Trust me on this after 15 years here
Nuance is beyond the grasp of many here
They like it simple
And worse
Safe
And they work in packs
Always have but its a lot better than it used to be
I could give you inside baseball info here from my history that you would claim I’m lying
Freeperlife is about a clearinghouse of news and info and finding likeminded pals and before there was a good bit of conservative activism thrown in too
But the rest is just online posting bravado and smack talk behind the wall of anonymity
Very few folks here give a frame of reference like I do or you do on your homepage
The more coarse and nasty they are the less they give up about what they are
That’s not a coincidence
Nice to see you
No, don’t discount all of it as just bravado and smack talk. There are some genuine ideological underpinnings to it all, reflecting folks’ views of how the country and the culture operates. It’s interesting stuff to vent over.
Personally, as I now see a country I no longer recognize nor feel any particular connection to, I do reflect back a lot on the history of how and why so much of the nation was strong and secure. And more and more, I come to the conclusion it didn’t have as much to do with the Constitution or the Bill of Rights or the rule of law, but the fact that people were violent hardasses who did everything they could to protect their immediate communities. Technology and the media have long since driven the predominant cultural mindset away from ‘community’ into national/global worldviews, but I still like to vicariously interpret scenarios the way my take-no-guff ancestors did. Because I know in the long run, they had the right keys to survival.
It really sucks that the Cossacks used this normally mellow meeting of every other month for 18 years as their place to stand up to the Bandidos.
It has hurt riders/bikers all over the world due to the perceived narrative given by the police in this case. Maybe this will help clear those not involved so they can be let out of jail and get their bikes back
"Cochran said the Cossacks have never been part of the COC&I organization but about 60 showed up on their bikes. “They rode en masse to that meeting for the sole purpose of creating some kind of trouble,” he said. “Their intentions were not saintly. . . . If they had not showed up there, we wouldn’t be discussing this now.” Cochran said in the past nine months or so, Cossacks have been harassing other motorcycle clubs. “They have been rolling around trying to intimidate people and tell people they own this town, and that we’re not allowed to ride here,” he said."
http://www.wacotrib.com/news/twin-peaks-biker-shooting/only-of-slain-in-twin-peaks-shootout-from-waco-witnesses/article_04745208-8210-54cd-811c-2989f0447951.html
Supposedly a vehicle ran over someone's foot. That issue carried into the bathroom where it escalated then they took it outside into the parking lot where it escalated even more.
Bear in mind this all happened about 12:15. The meeting was not due to start until 1:00.