Austin, TX City Council Public Hearing, 8/24/06 (video)

Comments

[Listener #7170]

Freakin' A, Goddamn right!!!!! My personal freedom does not need government control. This could potentially turn into a screed about our lost freedoms and the role of government in our lives, but I will not go there. Kudo's to the freedom loving woman!!!!!! Guts and character, the foundation of America. davek

[Peteski]

"There is no helmet law for adults in Austin.
in 2006: The Council briefly considered bringing back the all-ages law, but ultimately took no action."

[Oran Kelley]

If you love your freedom to take risks so much, simply forgo all public assistance if things go wrong--risk-takers unite, form your own insurance companies to pay for all emergency response and medical costs stemming from your risk taking. So long as you are not a single penny into my pocket, you are free to do as you will. BUT if you want to take risks I don't approve of and then get resucued and treated on my dime. Then die or wear a goddamned helmet you sissy.

[Jim]

Hey, don't call my Mom a sissy! She'd forgotten her medication.

[K.]

Caution: Darwin at work.

[krebstar]

Forgive the platitude, but only in America.
Really.

[Jonathan Steinke]

Of course, you DO know I only posted this because she tore into song, don't you?

[Jonathan Steinke]

Of course, you DO know I only posted this because she tore into song, don't you?

[Jim]

I figured it was her rambling, incoherent introduction. The song's a nice touch, though.

[blakepopular]

yeah she has balls
but maybe that fall in 85(without a helmet) took her common sense away

great vid

that lady is a trainwreck

[William Zeuthen]

Bike helmets and terrorists are the same. You should never let fear win.

[jmb]

Those songs sound like the songs my girlfriend sings to the cats in the morning about things like getting fed and birds outside.

[Brian C.]

She reminds me of Mo Tucker.
Sorry, Mo.

[bartelby]

I've never been to a city council meeting that did not have a display of this caliber.

[Mark in Helsinki]

I think the fact that this happened in Texas and she was not immediately escorted out of the room by burly Texas Rangers say a lot about how democracy still works, if oddly, in the US.

And I concur with bartelby's comment that this sort of patriotism-chutzpah (perhaps sans "dittys") happens in city council and town hall meetings every single business day of the year, all over the country.

[Jonathan Steinke]

I've never actually been to a city council meeting so maybe I'll have to sit in on some of my local action. St. Louis has to have at least one council song-wielding weirdo.