Posted on 05/20/2015 10:10:09 AM PDT by bgill
Bullets ricocheted around the parking lot of Twin Peaks, the Waco restaurant where a motorcycle gang shootout left nine dead, just minutes after Theron Rhoten pulled in on his vintage Harley chopper for a regional motorcycle club meeting, according to Rhoten’s wife. Katie Rhoten told The Associated Press that her husband ran for cover and was later arrested, along with antique motorcycle enthusiast friends and other “nonviolent, noncriminal people.” Authorities swept up around 170 bikers who had descended on the restaurant for what one club member described as a gathering to discuss laws protecting motorcycle riders.... McLennan County Sheriff Parnell McNamara and Waco police Sgt. W. Patrick Swanton declined to comment Tuesday on allegations that innocent bikers were arrested.
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No, but you sure got things confused, if you have been on the thread all day then you know that you guys got confused.
You jumped off on an uniformed posters incorrect post, to make statements about something totally unrelated to it, and to anything of mine.
Your complaints are about people siding with the cops, so it seems like you should have chosen one of those posts, or posters, as your jump off point.
I was replying to the previous poster, regarding what he said and what I had observed the last few days. I was not referring to anyone.
Thanks, made me relax and wish I was there.
Been real for a while, my friend.
This particular one showed too much of their hand.
But you (and a host of others on this site seem so focused on the 1% crowd, you are ignoring the other 99%.
Been a lot of that around here lately, whether the rush to judgement (the local Olympic sport) is over 'urban culture', motorcycles, or railroad engineers, and it serves the purpose of giving people a knee-jerk excuse to ignore the actual events and hang their hooks into a stereotype.
So much for "Truth, justice, and the American Way".
There are a few things that get lost in the other Olympic sport here, (jumping to conclusions), like the fact that you are innocent until proven guilty, that you have the Right to not be deprived of life, liberty , or property without due process of law, and the animosity toward the whole mentality of "it is okay when WE do it" that Liberals have. That goes out the window if the alleged evildoers are the ones WE despise.
That, FRiend is no better than the Liberals, it isn't the stuff Constitutional Republics are made of, it isn't "Conservative", it is just a different flavor of jacxkboots in the face.
One of the things I have loved in the past about this site is the ability of people here to see through the press presentation of this person as saintly and that person as 'evil' and cut to the chase--to peel aside the media window dressing and sensationalism designed to sell ad space, papers, and soap, and get to the facts. Sadly, the noise to signal ratio has gone off the charts lately.
What other groups of Americans will FReepers advocate be summarily executed by the police? Or left in the ditch to die for just driving down the road?
If it was a shootout with the police, where are the shot-up police vehicles, the wounded policemen? Nope. We have braying asses here ignoring the 99%ers who were in attendance, too, and calling for shooting people driving down the road because it would be blamed on 'gang violence' (just to purge the gene pool or somesuch).
There is nothing Conservative about that, it is just another flavor of the totalitarianism we all claim to despise. But maybe 'it's okay when we do it'?
Hmmmm. That sounds familiar.
Some of the finest people I have met, I met while riding. I'd trust them to watch my kids before a lot of "respectable" people in suits, because they have a sense of Honor--something most of the population just doesn't get. I have talked with US Senators, Representatives, State legislators, Governors, and even a couple of Nobel Prize winners in my travels, but the people I'd really count on when the chips are down are those whose word is their bond. I have met far more folks like that wearing leathers than suits, and many of them are veterans. That a few have chosen a criminal life, well, that is something easy to point at. For the criminal element of the 1%, there is at least a fundamental honesty in them proclaiming their affiliations, so unlike the thieves who dress 'well', hold themselves up to be respectable, hide behind lawyers, and smile for the cameras.
It has been explained on one of the threads here the origin of the 1% term, the absence of affiliation with the AMA making them "outlaw", and doubtless reality TV has gone a long way to glorifying any criminal activity present. Which plays back to the stereotypes...
The overwhelming majority of Bikers are not criminals.
I find myself living in that “steep-sided unreality” Ian Anderson spoke of.
[It’s a real life ripe dead certainty]
ok...maybe just close to perfect.
Good enough. Salute
Agreed.
Well said.
Than you.
Thank you for your response.
First they came for the murderers.
Then they came for the drug dealers.
Then the came for the pedophiles.
Then the came for the rapists.
Then they came for the terrorists.
And then American became a pretty decent place.
There are some on this forum that believe and advocate that the police be allowed to kill you at and on their whim.
You forgot hunters.
What they refuse to grasp is those same jackboot wearers will, given the opportunity, mistreat them.
If they had ben the Crips and Bloods, the police would not have opened fire on them.
I get the same feeling.
That is because it is not right.
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