Posted on 05/21/2015 5:37:51 AM PDT by Jack Black
The bloody incident at Waco’s Twin Peaks restaurant was not a “biker shootout.” At present there is no evidence that any of the nine victims were killed by fellow bikers, rather than being “taken out” by the scores of police — including snipers — who had effectively turned the parking lot into a kill zone.
The Twin Peaks Massacre has prompted the predictable outpouring of state-centered outrage over the purported threat posed by Outlaw Motorcycle Clubs (OMCs). Buried beneath the blizzard of re-purposed official press releases is a critical disclosure made by former FBI undercover operative John Matthews: During the 1990s, as part of the FBI’s PATCON (Patriot Conspiracy) operation, Matthews and his handler, Donald Jarrett, sold illegally converted full-auto machine guns to narcotics-dealing motorcycle gangs. (I first reported about this in early March.) This was done through one of the firearms stores later forced by the ATF into participating in the “Fast & Furious” gun-walking scandal, in which firearms of that kind were provided to operatives of Mexican criminal cartels.
“As we talk of gun control … over the years [of] how many cases of sporterized SKS, AK47s, and SKSs were sold to groups and case after case of ammo for them all with the blessings of the FBI & ATF with no paper work,” Matthews wrote in a November 8, 2014 email (lightly edited here for spelling and grammar). “Also let’s not forget the AR15s, they were made full auto from the Lone Wolf gun store back in the 90s by a guy brought in by the FBI for me to put in place. Those guns went to bikers who were sell[ing] drugs on the border. Those drugs were [believed] to be coming in from China.”
In March 2013 correspondence with Jarrett, Matthews referred to the David Mann, the dealer brought in by the FBI to broker the firearms transaction with the biker gang.
“I [would] pick him up in Payson, AZ on our way up to Surplus & Stuff in Snowflake … and met with a guy name[d] Tim,” Matthews recalled in a March 28, 2013 email to Jarrett. “He [would] show him his weapons that he was making and how he could make them anything they wanted. Then from there we took a trip up to where the guy [kept] the tractors that we were thinking the dope was coming in from.”
The tractors were apparently being used as part of an international narcotics smuggling operation.
During the trip recalled by Matthews, he and David Mann met with another individual who “ran the church and we [thought was] selling the drugs to the bikers. We were going to get David to sell weapons too [sic] them. This trip was where [I] got David in with this [sic] guys so I could move on. Does this sound right to you[?] Also have more info on him and [meetings] at gun store (Lone Wolf) and other places like Scottsdale, before we turn[ed] him loose.”
“Yes, that sounds absolutely correct about David,” Jarrett replied the following day. “I only introduced you to one guy that work[ed] with guns, and that was David.”
On March 2 I sent a letter to the Justice Department’s Office of Inspector General requesting an investigation of Matthews’ confirmed claims about the FBI’s role in arming biker gangs. A week later I received an official reply that tacitly validated those claims while dismissing them as inconsequential: “The Investigations Division of the Office of the Inspector General has thoroughly reviewed your allegations and concluded that the issues raised do not warrant an investigation by this office.”
Salt Lake City attorney Jesse Trentadue, who has been investigating the death of his brother Kenneth in FBI custody following the 1995, following the 1995 Oklahoma City Bombing, has been responsible for nearly all of the key disclosures regarding the PATCON program. This was an effort by the FBI to infiltrate so-called Radical Right groups with informants and provocateurs. In a telephone interview, Trentadue told me that he firmly believes that there is a connection between the PATCON-related FBI initiative to arm biker gangs, and the bloodshed in Waco over the weekend.
“At the very least, we’re dealing with part of the legacy of PATCON,” Trentadue declared.
PATCON wasn’t the FBI’s only means of infiltrating OMCs. In 2004, James “Pagan Ronnie” Howerton, a prominent member of the Pagans OMC and a convicted murderer, was recruited by the FBI. He eventually became the club’s sergeant-at-arms. Five years later, the Feds breathlessly announced that with the help of their undercover asset they had compiled a massive indictment against the Pagans as an interstate criminal conspiracy. That bloated indictment eventually deflated into a small number of relatively trivial charges against specific members of the club. The interstate “criminal enterprise” was reduced to the accusation that the Pagans had committed a federal offense by running a raffle.
The only notable violent crime arising from the federal investigation of the Pagans was the police murder of Iraq combat veteran Derek Hale, who was tasered a dozen times and then murdered, execution-style, by Lt. William Brown of the Wilmington, Delaware Police Department. Hale, who was killed in front of the wife and children of a friend from the club, had no criminal record, nor was he a criminal suspect. He died because the State’s officially licensed gang decided to wage an indiscriminate war on the motorcycle club to which he belonged — which, in all probability, is what happened in Waco over the weekend.
“Now, which ‘evil person’ am I supposed to condemn?”
When a club has the logo ‘Expect No Mercy’ ...
