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False Flags, Biker Gangs, and the PATCON Legacy
Lew Rockwell .com ^ | 5/21/2015 | William Norman Grigg

Posted on 05/21/2015 5:37:51 AM PDT by Jack Black

The bloody incident at Waco’s Twin Peaks restaurant was not a “biker shootout.” At present there is no evidence that any of the nine victims were killed by fellow bikers, rather than being “taken out” by the scores of police — including snipers — who had effectively turned the parking lot into a kill zone.

The Twin Peaks Massacre has prompted the predictable outpouring of state-centered outrage over the purported threat posed by Outlaw Motorcycle Clubs (OMCs). Buried beneath the blizzard of re-purposed official press releases is a critical disclosure made by former FBI undercover operative John Matthews: During the 1990s, as part of the FBI’s PATCON (Patriot Conspiracy) operation, Matthews and his handler, Donald Jarrett, sold illegally converted full-auto machine guns to narcotics-dealing motorcycle gangs. (I first reported about this in early March.) This was done through one of the firearms stores later forced by the ATF into participating in the “Fast & Furious” gun-walking scandal, in which firearms of that kind were provided to operatives of Mexican criminal cartels.

“As we talk of gun control … over the years [of] how many cases of sporterized SKS, AK47s, and SKSs were sold to groups and case after case of ammo for them all with the blessings of the FBI & ATF with no paper work,” Matthews wrote in a November 8, 2014 email (lightly edited here for spelling and grammar). “Also let’s not forget the AR15s, they were made full auto from the Lone Wolf gun store back in the 90s by a guy brought in by the FBI for me to put in place. Those guns went to bikers who were sell[ing] drugs on the border. Those drugs were [believed] to be coming in from China.”

In March 2013 correspondence with Jarrett, Matthews referred to the David Mann, the dealer brought in by the FBI to broker the firearms transaction with the biker gang.

“I [would] pick him up in Payson, AZ on our way up to Surplus & Stuff in Snowflake … and met with a guy name[d] Tim,” Matthews recalled in a March 28, 2013 email to Jarrett. “He [would] show him his weapons that he was making and how he could make them anything they wanted. Then from there we took a trip up to where the guy [kept] the tractors that we were thinking the dope was coming in from.”

The tractors were apparently being used as part of an international narcotics smuggling operation.

During the trip recalled by Matthews, he and David Mann met with another individual who “ran the church and we [thought was] selling the drugs to the bikers. We were going to get David to sell weapons too [sic] them. This trip was where [I] got David in with this [sic] guys so I could move on. Does this sound right to you[?] Also have more info on him and [meetings] at gun store (Lone Wolf) and other places like Scottsdale, before we turn[ed] him loose.”

“Yes, that sounds absolutely correct about David,” Jarrett replied the following day. “I only introduced you to one guy that work[ed] with guns, and that was David.”

On March 2 I sent a letter to the Justice Department’s Office of Inspector General requesting an investigation of Matthews’ confirmed claims about the FBI’s role in arming biker gangs. A week later I received an official reply that tacitly validated those claims while dismissing them as inconsequential: “The Investigations Division of the Office of the Inspector General has thoroughly reviewed your allegations and concluded that the issues raised do not warrant an investigation by this office.”

Salt Lake City attorney Jesse Trentadue, who has been investigating the death of his brother Kenneth in FBI custody following the 1995, following the 1995 Oklahoma City Bombing, has been responsible for nearly all of the key disclosures regarding the PATCON program. This was an effort by the FBI to infiltrate so-called Radical Right groups with informants and provocateurs. In a telephone interview, Trentadue told me that he firmly believes that there is a connection between the PATCON-related FBI initiative to arm biker gangs, and the bloodshed in Waco over the weekend.

“At the very least, we’re dealing with part of the legacy of PATCON,” Trentadue declared.

PATCON wasn’t the FBI’s only means of infiltrating OMCs. In 2004, James “Pagan Ronnie” Howerton, a prominent member of the Pagans OMC and a convicted murderer, was recruited by the FBI. He eventually became the club’s sergeant-at-arms. Five years later, the Feds breathlessly announced that with the help of their undercover asset they had compiled a massive indictment against the Pagans as an interstate criminal conspiracy. That bloated indictment eventually deflated into a small number of relatively trivial charges against specific members of the club. The interstate “criminal enterprise” was reduced to the accusation that the Pagans had committed a federal offense by running a raffle.

The only notable violent crime arising from the federal investigation of the Pagans was the police murder of Iraq combat veteran Derek Hale, who was tasered a dozen times and then murdered, execution-style, by Lt. William Brown of the Wilmington, Delaware Police Department. Hale, who was killed in front of the wife and children of a friend from the club, had no criminal record, nor was he a criminal suspect. He died because the State’s officially licensed gang decided to wage an indiscriminate war on the motorcycle club to which he belonged — which, in all probability, is what happened in Waco over the weekend.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: banglist; bikershootout; falseflag
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To: Jack Black

“as the bikers may have had some guns on them but they would have been pistols, not rifles “

At least 117 including one AR-15.


