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IMO, sometimes trolls can be used to good ends, and I think you both do it pretty well. It's the ones who are so "grown up" and trying to sound old and reasonable that get me. I was halfway laughing, halfway steaming, when one wrote to me: "I am heartened to hear of your disgust for the Bandidos."

All you can do is shake your head quit while you're ahead! {^)

Don-o, the cops sitting in their cars ... what were they doing there in the first place? With six marked cars on the scene, past which the motoring Bandidos rode on their way to the "shootout" that apparently "everyone" knew was coming, only moments before they "skinned those smokewagons" and went to town? Flat-footed cops at best. The result was the financial ruin of who knows how many decent Americans whose only crime was being there, dressed a legal way on a legal vehicle in a public place.

The first successful step had been made toward conditioning Americans to tolerate the criminalization of Harley riders in America. Police forces and media are together conditioning people to accept it, or at least they're trying to.

And one FReeper who is such a let-down ... says the story is becoming a non-story because "cooler heads" have prevailed. When America has FRiends like that ...