bad, but at least he wore a helmet."

But if you crash and become a vegetable, I'll be the first one to say, "Poor slob, he shouldn't have worn a helmet, and maybe he would have had a more merciful outcome for him and his family - death vs. a lifetime of quadriplegia. 

From a blog....

Many riders, and they have plenty of examples to point to, believe that many accidents involving motorcycle riders are caused BECAUSE they’re wearing helmets; that the helmet impedes both their vision and their hearing; and that the weight of the helmet, while sufficient to protect against some head injuries, results in even more severe neck injuries in a collision.

So I guess the bottom line on whether or not the government should mandate helmet use comes down to a simple question of what the proper role of government is.  And for direction on this issue, I defer to the late, great President Ronald Reagan, who said the following in a July 1975 interview with Reason magazine:

“I don’t believe in a government that protects us from ourselves. . . . I disagree completely when government says that because of the number of head injuries from accidents with motorcycles that he should be forced to wear a helmet. I happen to think he’s stupid if he rides a motorcycle without a helmet, but that’s one of our sacred rights – to be stupid.”

Case….closed.  Let those who ride, decide.

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Rather than condemning this guy for not wearing a helmet, he should be recognized as one who advocated for liberties to his death.

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