“I don’t know too much about biker culture, but from what I have learned, ALL biker clubs in a given area must support the dominant club in the geographic area. The finest Christian biker group whose members never so much as shoplifted in their entire lives would be considered a ‘support club’.
The Attorney General might as well have said. “All the imprisoned are humans.” It carries as much significance. “
The support club people could just as easily go out and ride somewhere else, with somebody else. But they choose to ride with known criminals.
It is perhaps the middle ground that they feel works for them. Monday-Friday job. Wife and kids at home. But the riding gives an outlet for the thrill of hanging out where some degree of risk is present.
Spend half a day reading about the criminal biker gangs, across the country. You will learn for yourself that murder and mayhem is part of the culture, their reason for associating. And they welcome the groupies, wanna bees, and hangers on since that lends some credibility, respectability, cover for them.
The bikers good and bad share the like of danger, rebel imagery, etc.
The wives and employers of the good guys that got locked up, will be asking “why did he do something so obviously stupid?”
“The wives and employers of the good guys that got locked up, will be asking “why did he do something so obviously stupid?””
One of relatives of one that was killed said he was a good family guy that wasn’t in a gang and never liked violence, just the companionship of the friendly bikers.
Later his son said ““He hung out with Bandidos,”