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Accused Danced Jig During Slaughter, Trial Told (Jewish biker was told he would be killed last)
Toronto Star ^ | July 18, 2009

Posted on 07/21/2009 11:58:58 AM PDT by nickcarraway

Jewish biker was told he would be killed last so he'd suffer the most, informer testifies

An underworld informer has provided court with macabre details of the night eight biker gang members were shot to death:

Accused murderer Wayne Kellestine danced a jig several times during the slaughter while singing the Nazi national anthem, "Deutschland über alles." Kellestine told a Jewish biker he would be killed last so he would suffer the most. Kellestine also complained about the sheer volume of work involved in carrying out the massacre. The informant, who can only be identified as M.H., was testifying at the first-degree murder trial of Kellestine, 60, and five other men accused of killing eight Greater Toronto members of the Bandidos biker gang in April 2006.

At one point, M.H. sobbed on the witness stand as he described how he refused to shake the hand of one victim just moments before the man was executed.

"He (Frank Salerno) wants me to shake his hand," M.H. said, his voice quavering. "I don't do anything. I don't shake his hand or anything."

M.H. put his head down and cried for more than a minute before continuing. He saw Kellestine lead Salerno, 43, outside the barn near Shedden, Ont., and seconds later, M.H. said, gunshots were heard.

M.H. was inside the barn most of the time but witnessed at least one of the killings outside. He said he held a shotgun during the systematic murders but didn't shoot anyone himself.

The informer also testified that Kellestine complained about the amount of work involved in the massacre.

"He was bitching about having to do all of the wet work."

M.H. was asked by Crown Attorney Tim Zuber to define the term.

"Wet work is in reference to killing somebody," M.H. replied.

M.H. began to cry on the witness stand while he talked about the final moments of Canadian Bandido president John (Boxer) Muscedere, 48.

There was also loud crying from the back of the high-security courtroom, from family members of the murder victims.

Muscedere realized he had been betrayed by his biker brothers, M.H. said, and ordered Kellestine: "Do me. Do me first. I want to go out like a man."

M.H. said that, hours earlier, Muscedere had defended the reputation of Jewish biker Jamie Flanz, 30, when Kellestine had accused Flanz of being a police informer.

"Boxer actually stands up and says, 'He's not a police informer,' " M.H. told court.


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1 posted on 07/21/2009 11:58:59 AM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

Wayne Kellestine complained about the amount of work involved in the massacre of eight bikers, an informer testified at his trial July 17, 2009.

2 posted on 07/21/2009 12:00:50 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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I believe the Nazi anthem was “Horst Wessel,” not “Deutschland über Alles.”


3 posted on 07/21/2009 12:23:24 PM PDT by robertwalker62
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To: nickcarraway

/Amazing how an average ‘human body’ can contain so much evil. . .and still look, ‘human’. There is not only a special place in hell for those who steal lives; there should be an extra special place; here on earth; for those do so with an ambitious and willing hand.


4 posted on 07/21/2009 12:25:03 PM PDT by cricket ('Don't bow for me . . Obama ' (America's 'sorry' President))
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To: nickcarraway

I wonder what his sexual orientation is.....


5 posted on 07/21/2009 12:35:11 PM PDT by thinking
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To: robertwalker62
I believe the Nazi anthem was “Horst Wessel,” not “Deutschland über Alles.”

Quite right!

But I am so accustomed to reading such mistakes in the newspaper that I don't even notice it anymore.

The national anthem of Germany from 1922 till 1933 (Weimar Republic) and from 1933 till 1945 (Nazi Germany) was "Das Lied der Deutschen" (melody by Josef Haydn, lyrics by August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben).

In the first years after World War II, Germany effectively had no national hymn (though Beethoven's "Ode to Joy" was played instead at, e.g., the Olympics).

In 1952, "Das Lied der Deutschen" again became the official national anthem (of the Fed. Republic of Germany), though only the third verse would be sung (it was NEVER illegal to sing all three verses). In 1992, it was decided that the national anthem would consist only of the third verse - but it is still NOT illegal to sing all three.

Regards,

6 posted on 07/21/2009 12:38:05 PM PDT by alexander_busek
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To: thinking
"I wonder what his sexual orientation is....."

Ever see motorcycle gang groupies?

7 posted on 07/21/2009 12:39:24 PM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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To: nickcarraway
Being in the Bandidos and Hell's Angels is a tough life for the bikers and the people they prey on. I never met a bandido that was anything but a criminal and I had a Bandido roommate in high school until I had to kick him out for being a coward, yet wanting to murder the man that embarrassed him.