21 posted on 05/21/2015 6:26:07 AM PDT by TexasGator
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To: TexasGator
I know. That is the really interesting thing. Reports from clubs at the scene are mixed(to be expected). The Cassocks were called the “upstarts” by the MSN. They were also cited as the ones that started the previous incident. Have you determined if any of the dead were Cassock leadership? I suspect that if the Cassocks went looking to cause trouble they found it the hands of trigger happy cops. It is also possible that the clubs are riddled with informants although biker culture would make that difficult but not impossible - see Falco.
22 posted on 05/21/2015 6:29:42 AM PDT by mad_as_he$$
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To: Jack Black; wardaddy; Salamander; archy

It sounds like it’s right out of British General Frank Kitson’s “Gangs and Counter-gangs” manual. He developed the technique as a young British officer during the Mau-Mau War in Kenya. You have your own side dress up like the enemy and perpetrate atrocities against rival enemy gangs so that they will turn on one another. It’s false-flag stuff all the way.

Kitson was the first commanding general during the British occupation of Northern Ireland. The false-flag “counter gangs” method that worked well in Kenya was a total disaster in Ireland, and led to 20 years of civil war.

No matter what else happened in Waco, the ATF (running the show with their lap-poodles in the Waco PD) has declared war on all one-percenters. This will not end with the Waco Massacre, any more than false-flag “counter-gang” operations in Northern Ireland ended the conflict there. Kitson’s false-flag ops in Northern Ireland just poured gasoline on a small brush fire.

The outlaw bikers will never forget this ambush massacre (as they will regard it forever).


23 posted on 05/21/2015 6:31:44 AM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: IYAS9YAS

Agreed. See post 22. Could be that they were sacrificed. I have access to members of three clubs and they are all pretty freaked out right now. Many biker events this weekend. One club here in Northern Nevada has banned colors for a week.


24 posted on 05/21/2015 6:32:41 AM PDT by mad_as_he$$
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To: Jack Black

“First they came for the bikers, but I wasn’t a biker. I hated bikers.”

ADDRESSING WACO

It was a well known fact by all bikers, citizens and yes, WACO police (which includes FEDS) that the COC [Confederation of CLubs] meeting would be held on Sunday. All of the above groups, 1%’s, MC’s and Biker Orgs attend these meetings. Again the COC is a way to let others know about upcoming legislation, events & rides as well as discuss Patch issues. (Patches are the symbols that each group wears on their leathers, letting others know what group they represent).

There are several “theories” floating around ~ Let’s get rid of the first one, it was NOT a fight over a parking space! Bikers rarely if ever fight over a freaking parking space! They don’t need to, they can fit 2-3 bikes per space!

The second we hear is that it started in the bathroom, that could be the case as per other reports there was an issue that occurred. However, the weekend before the planned COC meeting there was an issue that may have spilled over to the fight that occurred. BUT the fight broke our PRIOR to meeting time.

What we DO know is that the place was already surrounded by FEDS, WACO Police and ATF LONG before any biker showed up! WHY were they there? Literally HUNDREDS of biker meetings between the various 1%, MC’s and Org’s had met there in the past ….ALL peacefully! The PD states it was because of the dispute the previous week. HOWEVER, there was a fight that started inside Twin Peaks and made it’s way outside! Those fighting had KNIVES …NOT GUNS when they took the fight outside.

NO GUNS were shown as the fight made it outside from our understanding, but that is when the police started firing. WE DO NOT know if someone pulled out a gun from within the groups OR if the police were just too quick on their draw! Either way, ALMOST all shots fired came from police…not the ones fighting. ***again this is from we are getting from those there***

HERE IS OUR TAKE ON IT ALL:

WACO PD have not been very friendly towards bikers and the FEDS TOTALLY despise Bikers! Why? Because we are not afraid of them or their agenda! We are a threat to them! Remember folks we were able to organize in 24 days 800,000 -1.2 million bikers to DC! We did it WITHOUT their permission or support! They even SHUT DOWN the traffic cams…had the news NOT flown over the scene there would have been NO proof that we rode! Yes, folks, like it or not even 1%’s rode with us! They set aside their territories and rode peacefully! JUST like they do at ALL COC meetings!

Bikers stand up to them, to their Christian hate, their muslim agenda and whatever else they want to throw at us! BIKERS ARE PRESENTLY THE BACKBONE of PATRIOT AMERICA! WHAT BETTER WAY TO BRING THEM DOWN THAN WITH BAD PRESS SUCH AS THIS!

OUR question to WACO PD & FEDS ~

WHO’s bullets killed the 9 who died and those taken to the hospital?

Where is all the video from that surrounds the TWIN PEAKS and all the other businesses?

WHY have no charges been filed yet EACH of those in custody have a $1,000,000 bond?

WHY were those who had LEGAL carry permits arrested?
WHY are so many being held in jail that do not have records, were not part of the OMG’s they (PD) were targeting?

WHY are ALL BIKES of those in jail being confiscated via Civil Forfeiture? Civil forfeiture is supposed to occur if someone is found GUILTY of a crime while that “property” was in use or used to commit the crime!

