With illegal apprehensions left and right it only takes a small while for some noble souls to stand up and fight for what's simply right. I've heard before that the government is there for the good of the people, and that laws were made to protect its citizens. But now more and more stupid people are finding their way into prime seats in high places and passing out laws destined for the trash bin. The last episode found a few hundred bikers communing over at the MMDA office in EDSA to stand against the plate number on helmet proposal. But I believe this certain predicament calls for a more mature approach - via the same law that is being applied. The new anti-modification law has more holes than a large sized mosquito net, something that some of us who know the law can exploit as a way to trash the said proposal permanently. (As we speak some turds are already abusing the largely gray law - that wasn't by the way passed by coordinating with the affected public and parties..)
Posted over at motorcyclephilippines.com:
A Call For A Motorcycle Rights Organization
(Group Name) is a motorcyclists’ rights organization dedicated to preserving individual liberties and biker rights. (Group Name) works to increase motorcycle awareness among motorists. (Group Name) works to educate concerned citizens how to effectively impact the legislative process. (Group Name) encourages bikers to become politically active in their communities.
As an individual, you can help by joining (Group Name) and actively lobbying your elected officials in the ongoing struggle against legislation that would rob you of motorcycle and individual freedom in the Philippines.
(Group Name) is non-partisan and welcomes all riders and friends of liberty and freedom.
By joining (Group Name), you can be part of a grassroots biker political power that has come together to oppose anti-motorcycling legislation and to promote the implementation of programs that will help preserve motorcycling and our lifestyle.
Then we will put in an application for members who will commit to this cause.
Not that this is being promoted already by MCPF and MCP, but memberships shall comprise of a group to group basis as well as individual memberships.
After a core group has been activated and registered with the SEC, our first role will be to find as much info as we can to prepare a TRO against the AO that was recently released by the LTO on motorcycle modifications. Our next agenda is to get each club and organization to sign up and assign a representative who will participate in meetings and information dissemination about our progress.
We will also use this group to start with re-educating our riders about their motorcycles and teaching them the basic laws for all motorists.
We will also serve as a general populous geared up to eliminate corruption on the government offices and on the streets by reporting and taking photographic evidence of illegal activities such as "kotong" or "lagay".
Finally, we will seek the support and sponsorship from freedom rights groups, political figures, tv, radio and print corporations who can contribute to our cause. We will also try to get manufacturers and motorcycle businesses involved by showing them how injustices and anti-motorcycle legislatives can affect them and their businesses.
As far as the first meeting is concerned, I would like to start this asap and I was thinking of gathering the first group this week for a small get together to gather contact information for each and to talk about the first issue in our agenda which is the "modifications" rule as indicated on the AO released recently.
Any feedback and input will be greatly appreciated and I would also like to invite all interested parties to get involved starting with the clubs and organizations around Manila and it's neighboring cities and provinces.
I would also like to call on jdfvrooom on this so he can share with us his plan to set up the unified motorcycle congress.
Also, I would like to call on Don_pangan to en light us further on their plans for the motorcade and the group he's representing.
Let us join our hands and fight for our rights.
Thank you!
You may contact me via email: gmtrueno@yahoo.com
Cellfone: 09152941987
For a background course on the issue hop on over to bikerpinoy.blogspot.com
