Bike-sharing = UN Comunity???

[jeff_farkas]

Colorado Tea Party candidate Dan Maes: Bike-sharing is a “well-disguised” effort aimed at “converting Denver into a United Nations community.? Climate Progress

Three months ago, Denver Mayor and Colorado gubernatorial candidate John Hickenlooper (D) helped start an ambitious bike share program that has already attracted 14,000 memberships and been a big success. As TP reports, one of Hickenlooper’s opponents in the Governor’s race sees something sinister lurking behind the mayor’s policies:

Republican gubernatorial candidate Dan Maes is warning voters that Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper’s policies, particularly his efforts to boost bike riding, are “converting Denver into a United Nations community.”

“This is all very well-disguised, but it will be exposed,” Maes told about 50 supporters who showed up at a campaign rally last week in Centennial.

Maes said in a later interview that he once thought the mayor’s efforts to promote cycling and other environmental initiatives were harmless and well-meaning. Now he realizes “that’s exactly the attitude they want you to have.”

“This is bigger than it looks like on the surface, and it could threaten our personal freedoms,” Maes said.

Maes, a Tea Party favorite, said that he was referring to “Denver’s membership in the International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives, an international association that promotes sustainable development and has attracted the membership of more than 1,200 communities, 600 of which are in the United States.” Denver has been a member of the group since 1992, 11 years before Hickenlooper became Mayor. Just last week, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood — a former Republican member of Congress — visited Denver, strapped on a helmet to take a bike ride through town, and called the bicycle-sharing program “a model for America.” (HT: Atrios)

 

[coldsteal2]

Denver is Mount Olympus you know

 

[jeff_farkas]

Denver is Mount Olympus you know

 

[PraXis]

 

[KSG_Standard]

Denver is rife with Commies...and hippies.

 

[coldsteal2]

Denver is rife with Commies...and hippies.

Its a strange place, on top of that is also
near the Headquarters of the Identity Movement
(KKK White Pride (Arayan Nations) movement)

 

[RainbowPunk]

It is true that communists were well known for sharing bikes. However, it's worth noting that they only did that because they couldn't afford them.

 

[coldsteal2]

We tried the Free Bikes thing here in Chico a few years ago
it worked great for a few months then bike after bike they
started disapearing.
They all were spray painted Blue so you couldnt miss them.

 

[Lampens]

They did that over here in the 60's white bikes. Although we are a bike riding nation that never worked. Everybody was and is already using each others bikes. (without permission lol)
I can't remember how many of my bikes were stolen.

But nice try to make this into some mel gibson paranoia conspiracy thing. Everything outside of the us is evil right?

 

[The Mick2]

They already tried it in Boulder Colorado years ago and yes all the bikes were stolen my guess is by the John Birch Society