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Any late-arriving Bandidos drove right past a whole lotta marked cop cars. And in a sense, even dwelling on it is like missing the forest for the study of the trees. What's at stake here is the fact that 177 people were arrested and held captive for two weeks to a month on million dollar bail, basically for liking Harleys and being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Their reputations and ability to work, pay bills, carry on, have been frozen solid, at a million dollar bond. Two thirds even lack criminal records, let alone serious ones. So far, it seems the only serious records belong to Bandidos.

The cops should be catching criminals who do crimes, not playing the bad boy biker referee in the games clubs play.

It's too late now, in any case. The harm has been done, the die has been cast, the anchor's been thrown. From here on out in America, "bikers" will be monitored and policed, regardless of who or why, and everybody will think everybody else thinks it was necessary, a necessary evil to having a civilized society. After this they will retain that power to destroy the financial and personal lives of anyone they please, in any club they deem to consider a "criminal" or "domestic terror" enterprise.

They've just shown they can do it and how.

Any late-arriving Bandidos drove right past a whole lotta marked cop cars. And in a sense, even dwelling on it is like missing the forest for the study of the trees.

Of course, people come at this from different places with different assumptions and different priorities. I am less interested in the motorcycle club aspect per se than I am in the legal aspect and the actual actions of the police.

Trying to sort out what Cossacks and Bandidos had going on with their relationship has only limited interest to me. And, I believe has only a secondary importance to the larger issues in play. Because, I believer the larger issues are larger by a HUGE factor. And when I read the Waco editorial writer opine:

"The key thing local authorities addressing the Twin Peaks saga should remember is that what transpired May 17; the million-dollar bonds subsequently set; and justifiable questions about due process are altogether unprecedented in this context and scope. How all this is handled by police, the district attorney and the courts will define, possibly for years, not only our criminal justice system but Waco."

well, when I read that I have hope that the larger acpects of this will not get swept under the rug.