This is where Civil Servants prove themselves a class of Americans with totally different rights than the rest of us.
They get to punish us first, and if they were wrong, answer for it later (if ever). As will happen here when the 177 cases finally get to court three or four years from now, in 2017-2018.
Then maybe "we" can dole punishment to them for the crime of permanently severely damaging the finances and reputations of probably more than 117 law-abiding free Americans who love to ride big bikes on America's roads.
Too late, done deal. Mission accomplished by May 18, if that was the mission.
There are people who actually believe that if a guy in a club is wearing a 13 patch diamond or some damned thing, it means that he lives by dealing drugs, as sure as you're born, that it's a big conspiracy among bikers, a code, but the cops are wise, and so is Sons of Anarchy and the MSM, and they all say that's what the patch means.
How is it that people are hearing and believing that kind of extreme poppycock, and why?
Bikers are an American icon. They represent the rebel, the societal outlaw, independent, self-sufficient. Plus the big bikes are plain fun, and America has great roads. Veterans and adventurous types take to biking. A lot of patriotic folks are bikers.
This Waco thing scares me because the very Judicial Rope A Dope you identify is what fuels it, and that's trouble.
I agree with you Finny. And that’s what originally interested me in the issue. I could give a flip about Bandidos. But I know more than a few Patriot Guard or Legion rider types.
It is very educational. Your average Joe gets to witness not only the outcome of a major LEO operation gone seriously awry, but also law enforcement and the judicial system’s corrupt gamesmanship and cover-up, all leaving a wake of destruction, and the perception is that none of them really give a rat’s behind.
I think the LEO “brand” is quietly suffering serious damage among people who have been and would otherwise be supportive. People are watching, and they know that many clubs they might belong to, like hunting and gun clubs, could be taken out in a similar fashion in some future administration. I have an informal goal to share this site with at least one person every day - http://www.policemisconduct.net/
That’s why the Gator types serve a purpose here. Their statements strike me, and apparently many others, as those of the prototypical degenerate sadist LEO who enjoy and perhaps delight in the suffering of others, even the innocents.
Great educational stuff.