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4 Reasons that Waco Biker Gang Shootout Reflects Badly on Police
Reason ^ | June 2, 2015 | Brian Doherty

Posted on 06/03/2015 8:48:50 AM PDT by don-o

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To: ifinnegan
I can no more accept the claim that all these arrested bikers are guilty than the claim that they are all innocent and being railroaded. There is no way for me to know either is the case, nor for anyone else commenting on this issue here.

What say you about the bikers who were arrested not at Twin Peaks but near the Convention Center and gassing up at a truck stop? Three of them were initially given a lower bond so were able to pay out and go home. The DA got hyper and demanded Peterson revoke the lower bonds and up them to the blanket $1M. The guys turned themselves back in.

81 posted on 06/03/2015 1:30:26 PM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "we still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: bgill

Considering the magnitude of the problems happening with the Meth gangs, Cartels, and border jumpers, Texas is pretty much on their own.

The Banditos and the Mongols in one place.

On the face of it and until I know different, I’m not second guessing the cops. They’ve got enough problems as it is.

How many guns were confiscated? 125+??


82 posted on 06/03/2015 1:31:28 PM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie
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To: Texas Fossil

Good post


83 posted on 06/03/2015 1:37:35 PM PDT by Osage Orange (I have strong feelings about gun control. If there's a gun around, I want to be controlling it.)
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To: CivilWarBrewing
Perhaps the whole thing was a precursor to Jade Helm

It's a short 2 hour drive from Waco (right next to Ft. Hood) to Brenham where Jade Helm is being staged. And Twin Peaks just happened to have occurred when the Legislature was voting on open carry.

84 posted on 06/03/2015 1:37:43 PM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "we still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: ImJustAnotherOkie

Probably all they planted.


85 posted on 06/03/2015 2:00:44 PM PDT by sport
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To: ImJustAnotherOkie
How many guns were confiscated? 125+??

And your point is....?

86 posted on 06/03/2015 2:30:18 PM PDT by don-o (He will not share His glory and He will NOT be mocked! Blessed be the name of the Lord forever!)
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To: Prolixus; Travis McGee
Thanks for keeping this topic alive.

I agree with Travis who called this the "most important story in the country".

87 posted on 06/03/2015 2:32:47 PM PDT by don-o (He will not share His glory and He will NOT be mocked! Blessed be the name of the Lord forever!)
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To: ImJustAnotherOkie

I think you ought to change your screen name to ImJustAnotherDupe.


88 posted on 06/03/2015 3:19:01 PM PDT by Finny (Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path. -- Psalm 119:105)
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To: BlueDragon; skeeter; don-o; All
See "Stage 1" of post 33. I believe that accounts for at least some if not many of those voices here, I am sad to say, and it is something I would not have believed five years ago. I used to laugh at the idea. I am older, wiser, and have read a lot more of Free Republic now.

I am happy to say, however, that the TOTAL I've been able to find at this point of voices who buy the LEO spiel, number only 21. Twenty-one individuals so far, in posts covering the past few weeks on this topic, versus EASILY 60 individuals who are like skeeter, me, and don-o, who think this stinks. HAPPILY, it's about the same outside of FR, when you look at reader/consumer comments on posting forums of virtually every MSM (not "conservative," but regular-joe-type local and national) news site.

People who insist on thinking the majority of people (not just FReepers) are "conspiracy theorists" for processing the facts and concluding that the cops were WAY out of line and obviously lying, are ... suspect at best, traitors at worst, and ABSOLUtELY a small minority. A loud, determined, and organized one perhaps, but in real people, a decided minority.

89 posted on 06/03/2015 3:35:36 PM PDT by Finny (Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path. -- Psalm 119:105)
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To: Triple

Sorry ... forgot to ping you to my post 89 above RE your excellent post 33.


90 posted on 06/03/2015 3:38:17 PM PDT by Finny (Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path. -- Psalm 119:105)
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To: Finny
I believe in law and order, but c'mon.

