The government’s argument for the legality of outlawing fraternal, legal and social organizations is most frankly summarized in three documents filed in the case US v. Cavazos et al. The government is accusing the Mongols Motorcycle Club of being a “racket” and that accusation constitutes about half the proof. The other half of the proof [...]
Continue reading...14. July 2010
This page apologizes for the unnecessary consternation it has caused some members of the Mongols Motorcycle Club with the posting below titled “New Battle Over Mongols Marks.” The issue has been argued before three judges and it should have been decided last July. A fine lawyer, gentleman and scholar named David Blair-Loy who is the [...]
Continue reading...11. July 2010
The government war to “get” the Mongols Motorcycle Club continues to plumb the dark well into which Thomas Jefferson’s grand idea has fallen. Much of the evidence in the case is simply fabricated. From the very beginning the architects of this monstrosity, particularly ATF Special Agent John Ciccone and Assistant United States Attorney Christopher Brunwin, [...]
Continue reading...31. August 2010
Suave writes to ask about the legal battle over the Mongols name and patch – the collective membership marks: “Anything new Rebel?” Answer: Not really. George Steele is now representing Mongols Nation Motorcycle Club Inc. As has been the case from the very start, the government attorneys are infuriatingly stubborn. In a nutshell, the government [...]
Continue reading...24. August 2010
An eyewitness to the gunfight between members of the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club and members of the Vagos Motorcycle Club in Chino Valley, Arizona last Saturday describes it as “an ambush.” No Vago or Hells Angel has talked to this page about this incident. Most clubs enforce a “don’t talk to reporters rule.” According to [...]
Continue reading...22. August 2010
The escalating hard feelings between members of the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club and the Vagos Motorcycle Club erupted into gunfire early Saturday afternoon in Chino Valley, Arizona. Multiple news outlets are reporting the fight took place near a gray, two story, stucco house in 2600 the block of Yuma Drive around noon. Yuma Drive is [...]
Continue reading...25. June 2010
Bill “Sputnik” Strain, probably the best known biker’s rights advocate in the United States, died June 23rd, 2010. Everybody knew Sputnik. He was a beefy, gnarled, old Cherokee with tattoos framing his Mohawk haircut. He wore a thick goatee without a mustache and he was so well respected by people across the political spectrum that [...]
Continue reading...14. June 2010
It is Monday, June 14th and Rebel is busy right now trying to convince some people who live in New York City that he can too write books and stuff; that motorcycle outlaws are interesting, noble and misunderstood; and that the ATF is the American secret police. Amazing though it might seem, some of the [...]
Continue reading...3. June 2010
After a forty-five month long legal assault, the Department of Justice finally convicted six members of the Highwaymen Motorcycle Club in Detroit of racketeering. The convicted men are Aref “Steve” Nagi, Gary “Junior” Ball, Leonard “Dad” Moore, Joseph “Little Joe” Whiting, Anthony “Mad Anthony” Clark and Michael “Cocoa” Cicchetti. Cicchetti was at home when the [...]
Continue reading...2. June 2010
As of June 1st, it is once again legal in America to trick a confession out of a suspect. Since 1966, criminal suspects have been constitutionally protected from being browbeaten into incriminating themselves by a ruling titled Miranda versus Arizona. All criminal suspects have a constitutional right not to be compelled into being made a [...]
Continue reading...1. June 2010
The Outlaws Motorcycle Club, Inc. and fifteen individuals filed a $6 million lawsuit last Friday in the United States Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee against the City of Knoxville, Knox County, County Sheriff Jimmy J.J. Jones (pictured above,) Knoxville Police Chief Sterling Owens IV and everybody who participated in a violent and malicious [...]
Continue reading...1. June 2010
Dennis Hopper, without whom there would never have been an Easy Rider, died May 29th in Venice, California. Hopper co-wrote, co-starred in and directed the film. Easy Rider is, all at once, one of the worst films ever made and one of the most iconic movies ever. It gave a name to the first, real [...]
Continue reading...27. May 2010
Bikers love children. Children love motorcycles. And police hate motorcycles, children, bikers and letting people alone. So when all those elements get close enough the result is often a felony. John Tuohy, who covers the police beat for the Indianapolis Star reported today that Edward Purnell, 47, has been charged with felony neglect of a [...]
Continue reading...22. May 2010
Forty-two years after the siege of Khe Sanh and the Tet Offensive and thirty-five years after the fall of Saigon the state of Wisconsin officially welcomed the troops back home from Vietnam this weekend. The event is called LZ, for Landing Zone, Lambeau. The official welcoming began Friday with a motorcycle “honor ride” of 1,244 [...]
Continue reading...21. May 2010
Russell Andrew “Roc” Doza was born in Munich, Germany on January 16th, 1961. He was named for his godfather, Russell Andrew Hall. His father was a career soldier and his father and his mother were often separated. When Russell Doza was about two, he asked his mother, Leona, for a glass of Kool Aid. His [...]
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3. September 2010
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