Posted on 06/19/2015 10:00:17 AM PDT by don-o
MCLENNAN COUNTY - Law enforcement officials from across the country met at McLennan Community College for four days for a private conference about policing the growth of motorcycle gangs.
The conference, put on by the Midwest Outlaw Motorcycle Gang Investigators Association out of St. Louis, MO, was scheduled before the Twin Peaks shooting May 17 after investigators saw rising tensions between motorcycle gangs on the rise in Central Texas.
"We do a considerable amount of talking about these confederations and coalitions... and try to make them understand a little bit the motives behind these is other than what they advertise," MOMGIA Executive Director, Steve Cook said.
Cook, who's gone undercover with motorcycle gangs in the past, agreed to allow News Channel 25 to report on the conference, but only until after it was over. This was to protect the identities of officers still undercover.
Behind locked doors, officers learned how motorcycle gangs operate, often dealing in drug and human trafficking. Gangs often transport and sell methamphetamine and have a structure similar to military or para-military organizations. Cook said they've seen an influx of gang members that are also a part of motorcycle clubs and club confederations.
"They're absolutely gangs. If you're wearing a 1-percent diamond and you're associating with the individuals these people and associating with the kinds of activities they are, they're a gang by any classification and to take it a step further, they're organized crime," Cooks said.
Cook said nothing much changed in what the officers were learning in the four day long classes because of the Twin Peaks shooting. He said the shooting is just the latest in a long line of biker gang related incidents across the country.
"It's rampant. They're spreading all across the country, all over the world for that matter...You're either going to pay attention to these guys or you're going to ignore them," Cook said.
Your remark is a Non Sequitur as far as I can determine.
“About time the outlaw biker gangs realized that!”
Good point as their entire purpose is to be outside and above the law.
Really? I think it would take some effort to think of something that has no relation to the 1st Amendent.
“What about outlaw musicians? Should Willie Nelson be in jail?”
Surely you jest.
“What about outlaw musicians? Should Willie Nelson be in jail?”
Dude ... There is just a little more than a small difference in changing a music style compared to killing.
“What about the The Outlaws? “
It’s hard to be an outlaw ... when the only friends that are left are behind that swinging door ...
Killings have evidence.
Declaring oneself an outlaw, well, what boy previous to 1980 never assumed that role when playing cops and robbers or Cowboys and Indians. What crime is committed by doing that?
“Then you agree, wearing a patch (1st amendment) is legal under U.S. law.”
Legal but could get you killed in Texas if you don’t pay the Bandidos first.
“Killings have evidence.”
Sometimes yes, sometimes not.
Check out 68! Now he compares the Bandidos to little boys role playing.
This gets stranger by the post.
If you have difficulty with analogy and metaphor we are not communicating at the same level. That means when I write things, you do not understand what I've written. If I respond to you hereafter, it will be with statements reflecting whatever logical fallacy you are currently expounding.
The thing that makes such a wild idea plausible is that these supposed hard-ass seasoned Bandidos just pulled in past about a half dozen marked cop cars. The Cossacks were waiting, rarin' to rumble. In plain view of a very large police presence in a busy public Sunday business venue.
Photos make it pretty clear there were some undercover Cossacks and maybe undercover Bandidos. Still haven't found any source of Cossacks' supposed criminality except from "gang experts."
“whatever logical fallacy you are currently expounding’
Huh? I merely expounded on the OMC gangs should learn they are not above the law. You have a problem with that?
“If you have difficulty with analogy and metaphor we are not communicating at the same level. “
Like I said, it is sick to compare OMC gangs to little boys role playing.
Sick, Sick, Sick
My remarks exactly when this all came down, rather be in a fox hole with some of them, then the ones who are trying to smear them.
“Why would a St. Louis, MO association set up a national conference in Waco, TX?”
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Yes, this whole thing is getting “curiouser and curiouser”. St. Louis is about 750 driving miles (about a 12 hour drive) from Waco.
And most folk don’t think of Waco as “Mid-West”! So the following sentence from the article is, IMHO, bizarre at best:
“Midwest Outlaw Motorcycle Gang Investigators Association out of St. Louis, MO, was scheduled before the Twin Peaks shooting May 17 after investigators saw rising tensions between motorcycle gangs on the rise in Central Texas.”
So this “Midwest” Investigators Association “booked” this conference BEFORE the Twin Peaks shooting on May 17? That’s interesting...just as it is interesting that a large federal, state and local law enforcement presence was “pre-positioned” at Twin Peaks on May 17.
So why would this St. Louis, MO association set up this conference in Waco, Texas? Perhaps at the suggestion & under the coordinated planning of Obama’s DOJ agencies such as BATF.
“Nine bikers killed. Nine church goers killed. Does this make the police who did the shooting as guilty as the crazy guy?”
Dude ... The bikers started the shooting, not the cops.
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Ahhh...Dude....post a link to your EVIDENCE showing this instead of simply putting it out there. Oh, that’s right, the Waco and Federal authorities are not releasing any of that evidence (such as security video, dash cam video and cell phone video-—all of which they have conveniently confiscated and are “securing” in their custody.
“So this “Midwest” Investigators Association “booked” this conference BEFORE the Twin Peaks shooting on May 17? “
Whe the IA booked their conference the Bandidos meeting was scheduled to be held in Austin. Did the Bandidos do this knowing about the Investigators Association conference?
“Ahhh...Dude....post a link to your EVIDENCE showing this instead of simply putting it out there.”
https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=waco+eywitness
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