"The Bandidos are another well-known biker gang based in Texas. However, the Bandidos have clubs installed internationally in major cities in the Americas, Europe and Australia.

The Bandidos have a long a history of fighting within it's ranks, with hostilities originally breaking out between the Australian Bandidos and the U.S. Bandidos. The Australian Bandidos were ex-members of a rough motorcycle gang in Australia called the Comanchero Motorcycle Club.

Their abandonment of the Comancheros to join the Bandidos resulted in a great deal of violence that eventually led to a bloody shoot out in Texas as well as the prison suicide of the Bandido's leader - Snotgrass.

Today the members of the transplanted Australian Comanchero motorcycle gang still maintain a rivalry with the homegrown Bandidos motorcycle gang. The two biker gangs dispute territory as well as try to avenge the murders of the past."

8 posted on 07/21/2009 12:40:04 PM PDT by ansel12 (Romney (guns)"instruments of destruction with the sole purpose of hunting down and killing people")
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To: robertwalker62

The Nazi anthem was the Horst-Wessel Lied (which was really a song lauding the Brownshirts), and the German national anthem was Das Lied der Deutschen (The Song of the Germans), otherwise known as the Deutschlandlied (Germany Song), and sometimes called after its first line, which is Deutschland, Deutschland über Alles (Germany, Germany above All). The words to the anthem were written by August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben in 1841, and set to a tune by Haydn. It was also the anthem of the Weimar Republic, so in no way can be considered distinctively Nazi.

The third verse of the Deutschlandlied is the current, official anthem of reunited Germany.

So whatever this biker-murderer was singing, it was on his part an affectation, having little to do with Germany.


9 posted on 07/21/2009 12:40:50 PM PDT by docbnj
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To: nickcarraway
Paging George Soros...

George Soros, please pick up a white courtesy phone.

10 posted on 07/21/2009 12:42:47 PM PDT by TChris (There is no freedom without the possibility of failure.)
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To: docbnj

Of course, Canada has no death penalty. It would be too cruel, I suppose. Certainly seems appropriate in this case. I think Texas has the right idea. And if you are in a gang, it does not matter exactly who pulled the trigger.

How could the perps think that they could ever get away with this? I suspect that it is partly because of the soft attitude of Canada toward murderers.

By the way, you might want to check out the crime rate in Canada: for the most part, they are such nice people, and so concerned about gun safety that it is very awkward to own or practice with firearms, and the official position is that it is unthinkable that you should ever defend yourself with a firearm. They are so tender-hearted, and yet the crime rate is just about double what it is in the States, and has risen in the last decade.


11 posted on 07/21/2009 12:51:39 PM PDT by docbnj
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To: TChris

Portland has the Gypsy Jokers. We don’t have Hell’s Angels because they continue to honor the truce that exiled the Jokers from the Bay Area and gave Portland exclusively to them.

The Portland police are intimidated by the Jokers. They raided the clubhouse to serve warrents and busted a bunch of stuff. The Jokers sued and won a pretty big damage award. The PoPo set up a roadblock on a “run” and ran everyone’s ID, wrote fix-it tickets, etc. The Jokers sued and won.

I know a guy who was messing around with a woman who was connected to the club. His bike was stolen. He said: “I know exactly where it is and so do the police, but they don’t want the hassle of dealing with it.”


12 posted on 07/21/2009 12:54:47 PM PDT by Jack Black
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Wikipedia has this picture:

OPP Sgt. Dave Rector positions Bandidos vest seized in raids near Iona Station prior to a news conference in London, Ontario. Note MC and 1% patches.

Here is an excerpt from the article:

The U.S. Department of Justice defines Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs as organizations whose members use their motorcycle clubs as conduits for criminal enterprises[36]. Both the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Criminal Intelligence Service Canada have designated four MCs as Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs (OMGs), which are the Pagans, Hells Angels, Outlaws MC, and Bandidos,[37][38] known as the "Big Four".[39]

These four have a large enough national impact to be prosecuted under the Federal Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) statute.[40]

The FBI asserts that OMGs collect $1 billion in illegal income annually[45][46] and that street gangs, prison gangs, and OMGs are the primary retail distributors of illegal drugs in the US,[47][48] with OMGs dominating US methamphetamine trade distribution.[49][50]

