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Clarification On Battle Over Marks

14. July 2010

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Clarification On Battle Over Marks

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 [...]

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New Battle Over Mongols Marks

11. July 2010

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New Battle Over Mongols Marks

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, [...]

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Slices Of Rebel’s World

29. June 2010

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Slices Of Rebel’s World

January 21, 2009 MEMORANDUM FOR THE HEADS OF EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES SUBJECT: Freedom of Information Act A democracy requires accountability, and accountability requires transparency. As Justice Louis Brandeis wrote, “sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants.” In our democracy, the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), which encourages accountability through transparency, is the [...]

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25. June 2010

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Bill “Sputnik” Strain

Bill “Sputnik” Strain

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 [...]

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14. June 2010

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Rebel Will Return

Rebel Will Return

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 [...]

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3. June 2010

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Six Highwaymen Found Guilty

Six Highwaymen Found Guilty

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 [...]

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2. June 2010

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Bye, Bye, Bye Miranda

Bye, Bye, Bye Miranda

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 [...]

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1. June 2010

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Knoxville Outlaws Sue Buffoon Sheriff

Knoxville Outlaws Sue Buffoon Sheriff

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 [...]

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1. June 2010

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Dennis Hopper

Dennis Hopper

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 [...]

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27. May 2010

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Yet Another Felony

Yet Another Felony

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 [...]

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22. May 2010

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LZ Lambeau

LZ Lambeau

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 [...]

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21. May 2010

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Who The Tulsa Sheriffs Killed

Who The Tulsa Sheriffs Killed

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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20. May 2010

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Aguilar Set Free

Aguilar Set Free

Phillip Aguilar, founder of the Set Free Soldiers Motorcycle Ministry pled guilty last week to one misdemeanor count of being a prohibited person in possession of a bullet. In return for his guilty plea he had three felony counts – possession of a firearm by a felon, possession of brass knuckles and street terrorism – [...]

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17. May 2010

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Dulaney Out Of Pagans Case

Dulaney Out Of Pagans Case

William L. Dulaney, a college professor who studies motorcycle outlaws, has withdrawn as an expert witness in the Pagans Motorcycle Club RICO case in Charleston, West Virginia. Dulaney (above) is a former member of the American Outlaws Association who has become a common source for journalists seeking insight into the outlaw world. He has appeared [...]

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16. May 2010

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Running To Washington

Running To Washington

These are the weeks the thunder rolls. The twenty-second annual Run For The Wall pulls out of the parking lot of the Victoria Gardens Mall in Rancho Cucamonga, California this Wednesday, May 19th. From there the riders follow one of two routes. What is called the central route stops in Williams, Arizona; Gallup and Angel [...]

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