WHY are bikers that had NO association with their targets being held on $1,000,000 bond? MANY are Christian Bikers and Veteran Bikers who committed no crime other than being on the scene?

Now as a whole this group does NOT condone police bashing, FED bashing YES….but WACO PD seems to be part of the FED agenda! So America, ask yourselves this…WHEN SHTF (and it will) WHO do you want on YOUR side? BIKERS OR FEDS? We KNOW where the FEDS stand and we KNOW how much they hate bikers!

LAST NOTE: There was NEVER EVER any threats made to WACO PD! That was TOTALLY made up!


25 posted on 05/21/2015 6:33:59 AM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Travis McGee

“There are always fights on bike nights, so we expected the usual,” commented Sara, a waitress”

This was a family strip mall. The police tried to work with everyone to calm it down but Twin Peaks wanted the business.


26 posted on 05/21/2015 6:36:13 AM PDT by TexasGator
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To: Travis McGee

Waitress inside the restaurant were afraid to dial out because so many inside had drawn weapons!


27 posted on 05/21/2015 6:37:37 AM PDT by TexasGator
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To: TexasGator
Are you a cop?

Just asking.

28 posted on 05/21/2015 6:37:47 AM PDT by OldSmaj (obama is a worthless mohametan. Impeach his ass now!)
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To: Travis McGee

“They don’t need to, they can fit 2-3 bikes per space!”

If there is a Bandido bike in a space can a Cossack also park there?


29 posted on 05/21/2015 6:38:37 AM PDT by TexasGator
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To: OldSmaj

“Are you a cop? Just asking.”

No, but thank you, Mr. Alinsky, for asking.


30 posted on 05/21/2015 6:39:30 AM PDT by TexasGator
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To: Travis McGee

“WHY were they there? “

Because everytime the bikers met there was fight. Remember, this ‘was’ a family mall. I am sure that the adjoining restaurant, Cabelas and the other businesses were not happy about what Twin Peaks had created. They wanted to be inside also to keep the peace but the manager said no.


31 posted on 05/21/2015 6:45:54 AM PDT by TexasGator
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To: Travis McGee

“Literally HUNDREDS of biker meetings between the various 1%, MC’s and Org’s had met there in the past ….ALL peacefully! “

“There are always fights on bike nights, so we expected the usual,” commented Sara, a waitress.

http://news.yahoo.com/twin-peaks-waitresses-chronicle-texas-biker-bloodshed—uncertain-futures-013656110.html


32 posted on 05/21/2015 6:47:34 AM PDT by TexasGator
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To: Travis McGee

“LAST NOTE: There was NEVER EVER any threats made to WACO PD! That was TOTALLY made up!”

I think the above was totally made up.


34 posted on 05/21/2015 6:48:46 AM PDT by TexasGator
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To: grobdriver

Yes, Occam’s Razor applies.

Various LEO groups learn of a “potentially violent biker meet-up”. Expecting trouble, they show up in force. Really expecting trouble, they’re watching for the first hint of trouble, shooting the first guy who apparently pulls a knife on another. Shots fired, everyone starts taking cover & drawing weapons (of any kind). Furtive movements everywhere, cops start shooting anyone armed and showing any hint of threatening anyone. Soon 9 are dead, dozens injured/incapacitated, and the rest are hiding - activity stops.

High-strung cops expecting a fight, prepared for one, found one and piled on.

Occam’s Razor applies.


35 posted on 05/21/2015 6:49:45 AM PDT by ctdonath2 (Hillary:polarizing/calculating/disingenuous/insincere/ambitious/inevitable/entitled/overconfident/se)
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To: OldSmaj

“Hey it was a casual inquiry, no call for the Alinsky crap.”

There was no reason based on my posts to think I was a cop.


36 posted on 05/21/2015 6:50:45 AM PDT by TexasGator
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To: TexasGator

Maybe so, but the “official police explanation” stinks on ice.

How many of the nine dead and 20+ wounded were shot by police carbines? Don’t you want to know? Or don’t you care?

Some folks here are saying, “Good! I hate bikers anyway!”

Please understand that “tea party terrorists” will be next on the hit parade.

In the media, you and I will be portrayed as maniac right-wing fanatics who fired first at the SWAT team that was on standby.


37 posted on 05/21/2015 6:52:00 AM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: TexasGator

Some people consider roughhousing “peaceful” - amounting to hard play, and quite distinct from something warranting cops shooting people as the only way to stop combatants lest greater harm happen.


38 posted on 05/21/2015 6:53:11 AM PDT by ctdonath2 (Hillary:polarizing/calculating/disingenuous/insincere/ambitious/inevitable/entitled/overconfident/se)
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To: TexasGator

“Waitress inside the restaurant were afraid to dial out because so many inside had drawn weapons!”

WHERE ARE THE VIDEOS?


39 posted on 05/21/2015 6:53:18 AM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: TexasGator

I spent time around bikers and they are like any other gang, in a group or up against a middle aged nerd accountant or women they might be brave, flying solo they are neutered sheep.


40 posted on 05/21/2015 6:53:52 AM PDT by Resolute Conservative
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