That's one war I'm going to keep ducking away from.
(careful what you say, someone may misconstrue it)
I refuse to participate if it comes to irrational bang-bang. That sort of thing would not help.
But I will sound off about the need to oppose unbridled exercise of goobermint power, as long as I can still do that.
What impressed me most deeply in what you wrote: While white-bread work-a-day joes who are club members of "Scimitars" and/or Cossacks, both organizations which are generally not known for being "organized crime", or to operate as criminal "gang", may still be sitting in jail a month later?
That is the crux of the whole thing. It looks to me like some Texans, a range of Harley mates, maybe not angels but decent guys, maybe a little shady, maybe with a few DUIs or weapons "crimes" among them, want to belong together in a club and ride in Texas with a certain patch on their vests, for which Bandidos chase them down and harass them. The police won't stop the Bandidos, so ... isn't this a free country? Doesn't a group of guys have that right? Yes, it does. So from the gate, the whole premise is an admitted failure of law enforcement.
But on a larger scale, it is about a demographic of a unique American phenomenon that hit DC by the hundreds of thousands, if not more than a million, on 9-11 in 2013, ticked off. Those were real people of all colors and types, lots of Veterans, all nomad-type spirits even the Weekend Bikers -- all united and ticked off.
Who knows how many times bikers have thundered through D.C. and the MSM has never told us about it, or downplayed it? We really have no idea.
Then just for grins, there's this tidbit about Cossack KC Massey, apparently a felon (for what it doesn't say), had earlier put together an armed contingent to patrol some private property on the border that was a smuggling corridor in human and drug trafficking. It worked. Then "ATF agents filed the charge of felon in possession of a firearm against Massey following a shooting incident involving a Border Patrol Agent who fired five shots at an armed member of Massey's contingent, and missed. The Cameron County Sheriff could find no violatin of the law, but confiscated the weapons carried by Massey's men." He'll be standing trial with jury selection starting July 28.