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Down in Waco, the Baylor slime factor has overflowed the banks of the Brazos, and many people over the last week, 99.9 percent of them outside of McLennan County, are blaming Art Briles. In Waco, riding a Harley chopper can get you life without parole.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=any4cI6nAf8&index=1&list=PLPnLjoW07bV0zxAVQcjXZoHLibjuRoZas The Waco shootout at a Twin Peaks restaurant flooded with bikers from clubs such as the Cossacks, the Bandidos, and many more is explained with witness, Richard Luther. Luther’s experience as a Cossack, the shootout, thoughts on a possible conspiracy, and the 33 days he would go on to spend in jail after the shootout is explored. Learn the ugly truth about the police handling of the situation, the cruel and unusual punishment that bikers suffered in jail, and the pieces of the puzzle that don’t add up, in this Antidote interview hosted by Michael Parker.

I’ve reported at length before about various reasons to question the official government narrative surrounding the chaotic and violent incident that resulted in nine people shot to death and 18 wounded and 177 arrested outside the Twin Peaks restaurant in Waco, Texas, on May 17. It all happened outside a planned meeting of a mostly political biker club coalition, the Confederation of Clubs and Independents. See here for the most recent, and here the most thorough, of that reporting. The gag order on people involved in defending the arrested, keeping information from flowing to the public on this controversy, was...

Gun ownership is on trial in Waco, so why aren't the NRA and all the open-carry advocates going nuts over what's happening regarding prosecutions from the the Twin Peaks biker massacre? In McLennan County, visiting Judge James Morgan ruled after an examining trial that there was sufficient cause to have arrested a 65-year old concealed carry permit holder who wasn't wearing a biker cut but a Christian t-shirt (he's chaplain to the Bandidos and two veterans groups) because he was carrying legal personal weapons. The judge declared there was probable cause to support an arrest even though no police "officer...

Whatever happened to all those Waco bikers? You know, the 177 people arrested at the Twin Peaks restaurant in Waco, Texas after a motorcycle rally on May 17 ended with nine people shot dead? Immediately following the shooting, I wrote about just how badly Waco authorities screwed up the arrests. Rather than trifle with technicalities like the rules for bail under the Texas Code of Criminal Procedure, Justice of the Peace Pete Peterson set bail at a staggering $1 million for each of the arrestees in order to “send a message.” Then I described how prosecuting nearly 200 bikers was...

“Somebody planted the sonuvabitch.” That was one organizer’s immediate assessment after a bomb threat forced about 75 bikers and supporters to disperse from in front of the McLennan County courthouse Saturday morning. The bikers had organized a memorial for the nine people killed at the Twin Peaks shooting in Waco three months ago, but the gathering was also supposed to serve as something of a rally for the 177 bikers arrested that day. But now, thanks to a suspicious cooler and a suitcase, the group dissolved. Clint Broden, the lawyer most publicly associated with the case, was scheduled to speak....

The national administrator for the 2 Million Bikers to DC Facebook page issued a press release saying that the meeting on May 17th at the Twin Peaks restaurant gathered with no intent to engage in organized crime. He includes in the letter what he calls the agenda for the meeting that day. snip Cara Danette Johnston told Breitbart Texas that the “biggest lie” is that the bikers all went to a regularly-scheduled regional bikers meeting with criminal intent, and/or to discuss anything related to a “turf war.” Johnson describes herself as a biker “[w]ho loves and believes in the good...

Two separate grand juries will conduct investigations into the shootings that occurred outside a Twin Peaks restaurant in Waco in May, according to McLennan County District Attorney Abelino "Abel" Reyna. The shootings led to nine deaths and arrests of 170 bikers, charged with engaging in organized crime. One grand jury will investigate the cases against the bikers, and another will investigate police officer use of deadly force, Reyna said. Reyna commented about grand jury plans after Sam Bassett, the president of the Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Association (TCDLA), raised concerns about the composition of any grand jury scheduled to investigate...

A memorial service for Twin Peaks bikers who were slain in the May 17th shootings was abruptly halted by a bomb scare on Saturday. One of the leaders of the group told Breitbart Texas, “A lot of the bikers are not buying it.” The memorial began at the Old Six Flags Mall on Division Street in Arlington, Texas. The sixty riders in the processional were joined by approximately forty additional riders on their way to the McLennan County courthouse in Waco, Texas. They were greeted by about one hundred more bikers and other supporters when they arrived in Waco. The...

