In fact, the ONLY ones telling you they're not, are "police gang experts," and at that, they only started telling you they weren't AFTER May 17 -- up to that point, the ONLY reference to Cossacks that I can find at all EXCEPT for a Cossack-led armed and hired private patrol at the border on private property to halt illegal drug running and immigrants (work which the Border Patrol was failing miserably), have to do with their being subject to assault and attack by Bandidos while engaging in legal behavior. That is: riding their bikes on public roadways where they please wearing a sign that says "Texas" on their vests -- the last time I looked, any American with a drivers' license has that right.
What you REALLY mean is that because you disapprove of bikers who look/dress "tough" as you see them in TV shows and movies, and because you are convinced that police cannot catch these obvious criminals in the act of committing crimes, you want to deprive others of their God-given American right to associate with whomever they please, peacefully, civilly, freely. As long as they are not engaged in actual crime, there is a right to free association. YOU want to restrict that right because you disapprove of anyone associating with people YOU think are "bad."
What you really are about is limiting peoples' right to free association. That is what this whole Waco thing is about, as well. RESTRICTING THE RIGHT OF FREE ASSOCIATION. You think that if someone is a little shady, a lot shady, or has a record of criminal behavior, then others should be deprived of their right to associate with them.
THAT is what you are advocating: depriving people of the right to free association. You dress it up in a different costume, but that is all and only what this is about: depriving people of their right to free association because you disapprove of their choice of associates.
One of many keys to try to understand this.
Another is to look at Texas Gang Threat Assessment for both what is NOT in it (any mention of Cossacks) and what IS in it (Bandidos listed as middling Tier 2 (of 3) group as to threat level.
Bandidos did not even rate a mention in the 2013 takedowns that were successful.
(U) Tier 2: Bandidos Outlaw Motorcycle Gang (U) Formed in the 1960s, t he Bandidos Outlaw Motorcycle Gang (Bandidos OMG ) conducts its illegal activities as covertly as possible an d avoids high - profile activities such as drive - by shootings that ma ny street gangs tend to commit. However, m embers are not covert about making their presence known by wearing t he gang colors, insignia , and riding in large groups. They seek to turn publi c sentiment in their favor by organi zing frequent charity runs. Bandidos are likely to focus on recruiting new members with no criminal history