And go back and read what I really said.
What in the world are you talking about?
Here’s one of the dead bikers that you’re gloating over. Does this give you more chuckles?
Waco shooting: Purple Heart recipient among nine bikers killed
Me: But he says he only coordinates with them ‘to avoid trouble’.
You: “And go back and read what I really said.”
I think I fairly described what you posted. If not, please correct.
“Here’s one of the dead bikers that you’re gloating over. Does this give you more chuckles?”
You had to just make that up since I have done no ‘gloating’ about their deaths.
Post #5 on THIS THREAD by one TEXASGATOR -
When the SHTF, the bikers ran to the bathroom to hide.
Was that you or the other TexasGator?
This website keeps getting nuttier and nuttier. Let me see if I understand this: because the militarized, sniper-police don’t like bikers they set up an ambush, in broad daylight, at a strip mall restaurant, to go on a biker killing spree. And out of 100’s of bikers they only managed to get what? 8 or 9?
wow
And out of 100’s of bikers they only managed to get what? 8 or 9?
Much to the sorrow of certain biker-hating D-Bags on Free Republic.
Interesting. The National Coalition puts out a statement.
1. Local affiliates are dedicated to ... open and peaceful communications between clubs, conflict mediation. WTH do clubs have to have a coalition inorder to promote peaceful communications unless their basic tenant is NON-PEACEFUL?
2. States that the (Cossacks) showed up with over 50 members and started the attack.
(note: The Texas affiliate state chairman and most local chairmen are Bandidos so we have to take the coalition’s statement with a grain of salt.)
A statement from the National Coalition of Motorcyclists said it and its “local affiliates are dedicated to peacefully promoting and protecting constitutional rights, promoting fair treatment of its members by law enforcement, educating its members on current laws, open and peaceful communications between clubs, conflict mediation, and supporting various charitable endeavors. We are grieving.”
The statement claimed the attacks started when “immediately prior to the start of a Texas affiliate’s monthly meeting, a motorcycle club that was NOT a member of the Confederation of Clubs [thought to be the Cossacks] arrived with over 50 people and attacked members of the Confederation.”
” Let me see if I understand this: because the militarized, sniper-police don’t like bikers they set up an ambush”
The National Coalition of Motorcyclists issued a statement that said it was a group of more than 50 (Cossacks) that started the attack.
They weren't talking about playing pattycake, either. Are you going to condemn the whole state or just everyone who flys that flag?
Who would that be?
Preventing conflicts in scheduling runs, events, etc. Co-ordination. Even bikers does it.
“When the SHTF, the bikers ran to the bathroom to hide.”
Not a personal attack on any FR poster. Just a statement of fact.
A poster had previously stated that bikers never run from danger like us wussies.
“Heck, Virginia has the motto “Sic Semper Tyranis”
They weren’t talking about playing pattycake, either. Are you going to condemn the whole state or just everyone who flys that flag?”
I am sorry. I didn’t know that the Bandidos logo was “Expect No Mercy Toward Tyrants”.
I guess they just shortened it for display on their bikes.
“Preventing conflicts in scheduling runs, events, etc. Co-ordination. Even bikers does it.”
Given that most of the Texas coalition chairmen (state and local) are Bandidos, we know who resolves the conflicts ...
“Preventing conflicts in scheduling runs, events, etc. Co-ordination. Even bikers does it.”
I guess peaceful conflict resolution didn’t happen here since the Cossacks are not a member of the coalition?
“living your life as a 1%er means that mans laws don’t apply to you. only the laws of the brotherhood. the bandidos, mongols, hells angels, outlaws etc are 1% clubs. ALL other clubs must swear allegiance to and support whatever club owns your city or state. these are called supporter clubs. the 666 patch means “anywhere, anytime”. the Expect No Mercy patch, hehe, i’ll let your minds wander on that.”
http://www.getbig.com/boards/index.php?topic=325476.25
Interesting. The National Coalition puts out a statement.
1. Local affiliates are dedicated to ... open and peaceful communications between clubs, conflict mediation. WTH do clubs have to have a coalition inorder to promote peaceful communications unless their basic tenant is NON-PEACEFUL?
2. States that the (Cossacks) showed up with over 50 members and started the attack.
(note: The Texas affiliate state chairman and most local chairmen are Bandidos so we have to take the coalition’s statement with a grain of salt.)
A statement from the National Coalition of Motorcyclists said it and its “local affiliates are dedicated to peacefully promoting and protecting constitutional rights, promoting fair treatment of its members by law enforcement, educating its members on current laws, open and peaceful communications between clubs, conflict mediation, and supporting various charitable endeavors. We are grieving.”
The statement claimed the attacks started when “immediately prior to the start of a Texas affiliate’s monthly meeting, a motorcycle club that was NOT a member of the Confederation of Clubs [thought to be the Cossacks] arrived with over 50 people and attacked members of the Confederation.”
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