But not so damned short that they'd do something so stupid as to show up at a gig like this meeting and start a territorial shootout. Not even the dumbest dumb-ass hood.
Or I don't know my biker subculture, and I do.
The fact that only one third of the 177 arrested even had a criminal record is enough to tell you all you need to know as to the legitimacy of this.
There are a whole lotta gullible Americans who are being set up in a divide-and-conquer operation. Remember that 800,000 to 1.2 million Americans on Harleys thundered through Washington, D.C. on 9//11/13. You had better believe it put the fear of God into a lot of politicians.
Patches, smatches -- the whole official Waco narrative is wholesale horse puckey. WHOLESALE. All you need to know to spot it, is that only a third even had records. ANY bad-ass biker or wannabee bad-ass biker under the age of 23 has a record. A lot of good-ol-boy red-blooded American patriot adventurers who love and ride Harleys have records. A lot of them don't.
This Waco thing is profoundly disturbing on many levels. Americans are being turned against each other by being fed propaganda and pressured to tremble in fear at being called a "conspiracy theorist" for putting pieces together and dialing in on a completely different picture.
Yes, there are many bothersome things about this. I fully understand that to maintain our liberties often the only way is to defend those less than desirable elements.
I am certain that many non- gang bikers were caught up in this. Poor choice on their part. I learned this a long time ago when guys would go on liberty and come back robbed, beaten, stabbed, shot, with some weird disease, etc and I slowly noted that these things tended not to happen at the art museum or the Eiffel Tower or the Smithsonian or the library. There was a girl at the stable where I show recently complaining she can’t meet decent guys. She told me she goes to clubs and bars to meet them. No wonder.
My point is if you want to dress like a hoodlum and hang around them, whether you are one or not, or you try to meet guys in seedy places instead of school or church, some not very favorable things can happen.