Hi there!
Lee Rhiannon kept the messages from the rally and I only got them back via mail today. So here they are all typed up!
~ Phuong ~

‘Wheels of Justice’ Sydney - Messages

If this is an indication of justice - God help the generations after us.

It’s time to break up the “boys” club in the police force and start becoming honourable men.

I’ve ridden bikes in Vancouver, Tokyo, Toronto, Ohio, Amsterdam, Berlin, Bruse, Juscon, but NEVER have felt more at *risk* than in *Sydney* as a cyclist.

Make room for us on the roads!

Premier Carr - build fewer roads for cars. Build more cycle ways and public transport. Eugene McGee has highlighted two issues important to me: cycle awareness and abuse of the Law by those who are supposed to uphold it. Please make sure incidents such as this do not happen in our state.

Justice and peace for people doing the right thing - riding bicycles

You break it, you pay for it.

Drunken men wander our streets armed with heavy metal weapons and our Law believes their manslaughters to be acceptable accidents.

The more the people speak out for change, for the people in government to take the obvious steps, it will become inevitable that this city, a hopefully all cities, can become safer and cleaner places to ride bicycles, for bicycles to become a more widely used form of transport.

Just because you are a cyclist doesn’t mean it is your fault!Drivers need to be responsible for their actions.

Bike facilities are in the richest and poorest cities of the world, in recognition as a democratic and sustainable means of transport. Why not Sydney? Who will join the visionary leaders of the planet? Sleep better at night.

Minister for Transport, we demand better driver education and awareness of cyclists and their rights on the road. We want more and safer bicycle paths and lanes. We urge you to have drivers take accountability for their actions and reviews need to be made into proper penalties for murders.

To allow Eugene McGee to continue to practice law is a disgrace to the legal system and one of the greatest perversions of justice to happen within the legal system of Australia.

Disband McGee NOW!

Mr Minister, please educate motorists to make it safer for cyclists to use the roads.

Accountability, education, sustainability and justice are the foundations of democracy. Without those things, where are we?

Our government should encourage sustainable transport.

Cycling should lead to health, not death.

Cyclists are people too! We are here because a cyclist was killed by a cop and he didn’t have to go to goal only $3000 fine. Take responsibility for your actions! Lower speed limits are sensible, Mr Carr.

Vehicles should be automatically at fault when involved in incident with cyclist, until proven otherwise. Just like in Europe.It’s time you started supporting cyclists as a realistic transport option.

One Law for all!

We have as much right to use the road as everyone else.

A life is worth more than $3100.

Stop subsidising 4WDs!

Please bring justice to our *public* roads!

Give more respect to cyclists. It needs to be safer. Protect the healthy!Cyclists are the future. Make it happen!

Tougher Laws for hit-and-run. Just because it’s a cyclist doesn’t mean you get off!

Cyclists are sick of being second class citizens in the city of Sydney.

Stop the hiding. Bring justice so that safety can prevail - everywhere.

We don’t want bike lanes. We don’t want bike paths. We just want to safely SHARE THE ROAD.The roads are for sharing. I’m a motorist too.

Cyclists need to be *recognised*.

Justice for Ian Humphrey’s killer.

Cyclists need the protection of the Law. If a few people can break the Law and get away with it no-one will respect it. If a driver kills someone it should be manslaughter as a default charge. Funny that if it was men that run a cyclist over I would be in jail for life!

The gang banger with a stolen G-lock 9mm… The stalker with a kitchen knife in his coat pocket… The driver over the limit… are all equally capable and equally responsible for the inevitable end result… the Law should treat each one equally.Let’s make the Laws equal for all!

Justice is supposed to protect the innocent, NOT the guilty!

There is a concept in Australian Law, often called the “fair and reasonable in the circumstances”. This case has only proven the old age of “the Law is an ass”.

Please provide cyclists with safe infrastructure so we can avoid being killed by cars and trucks and having our lungs destroyed by toxic exhaust fumes.

Cyclists and pedestrians deserve a safe network of off road paths and cycleways, connecting residential and commercial areas. Only when schoolchildren can safely ride or walk to school and sport and the elderly can walk or die to the shops, without playing Russian roulette on the roads, can we truly call ourselves a “developed society”.

I’m here today to protest against a $3100 fine given a policeman who killed a cyclist. Was not given a breath test for 2 hours. I want JUSTICE in Australia.

I am writing to express my outrage at the sentence handed out to lawyer Eugene McGee, who killed a cyclist after hitting him while driving, then fled the scene.

The $3100 fine & 12 month loss of licence does not justify the killing fo a person, husband and father. As an avid cyclist I believe we should have the right to feel safe on the roads, and also believe the Laws should be changed to make the rights of cyclist equal to those of other road users. Eugene McGee should, at very least, be not allowed to practise Law any longer, and jail sentence should be mandatory for such a callous, cowardly act.

We would like to express our very deep sympathy to Di Humphrey and her children for their profound loss. We also believe the penalty for leaving an injured person by the side of the road should be increased. People need to know that hit and run is unacceptable. It is to late for Mrs. Humphrey and her children.

Car drivers must be educated to respect and watch for cyclists. Cyclists have families, parents, children and other loved ones.

Cyclists also have rights!!! Unfortunately these are often not recognised by other road users. Now the so-called justice system of South Australia has given these ‘other’ road users a clear message - you can leave a father of two dying on the side of the road and get away with it even though you hit him with your four wheel driver vehicle and had been drinking!!! What price a cyclist’s life, what price the loss of a father and husband?

$3100 and 12 months licence suspension. SHAME!

The road is there to share. Car drivers who cause injury or death to a cyclist should be punished adequately. As human beings they have a duty of compassion to stop and render assistance if they are involved in an accident with a cyclist.

I applaud the NSW government on the legislation to impose a jail sentence on a driver who fails to stop at the scene of an accident. I support the protests against the South Australian motorist who failed to stop after killing a cyclist and call for the SA government to uphold the findings of the proposed Royal Commission into the incident.

Ian Humphrey was murdered and McGee got off with a $3100 fine. That’s not justice. Please provide more cycle paths and create awareness of cyclists on the road.

Cycling is great for health and does not pollute like vehicle exhaust. It’s a social activity and does not cause traffic congestion. Please support all cyclists in NSW and Australia by providing facilities and ensuring Laws protect us.

Please ensure our Laws don’t let an offender like McGee off so lightly - protect cyclists’ lives and right to ride!

What is this country coming to when a person can kill somebody and get away with a mere slap on the wrist? A father of two left on the side of the road to die. THIS DOES NOT MAKE ME PROUD TO BE AN AUSTRALIAN!! Would the punishment have been the same if the driver wasn’t a middle-aged, middle-class white male? SHAME ON YOUR SOUTH AUSTRALIA!!

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