Canada, especially, has in the past two decades experienced a significant upsurge in crime involving outlaw motorcycle gangs, most notably in what has been dubbed the Quebec Biker war, which has involved more than 150 murders[53] (plus a young bystander killed by an exploding car bomb), 84 bombings, and 130 cases of arson.[44] The increased violence in Canada has been attributed to turf wars over the illegal drug trafficking business, specifically relating to access to the Port of Montreal[54] , but also as the Hells Angels have sought to obtain control of the street level trade from other rival and/or independent gangs in various regions of Canada.[55]

13 posted on 07/21/2009 1:19:49 PM PDT by Jack Black
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To: nickcarraway
From the Toronto Star.

Accused murderer Wayne Kellestine danced a jig several times during the slaughter while singing the Nazi National Anthem "Deutschland Uber Alles" . Kellestine told a Jewish biker he would be killed last so he would suffer most.

Ah, what dubious pleasure here, to tee off on the Toronto Star. The purveyors of multi-culture in the "most vibrant multi-cultural city in the world. Forgive me everybody, if I digress. Some time ago, Toronto got $15 million to lobby for the Olympic Games. They did not get the games eventually. The Star had great headlines. To the effect it was all systems go. Brimming over with civic pride. Just to the left on the front page was a by line and about three paragraphs.

Three killed in night club slaying

How Toronto had changed. There are "no go" areas in Toronto and the Star will not admit it. It boosts the "lovely Carribana parade". It boosts "Gay Pride Parade". It does report the awful gang warfare though- give it to them on that score. No, not nasties of old stock variety.

Suddenly some reporter gets a big fat gold medal. Working the "Nazis" and the persecution of the Jew into the whole scenario. Help, the Nazis are coming! Of course the wonderful Hymn, "Glorious things of thee are spoken, Zion city of our God" is sung to the tune "Austria".

Sung at at school in England in WW2. (Little did we know of the updated version). (Laughs).

14 posted on 07/21/2009 1:33:19 PM PDT by Peter Libra
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To: nickcarraway

Any idea why these bikers were murdered?


15 posted on 07/21/2009 1:39:10 PM PDT by Ditter
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To: robertwalker62

You’re correct. “Deutschland Ueber Alles” merely means that Germany means more to the singer of the song than anything else does. It is like saying: “Germany the most beautiful”.


16 posted on 07/21/2009 2:01:52 PM PDT by 353FMG (Death is Life without Freedom.)
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I take the opportunity of clarifying my statement on the reporter for the Toronto Star. He is Peter Edwards. Once again this may be to digress. I hope people will bear with me. What I am talking about is a journalistic attitude which has now gone to the ridiculous.

In 1995 the native people raided and vandalised a military installation. Ipperwash in Ontario. Ontario Provincial Police were called to restore order. A shot was fired and one Dudley George, a native died. Ontario paid a thousand times over for that. The acting police sergeant had his life ruined.

"One Dead Indian"
Peter Edwards.

His account of the death of George. I saw Edwards on the television. A purveyor of anti-police and anti-government slanted accounting. Millions of dollars in enquiries. Apologies galore.

The true story of thuggish intimidation, vandalism and absolute goading of our police officers absolutely covered up by the press (or most of it). I will say no more.

Thank God for the Internet. If it was prevalent then, the Canadian public would not have been gulled. George did not deserve to die. He and others cried out for police reaction. One man fired his rifle.......

17 posted on 07/21/2009 2:37:54 PM PDT by Peter Libra
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To: docbnj
They are so tender-hearted, and yet the crime rate is just about double what it is in the States,

You got a source for this?

18 posted on 07/21/2009 2:42:08 PM PDT by Yardstick
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To: Ditter
Any idea why these bikers were murdered?

. Now I have the one story and I provide it guardedly. In order to show fealty- a complete subservience to a dominant group, which they wished to join- or gain permanent status, they had orders.

This was to all go to Winnipeg, Manitoba over a 1000 miles away to attend a prominent biker funeral. They refuse and were thus accused of "disrespect".

Could be just a story, floated by the media- who are not noted for accuracy here.

19 posted on 07/21/2009 2:44:57 PM PDT by Peter Libra
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To: Peter Libra

That makes no sense, but then, I am not a biker.

What a bunch of pond scum. The ones who were murdered probably weren’t any better. Good riddance to the whole bunch.


20 posted on 07/21/2009 2:52:41 PM PDT by Ditter
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