Posted on 10/03/2019 3:40:19 AM PDT by Zhang Fei
In 2007, when I first met Jeff Pike, he had just finished an eleven-mile bicycle ride. He was wearing shorts, a T-shirt, and tennis shoes. We were at his two-story home that he had built on some secluded property five miles outside of Conroe, north of Houston. He was a good-looking guy, then 51 years old, and he wore his salt-and-pepper hair in a crewcut. As he handed me a bottled water, he gave me the most cheerful of grins. “Not what you expected, huh?” he asked.
Not exactly. At the time, I was told by law enforcement officers that Pike was Texas’s Tony Soprano, a ruthless criminal who led the Bandidos with an iron fist. One undercover agent with the Department of Public Safety warned me to be very careful around the Bandidos’ boss. “The last thing you want to do is get on his bad side,” he said.
Yet Pike simply shrugged as I asked him about the various allegations that had been thrown his way—including a recent report that he even had ordered the executions of some wayward Bandidos in Canada who hadn’t been following club rules. “It’s ridiculous,” he said.
Pike liked to describe himself as an ordinary guy: a divorced father whose two children attended the University of Texas. He said he got up early in the mornings, made the bed, walked the dogs, spent time restoring custom cars in a fabrication shop on his property, rode his bicycle to stay in shape, took his new girlfriend (a certified public accountant) to the movies, and occasionally participated in weekend “runs” (motorcycle trips) with his fellow Bandidos.
“Why can’t the feds just accept the fact that we are a bunch of bikers who love to get together and have some fun?” he said
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“that resulted in zero convictions).”
It’s going to result in some Bandidos becoming very rich, too.
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Yeah, because a criminal organization head would in real life order a shoot out at a political rally.
And let’s all describe a “Hooters” style restaurant that has a bar in it as just a bar.
Perhaps because Texas Monthly is pretty much the Texas version of Mother Jones, and conservatives don’t want to give them hits directly.
That works for me anyway.
Since you are attempting to raise such a snit about them not getting direct hits on their site, then I am forced to assume that you support Texas Monthly’s politics.
And if you somehow wish to assert that I am wrong on that, then it is up to you to prove that I am wrong and explain the meaning of your whiny little nitpicking.
I am betting that you can’t.
“Yeah, because a criminal organization head..”
How many convictions again?
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Read the post again.
I was pretty much knocking that notion.
You don’t schedule criminal activity for a political meeting open to the general public.
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