Posted on 08/27/2015 5:43:27 AM PDT by don-o
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 crushing the criminal justice system in McLennan County and costing taxpayers a fortune.
Why did the story fade from public attention? What’s come out since the story broke?
As it turns out, it’s no accident that you haven’t heard more about the Waco biker debacle.
First, let’s look at two developments that seem like they would be informative, but actually aren’t.
(Excerpt) Read more at abovethelaw.com ...
” avoiding how you’ve indiscriminately accused all who were arrested as being members of criminal gangs, “
You keep repeating this and I keep repeating to you that I have NEVER avoided that.
“As for the ambush: yeah, let’s create a situation where there is lead flying “
No. Let’s not. But apparently the bikers did at Twin Peaks.
No, the leos set up an ambush zone at the twin peaks.
Safer would have been to confront them elsewhere away from any possible bystanders!
“Smith said “it all changed” when the Cossacks decided to put “Texas” on the back of their vests, intensifying mounting tensions with the Bandidos, who view Texas as their territory.”
“Safer would have been to confront them elsewhere away from any possible bystanders!”
The job of the police is NOT to confront, but to protect and enforce the law.
The bikers chose Twin Peaks for their turf war battle, not the police.
Lol.
They do an awful lot of confronting for “enforcing the law”.
And if bystander safety was such a concern, it still would have been better to do it elsewhere.
“The bikers chose Twin Peaks for their turf war battle, not the police.”
That’s why the cops set up pole cameras everywhere beforehand, right?
Which has anything to do with what occurred in Texas, but is yet more of the impugning guilt by inneundo, even to members of an MC who had been suffering being assaulted and even murdered by Bandidos.
Context of a conversation is everything. You whine like a little bitch when someone quotes you, then goes somewhere with it you don't care to go. But that's been YOUR game all along. So shut up.
Blame the victims (for those who likely were only protecting themselves, if they did anything other than try to duck, and stay out gunfire once it started) and keep forgetting about all the people who legally carry a gun because they can't carry a cop.
Even if they could carry a police officer, police officers are not sworn to protect ANYBODY.
They get to pick and chose (which is not entirly unreasonable).
They stick up for themselves, and their own gang, first. Just_about_always. Even after the shooting has stopped.
Isn't it interesting how that works? It's a crime when or if "bikers" attempt to protect themselves when attacked --- but just say a bad word to the po-po, and possibly suffer being assaulted for doing so.
Yes, deadly displays in public often take time to work out.
http://www.wnd.com/2015/07/grenade-lobbed-in-babys-crib-now-cop-indicted/
Besides, the kid lived anyway.
And when cops file false affidavits for search warrants, and judges sign the warrants without question, and infant children’s faces are blown off as a result, what does that have to do with the price of tea in China?
“That’s why the cops set up pole cameras everywhere beforehand, right?”
That is all they could do without the mayor declaring martial law.
“That is all they could do without the mayor declaring martial law.”
Bullcrap.
They do dui checkpoints, they do traffic stops, all without declaring “martial law”.
It has everything to do with what happened in Texas.
LOL!
The bikers wouldn’t have been drinking till AFTER the meeting. DUI checkpoints would not have stopped any bikers BEFORE the meeting.
Well, maybe a couple of the meth heads ...
Point was, they do those without declaring martial law.
And not everyone at a dui checkpoint has had a drink now, have they?
If you know who you wanted, and they did, you could find them pretty easily at just such a checkpoint...
But, again, bystander safety was of least concern.
You never have acknowledged it, other than as in form of the above, and reams of smart-ass flippancy which are then coupled with repeats of spurious allegations, liberally attributed to one and whom were arrested. That is, when you are dragging things in FROM CANADA!
Thus dodging the issue while you pretend to address it.
TROLL.
WTF? You are suggesting that the police should have rounded up over 200 bikers BEFORE they arrived at Twin Peaks.
LOL. You and Darksheare must be one and the same.
Since there were no Cossacks involved, then it has nothing to do with those Texans. Not anywhere close to base charges of conspiracy upon.
You argue by way of innuendo and implying that what some individual or group of individuals horizontally applies straight across to yet others --- who were not present during these other affairs you drag in from far away as Canada.
Why stop there? blame Scimitars and Cossacks in Texas, for what somebody else does in Europe and Australia while your at it.
Oh wait. That's right...
That's what you're virtually doing right now!
Wtf, are you suggesting that somehow having 200 bikers with supposed bystanders present was somehow safer when the lead started flying?
They shut down highways with relative ease, it was doable with some planning.
Safer for bystanders too!
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