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Leaked Report Profiles Military, Police Members of Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs
The Intercept ^ | 5/22/2015 | Jana Winter and Jordan Smith

Posted on 05/23/2015 5:30:48 PM PDT by PapaBear3625

Nuclear power plant technicians, senior military officers, FBI contractors and an employee of “a highly-secretive Department of Defense agency” with a Top Secret clearance. Those are just a few of the more than 100 people with sensitive military and government connections that law enforcement is tracking because they are linked to “outlaw motorcycle gangs.”

A year before the deadly Texas shootout that killed nine people on May 17, a lengthy report by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives detailed the involvement of U.S. military personnel and government employees in outlaw motorcycle gangs, or OMGs. A copy of the report was obtained by The Intercept.

The report lays out, in almost obsessive detail, the extent to which OMG members are represented in nearly every part of the military, and in federal and local government, from police and fire departments to state utility agencies. Specific examples from the report include dozens of Defense Department contractors with Secret or Top Secret clearances; multiple FBI contractors; radiological technicians with security clearances; U.S. Department of Homeland Security employees; Army, Navy and Air Force active-duty personnel, including from the special operations force community; and police officers.

(Excerpt) Read more at firstlook.org ...


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KEYWORDS: bikers; copcycle; criminals; motorcyclegangs; waco; wacobikers
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To: TexasGator

“But in any case, based solely upon your postings in this thread, you are among the last I’d say was a “regular guy”.”

If, by what you mean is a regular guy, is one who is either in a MC gang or supports a MC gang, then I have to default to not being a ‘regular guy’.
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Nah, to me a “regular guy” would be a non-jerk, non-ass-hole.


221 posted on 05/24/2015 12:45:42 PM PDT by House Atreides (CRUZ or lose!)
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To: mac_truck; Salamander

I avoid communicating with d-bags especially when they don’t know what they’re talking about. You seem reasonable so I don’t mind talking with you.

The troll knows nothing about PGR patches and instead believes everything it reads online.

PGR patches are pretty much the same nation wide although some will have minor differences such as naming their region. PGR does not use a rocker. If a patch is worn on the back it’s a large PGR triangle.


222 posted on 05/24/2015 12:46:19 PM PDT by Rides_A_Red_Horse (Why do you need a fire extinguisher when you can call the fire department?)
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To: Salamander

As governments have gotten less and less accountable, the answer isn’t what it would be 40 years ago.


223 posted on 05/24/2015 12:46:26 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: House Atreides

There is a peculiar, disquieting desperation when someone invests days and hundreds of posts, pushing a certain “reality” down the throats of those who will not swallow it, blindly.

It’s hard to not keep asking yourself “Why?”


224 posted on 05/24/2015 12:46:32 PM PDT by Salamander (Like acid and oil on a madman's face, reason tends to fly away.)
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To: TexasGator

You would be an informant... they know you.


225 posted on 05/24/2015 12:46:49 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: TexasGator

Bless your naive little heart.


226 posted on 05/24/2015 12:47:23 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

Or even 10 years ago.


227 posted on 05/24/2015 12:48:28 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

LOL


228 posted on 05/24/2015 12:49:13 PM PDT by Salamander (Like acid and oil on a madman's face, reason tends to fly away.)
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To: Salamander

It feeds on attention so starve it.


I am. Have you noticed they sound like Jr High kids? “You have homo!”

One claims to have served in a “war zone.” I know a lot of combat vets. None of them sound like prepubescent snot nosed brats.


229 posted on 05/24/2015 12:49:25 PM PDT by Rides_A_Red_Horse (Why do you need a fire extinguisher when you can call the fire department?)
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To: House Atreides

I guess you also believed that Benghazi was the result of a spontaneous reaction to an anti-Muslim video that few had seen or had even heard of.


Remember how the media and elected officials claimed Brown had his “hands up don’t shoot?” They also claimed Zimmerman stalked St Trayvon Skittles.

We certainly have our share of useful idiots.


230 posted on 05/24/2015 12:52:26 PM PDT by Rides_A_Red_Horse (Why do you need a fire extinguisher when you can call the fire department?)
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To: Rides_A_Red_Horse

The other claims to have ridden Harleys when they were steam powered.

It’s a crazy world.

:)


231 posted on 05/24/2015 12:52:55 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

From the same source:

But Hundley, the Mexia detective who has gone undercover in biker gangs, said the Bandidos pressure smaller clubs to join the confederation and pay dues to it, which they use for their group. That’s why the Cossacks refused to join the confederation, he said.

“It’s organized crime at its finest,” Hundley said of the Bandidos. The CoCI is “a motorcycle activist group; however, it’s a fine line. It was made by the Bandidos for the Bandidos, and of course they give money to motorcycle rights to make everyone happy and then they’re lining their pockets with it, no doubt.”


232 posted on 05/24/2015 12:53:56 PM PDT by TexasGator
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To: Salamander
It’s hard to not keep asking yourself “Why?”
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I know. This whole Waco fiasco has all the markings of a DOJ/ATF screwup while trying to create an incident that advances the Obama regime's agendas. The stupid Waco police department who, like idiots, apparently allowed themselves to be roped into whatever strange operation was intended are going into post-screw-up cover-up mode. And the Obama Regime's friends in the press are doing all they can to assist in promoting the regime's accompanying narratives and attempts at misdirection.

Down the road I expect they'll be taking the “What difference, at this point, does it make.” bypass. And/or they'll be trying to go back undercover as true constitutional conservatives (which they most definitely are NOT).

233 posted on 05/24/2015 12:55:16 PM PDT by House Atreides (CRUZ or lose!)
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To: TexasGator

Mexia? One of those cities that they used to go Saaaa-LUTE to on Hee-Haw?


234 posted on 05/24/2015 12:55:54 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: Rides_A_Red_Horse

We certainly have our share of useful idiots.
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I agree...as well as our share of saboteurs & trolls.


235 posted on 05/24/2015 12:56:44 PM PDT by House Atreides (CRUZ or lose!)
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To: Salamander

they simply “ride their motorcycle” wherever and whenever they feel like it, nor do they need to be told what “uniform” to wear when they do.


Some of my area PGR members ride wearing overalls. Each individual wears patches that mean something to them. Every rider receives a star from a retired flag and they’re encouraged to wear it on their vest/jacket/whatever.

What’s your experience?


236 posted on 05/24/2015 12:58:08 PM PDT by Rides_A_Red_Horse (Why do you need a fire extinguisher when you can call the fire department?)
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To: House Atreides

On the internet, nobody knows you’re a dog.

Or a mole.


237 posted on 05/24/2015 12:58:30 PM PDT by Salamander (Like acid and oil on a madman's face, reason tends to fly away.)
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To: House Atreides

How common is it to have a brawl break out at a CoC meeting? Let alone snipers?

Even if there is a double cross story, I wonder who played the role of “chief priests” here.


238 posted on 05/24/2015 12:58:41 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: TexasGator

Link to a post where you listed the caveats I posted from the article.


239 posted on 05/24/2015 1:01:08 PM PDT by Pelham (The refusal to deport is defacto amnesty)
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To: Salamander

On the internet, nobody knows you’re a dog.

Or a mole.
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Tru dat. But they frequently let off a detectable, foul odor. I’ve been catching whiffs of that odor throughout this thread.


240 posted on 05/24/2015 1:01:57 PM PDT by House Atreides (CRUZ or lose!)
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