For example, I think the police should've cracked a few heads in Baltimore to get things under control. But I do NOT think it would've be copacetic for them to open fire on the rioters, as they apparently did in Waco.

Its pretty elementary. I don't understand why any thinking individual wouldn't feel the same.

91 posted on 06/03/2015 3:42:41 PM PDT by skeeter
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To: don-o

How about 175 still jailed. No medication. Some not having eaten for 10 days (at that time).

The McLennan County Re-Education Camp
http://bikersofamerica.blogspot.com/2015/05/the-mclennan-county-re-education-camp.html

This has to come from the WH. Kill Whitey.


92 posted on 06/03/2015 3:42:48 PM PDT by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spiritui Sancto!)
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To: MrEdd; ImJustAnotherOkie; All
...any idiot who assumes that everyone riding motorcycles and wearing denim or leather clothing covered in patches is a criminal has zero business in law enforcement, legal practice, or the judiciary. Now, members of the public with ignorance or phobias of this sort are just annoying.

Yep -- but they are also dangerous because they have allowed themselves to be conditioned to look the other way at abuses of power such as this.

93 posted on 06/03/2015 3:45:29 PM PDT by Finny (Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path. -- Psalm 119:105)
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To: MrEdd

LOL!!!


94 posted on 06/03/2015 3:46:22 PM PDT by Finny (Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path. -- Psalm 119:105)
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To: don-o
I have time on my hands these days, so I choose to use a great deal of it in this matter.

IMO, you are using it WELL. Thank you for your many good posts and links on this. I think this is a far, far more profound and significant event in America than folks recognize. This is not just cops screwing up royally and trying to cover their butts, which would be bad enough.

THIS looks a lot to me like honing a template that demonizes a huge number of Americans (Harley riders who look like they could be outlaws but who come from all walks of life and lack criminal records), conditioning the MSM and the general public to consider cops "good guys" when they exercise tyranny over free peaceful law-abiding Americans.

The good news is that truly, it looks like the general public ain't buyin' it.

95 posted on 06/03/2015 3:57:06 PM PDT by Finny (Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path. -- Psalm 119:105)
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To: Texas Fossil

I am beginning to think there may have been some collusion between the WACO PD and the Banditos. How else do we explain 8 dead Cossacks vs. 1 dead Bandito? I would like to know how many Banditos are in jail and just how high up they are in the organization.


96 posted on 06/03/2015 3:58:52 PM PDT by Jay Redhawk (Oh crap!)
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To: Prolixus
Another core question: How is it that out of 170 supposedly criminal biker types, only a third have criminal records in Texas?

Was the meeting of criminals dominated two-to-one by out-of-state bikers who have arrest records in other states?

Or does an overwhelming majority of crime-committing bikers who engage in robbery, meth running, racketeering, and murder, have zero criminal records?

Or did the cops just arrest people with zero foundation other than that they ride motorcycles and were attending a pre-announced publicized meeting in a public restaurant?

This isn't rocket science. But it is a revealer of wheat from chaff, in terms of fellow patriots.

97 posted on 06/03/2015 4:07:57 PM PDT by Finny (Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path. -- Psalm 119:105)
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To: Finny

The Mongols and the Bandito’s? Try again.

This had nothing to do with the average joe. This was more like the Apalachin Meeting in the 1950’s.


98 posted on 06/03/2015 4:08:45 PM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie
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To: bgill

“What say you about the bikers who were arrested not at Twin Peaks but near the Convention Center and gassing up at a truck stop?” etc...

I could not possibly have an informed opinion on these specific bikers, or the DA calling them back as it were for a higher bail, and in fact am only taking your word there are three such cases.


99 posted on 06/03/2015 4:13:38 PM PDT by ifinnegan
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To: skeeter
Yep. But I kinda don't think they opened fire -- I think they had snipers ready and individuals scoped out.

Action in Balitmore would have been about keeping the peace and protecting lives and property.

This thing in Waco I think was about intimidation, corruption, and power-grabbing.

100 posted on 06/03/2015 4:14:13 PM PDT by Finny (Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path. -- Psalm 119:105)
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