In an opinion released Thursday, Justice Rex Davis of the 10th Court of Appeals declared that officials had sufficient probable cause to arrest two bikers after the May 17 Twin Peaks shootout in Waco. The melee killed nine men and injured another 20, resulting in the arrest of 177 bikers, each initially held on controversial $1 million bonds on a charge of engaging in organized criminal activity. Final autopsy reports were released last week on the nine killed in the melee, but ballistics evidence remains publicly unavailable, pending the completion of an investigation headed by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco,...

“CLEAT lawyers and staffers were on the scene shortly after reports of the shooting surfaced,” the web story explained. “Organizer Tracy Chance was allowed access to officers at fixed positions to make sure they had access to water and sports drinks to keep them hydrated. Tracy was able to get the photos posted here.”

Texas Lawyer reported today that all 177 persons arrested after the Twin Peaks Massacre in Waco, Texas last May 17 are likely to either be indicted or cleared by a grand jury that might not meet for another two months.

Waco – When Cossack Motorcyle Club member Cody Ledbetter appeared a half-hour early for his examining trial before retired Visiting Judge James Morgan Monday afternoon, August 17, he was surprised to learn the issue of enough probable cause to bind him over for a Grand Jury appearance was already settled. Paul Looney, a seasoned defense attorney with offices in Houston and Hempstead, told him, “You lose the ankle bracelet, you lose the curfew, and you lose the travel restrictions.” That’s when Ledbetter and members of his family burst into tears. During the lunch hour, Looney and lead prosecutor Michael Jarrett...

Yesterday in Waco, a judge named James Morgan, ruled that there was probable cause to arrest William and Morgan English, a nice, young couple from Brenham, Texas, for engaging in organized criminal activity. The charge carries a penalty of five to 99 years in prison. The Englishes had attended a brunch sponsored by the Texas Confederation of Clubs and Independents on May 17 at the Twin Peaks restaurant. Multiple, informed sources said Judge Morgan did not appear to be drunk. Morgan based his ruling on the testimony of a Texas Department of Public Safety Lieutenant named Steven Schwartz who indentified...

WACO, Texas – An attorney for one of the men charged in the Twin Peaks shootings in May has filed a subpoena to get surveillance video from the Waco restaurant during the shootings, but the city has moved to quash the subpoena.

At the moment, more than a dozen examining trials are scheduled for some of the bikers arrested in the wake of the May 17 shooting melee at Twin Peaks that left nine dead and some 20 people injured. But if Monday’s hearing for a biker and his wife is any indication, we may not learn much more than many of us concluded three months ago, such as the perils of wearing colors or biker insignia when gunfire breaks out among some questionable company. This bit of wisdom remains true: It might be your right to wear whatever biker colors you...

Just yesterday, one of our listeners wrote in to ask the latest updates following the biker shootout in Waco that left nine dead and 177 arrested. Given those high numbers, you'd think there might be a video of the incident somewhere — surveillance cameras or cell phone footage. We hear that there are videos, but the public hasn't been able to view them or learn anything about what's in those videos because of a gag order in place. After three months, trials are finally being scheduled, and autopsy reports were finally released this past Thursday. But aside from showing that...

A visiting judge ruled Monday that Waco police had sufficient probable cause to jail a biker and his wife in the wake of the deadly May 17 shootout at Twin Peaks. Retired State District Judge James Morgan denied a motion from attorney Paul Looney, who represents Brenham residents William and Morgan J. English, to clear them of engaging in organized criminal activity charges after a brief examining trial Monday morning. In denying the motion, Morgan ruled that there was sufficient evideince to bind them over to a grand jury for indictment and that authorities had sufficient probable cause to arrest...

Six Shooter Junction – Court observers and members of the community of motorcycle enthusiasts are eagerly anticipating a series of show-downs between prosecutors and defense lawyers over the evidence to be presented in the Twin Peaks shoot-em-up of May 17. One of the most cited legal scholars of our time, Professor Karl Llewellyn of Columbia and the University of Chicago, wrote in his seminal work, “The Bramble Bush,” that the legal realist takes a view that what judges, lawyers, and law enforcement officers “do about disputes is, to my mind, the law itself.” The 17 Twin Peaks cases set for...

The autopsy reports for the nine men killed in the Twin Peaks Massacre in Waco on May 17 are a thicket of words that don’t seem to answer many questions. The reports may be as important for what they don’t disprove as for what they do or don’t prove. They do not for example, disprove the notion that all, or at least most of the dead men were killed by police using M-16s and FN P90 machine guns. Thirteen of sixteen entrance wounds were .25 inches in diameter or smaller. FN P90s fire a round with a diameter of .224409...