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What you don't know about motorcycle clubs
CNN ^ | October 6, 2015 | William Dulaney

Posted on 10/06/2015 8:48:36 PM PDT by ExyZ

Add to this the fact that the outlaw biker narrative has been largely controlled over time, not by members of the culture, but outsiders and the misconceptions grow. Case in point: the Waco incident. Sgt. Swanton of the Waco Police Department effectively controlled the story of what happened on May 17, 2015, and it appears that story has already begun to unravel. Regardless of what ultimately is shown to be the truth about the events in Waco, if history tells us anything it's that that story will not likely be broadcast as widely as the law enforcement narrative was ... if at all.

(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: biker; reyna; swanton; texas; waco
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"As one who earns a living studying and teaching about threats to national security, it concerns me greatly to think that precious time, money, and manpower are wasted on targeting the wrong people. We have very real dangers to our society, our American way of life, but MCs are unequivocally not among those dangers. In my experience, patch-holders represent the very people who protect us from those threats."
1 posted on 10/06/2015 8:48:36 PM PDT by ExyZ
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To: ExyZ

Well if the muzzys for alah start one ?


2 posted on 10/06/2015 8:53:16 PM PDT by al baby (Hi Mom)
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To: ExyZ

Civil war ever starts against Obamas transformed Version of Amerika

And outlaw bikers are not likely riding with the tards

This is from CNN btw

Not some outlaw blog

In before croc and buttboy


3 posted on 10/06/2015 8:55:46 PM PDT by wardaddy (The establishment needs destroying)
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To: ExyZ

What they did not bother to mention is that *most* bikers are right wing, conservative, patriotic to a fault and a wildly disproportionate number of them are veterans.

They also tend to be Christian.

Just about everything Obeyme and his goons despise.


4 posted on 10/06/2015 8:57:29 PM PDT by Salamander (Like acid and oil on a madman's face, reason tends to fly away...)
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To: ExyZ

One thing I think everybody would agree. A bunch of folks went around playing bad biker (even though they wouldn’t physically hurt a fly) and when a deadly brawl broke out, the bad biker schtick got taken at face value.

There’s a whale of a lot of paranoia going around. Bikers and cops shouldn’t be enemies. But when a government gets all full of itself, weird and bad things happen.


5 posted on 10/06/2015 8:59:32 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: wardaddy

You cannot even imagine what the overwhelmingly prevalent sentiment really is, among bikers.

Disregarding the current _resident, I have not, in 23 years of association, run into one single “left wing” biker.


6 posted on 10/06/2015 9:00:11 PM PDT by Salamander (Like acid and oil on a madman's face, reason tends to fly away...)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

“Bikers and cops shouldn’t be enemies”

In my area, they’re tight.

The Blue Knights and the clubs work together for *many* charities and benefits.


7 posted on 10/06/2015 9:01:20 PM PDT by Salamander (Like acid and oil on a madman's face, reason tends to fly away...)
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To: Salamander; al baby; don-o; Elderberry; Texas Fossil; House Atreides; Cboldt

Yup.


8 posted on 10/06/2015 9:02:12 PM PDT by ExyZ
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To: HiTech RedNeck

Likely intelligence came from BATF and Homeland Security.

Consider the Homeland Security infiltration by the Muslim Brotherhood, is it likely they would fabricate a false report to distract Terrorist targeting attention from the Islamist sector?

I personally don’t think Waco Police are capable of causing such a screw up without outside involvement by the Feds in some capacity.

I have been convinced from the first day that this was a total Fed Directed Screw-up. I would like to find I am wrong, but I see nothing yet that backs that up.


9 posted on 10/06/2015 9:05:20 PM PDT by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: Texas Fossil

Who shot who, and why, and who knew... questions that a clowder of cats is curious about. Might have been a clumsy ambush.


10 posted on 10/06/2015 9:09:16 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: Salamander

“*most* bikers are right wing, conservative, patriotic to a fault and a wildly disproportionate number of them are veterans.”

