IF we listen to all the brouhaha over the recent announcement of the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) that they will apprehend motorcycle riders who take shelter from heavy downpours under overpasses, you would think these people are being nailed to the cross and deprived of life, liberty and freedom.

A big chunk of the motorcycle riding community has been at this level of logic for the longest time. Any move to put order on the road that means having to discipline them is met with cries of oppression, anti-poor, discrimination and so much more.

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