Factual among people who love motorcycles. Not true at all regarding bandidos, and other organized crime gangs who happen to ride motorcycles.
The lamest thing ever is how normal riders love to act, dress, and organize exactly like the criminal gangs. Its retarded double think. I hear again and again how the gangs aren’t really a menace. Then I hear the same people talk about how its deadly serious to get permission of a local gang to wear a state name rocker.

Its like grown men living by a the rules of a sorority over specific clothing.


11 posted on 10/06/2015 9:12:00 PM PDT by DesertRhino ("I want those feeble minded asses overthrown,,,")
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To: HiTech RedNeck

“A bunch of folks went around playing bad biker (even though they wouldn’t physically hurt a fly) and when a deadly brawl broke out, the bad biker schtick got taken at face value.”


The May 1 law enforcement bulletin said the FBI had received information that Bandidos had discussed “going to war with Cossacks.” It also outlined several recent incidents between the two groups, including one instance in March when about 10 Cossacks forced a Bandido to pull over along Interstate 35 near Waco and attacked him with “chains, batons and metal pipes before stealing his motorcycle,” WFAA reported.

That same day, a group of Bandidos confronted a Cossack member fueling up at a truck stop in Palo Pinto County, west of Fort Worth, the bulletin said. When the Cossack member refused to remove the Texas patch from his vest, the Bandidos hit him in the head with a hammer and stole it.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/bandidos-vs-cossacks-the-biker-gang-war-texas-warned-of/


12 posted on 10/06/2015 9:18:03 PM PDT by TexasGator
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Wow. From CNN, no less.

I kinda think the guy nailed it.

No wonder MCs are on government's hit-list. Ultimately, the government thinks it should be doing the job the MCs are doing, down deep -- nanny government dispenses charity, you outlaws! Heaven forfend if organized bikers descended where SEMA has already set up in all its efficiency.

I think Syncro has something.

Ping to Syncro because of comment on another thread, It was a setup to harass motorcyclists and get rid of a few of them. Many gov types are scared of bikers so go to bizarre extremes to try to scare them back.

13 posted on 10/06/2015 9:20:14 PM PDT by Finny (Be prepared to own what you vote for. Voting "against" is a wish.)
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To: DesertRhino

“I hear again and again how the gangs aren’t really a menace. Then I hear the same people talk about how its deadly serious to get permission of a local gang to wear a state name rocker.”

How the heck does one motorcycle ‘club’ manange to dominate the leadership roles in ALL the Texas Confederation of Clubs and Independents Chapters?

Where do all the dues go that all the TCofCI members pay?


14 posted on 10/06/2015 9:20:26 PM PDT by TexasGator
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To: TexasGator

The Bandido stole the Cossack’s head


15 posted on 10/06/2015 9:20:55 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: Finny

“Wow. From CNN, no less. I kinda think the guy nailed it. “

LOL! CNN is your source of record!


16 posted on 10/06/2015 9:21:10 PM PDT by TexasGator
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To: TexasGator

that has to be at least as good as See-BS noose...


17 posted on 10/06/2015 9:22:47 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: Salamander

“They also tend to be Christian.”

LOL! If they were TRUE Christians, they would have been in church with their families instead of at a breastaurant!


18 posted on 10/06/2015 9:22:55 PM PDT by TexasGator
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To: DesertRhino

Wish you’d made this post this earlier today.

I’d have asked a few Norsemen about your “facts”.

/guffaw


19 posted on 10/06/2015 9:23:56 PM PDT by Salamander (Like acid and oil on a madman's face, reason tends to fly away...)
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http://www.kxxv.com/story/30175858/two-former-hill-county-sheriffs-office-employees-plead-guilty-to-tampering-with-governmental-records

“On Friday afternoon, former Hill County Sheriff’s Office Captain Leroy Rodriguez and former Hill County Chief Deputy Mark Wilson pleaded guilty to tampering with a governmental record.”

Sheriff’s trial is upcoming.. that’d make three.

(d) “Criminal street gang” means three or more persons having a common identifying sign or symbol or an identifiable leadership who continuously or regularly associate in the commission of criminal activities.


20 posted on 10/06/2015 9:24:27 PM PDT by ExyZ
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