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18. May 2013

May Is Motorcycle Safety Awareness Month

Maybe it will happen like this. I’ll catch a long parade of impossibly slow trucks on a secondary, two lane road. I dream those roads. They float and dance in my imagination like bingo balls – the 95 between Needles and Blythe, the 89 between Ash Fork and Chino Valley, the 85 from Buckeye to [...]

15. May 2013

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The Kingman Civil Rights Suit

Melissa Summerson, a long-time employee of Kingman, Arizona who was fired three days after Christmas in 2012 because her husband belonged to the Desert Road Riders Motorcycle Club filed a federal civil rights suit against the city last week alleging that she was wrongly terminated. The 16-page suit presents a compelling description of a loony [...]

9. May 2013

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The State Should Apologize

A news story published yesterday in the Columbia, South Carolina State raises ethical questions about the incestuous relationship between journalists and official sources. You can read that story, written by Andrew Dys here. Essentially, journalism has two components, one artistic and the other mundane. The mundane component involves collecting and brokering information obtained from public [...]

21. May 2013

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Mongols Case Almost Resolved

After fifty-four months, there is still one defendant in the Mongols federal racketeering case U.S. v. Cavazos et al. awaiting his day in court. He is Peter “Bouncer” Soto. Another defendant named Horacio “Scorpio” Ponce was sentenced yesterday by Judge David O. Carter to a term of 84 months in prison and five years of [...]

20. May 2013

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The Manchurian Harleys

China Daily reported this morning that thirteen American Harley riders rolled into Tai’an last week. Tai’an is a city of about 5.5 million people in Western China south of Beijing. The riders are participants in the “Ride to Confucius” tour, which is arranged by a suburban Philadelphia company named Knighthawk Tours LLC. It is the [...]

17. May 2013

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Sensenbrenner’s Bill

Jim Sensenbrenner, a Republican Congressman from Wisconsin, has introduced a bill called the Stop Motorcycle Checkpoint Funding Act. The Bill, H.R. 1861, would prohibit the Department of Transportation Department from providing funds to state and local authorities for motorcycle-only checkpoints. The Bill currently has 13 Republican co-sponsors and is being considered by House the Transportation [...]

16. May 2013

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Operation Red Harvest Update

The hot air balloon called Operation Red Harvest finally started deflating today, a mere thirteen months after the self-congratulatory press conference. Red Harvest was the secret investigation that began in December 2010 and resulted in a grand jury voting out 226 separate criminal indictments in April 2012. Saundra Rhodes, the blowhard who runs the Horry [...]

15. May 2013

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Attack Of The Bots Continues

Just so everybody knows: 9:00 a.m. Pacific “As many of you have already heard, we are experiencing issues with a number of hosts across all of our datacenters. If you are writing because you are experiencing problems with your site being down or exceptionally slow today, you are likely affected.” 10:02 a.m. Pacific “Some of [...]

14. May 2013

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Adios Whiskey Row Chapter

Back in February, Mike Koepke, the Vice-President of the Hells Angels Arizona Nomads charter, sent an open letter to the local Iron Brotherhood Motorcycle Club’s Whiskey Row chapter in Prescott. Koepke’s letter began: “I am very concerned with the recent events pertaining to the Iron Brotherhood Motorcycle Gang. I am very displeased with the ‘bully’ [...]

14. May 2013

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Attack Of The Bots

The Aging Rebel was offline for about eight hours yesterday due to what was described at the time as “an extremely advanced botnet attack that is targeting WordPress logins. The nature and rate of the attacks make it hard to block, and it can cause host servers to run out of available resources rather quickly.” [...]

13. May 2013

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Jason Fogle Sentenced

The crusade against the Rock Hell City Nomads charter of the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club claimed another victim two and a half weeks ago. Jason Brian “Trouble” Fogle, a former prospect with the charter was sentenced in state court by Judge Clifton Newman to six years in prison for selling two tenths of a gram [...]

13. May 2013

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Loose Cannons Clubhouse Shootings

There was a gunfight early Sunday morning between members of the Loose Cannons and the Devils Diciples Motorcycle Clubs. The fight erupted about 1:30 a.m. during a party at the Loose Cannons’ clubhouse on North Apache Trail near North Safari Place in Apache Junction. Apache Junction is east of Phoenix. According to Tamra Ingersoll of [...]

10. May 2013

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Five Reported Sentenced

Jonathan McFadden of the Rock Hill, South Carolina Herald reported Friday morning that five defendants in the “Hells Angels biker gang” racketeering case were sentenced yesterday in the federal court room of District Judge Cameron McGowan Currie. The Herald sites prosecutor Julius N. “Jay” Richardson as a source. You can read that story here. The [...]

8. May 2013

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Updating The Rock Hell Case

The Rock Hell racketeering case filed eleven months ago against members of the Hells Angels, Red Devils and Southern Gentlemen Motorcycle Clubs in South Carolina zombies on. In the last week a couple of notable defendants have been sentenced. Two more are scheduled to be sentenced tomorrow and two more are scheduled to be sentenced [...]

7. May 2013

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Kid Versus Cop

The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department is one of the world’s leading proponents of “zero tolerance,” which forbids police to use discretion when citing citizens for any of thousands of possible infractions. It is a law enforcement philosophy that blatantly encourages cops to search for excuses to bully citizens and it only works one way. [...]

6. May 2013

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Georgia Outlaws Farce Part Three

Larry “Larry Mack” McDaniel, who is a regional president of the American Outlaws Association in Georgia, was arraigned again today in the latest attempt by a United States Attorney and an apparently unprofessional FBI Agent named Mark Sewell, to get McDaniel on something. Today it was “Conspiracy and Tampering with a Witness, Victim, or an [...]

2. May 2013

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Splitting Lanes In Nevada

Nevada will probably become the second state to legalize lane splitting. Nevada Assembly Bill 236, sponsored by Representatives Skip Daly, Richard Carrillo and Jame Healey, was approved by the state assembly on April 18th and is now in the Senate Transportation Committee. If the bill is approved by the state senate, it will go into [...]

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May Is Motorcycle Safety Awareness Month

The Kingman Civil Rights Suit

The State Should Apologize

Mongols Case Almost Resolved

The Manchurian Harleys

Sensenbrenner’s Bill

Operation Red Harvest Update

Attack Of The Bots Continues

Adios Whiskey Row Chapter

Attack Of The Bots

Jason Fogle Sentenced

Loose Cannons Clubhouse Shootings

Five Reported Sentenced

Updating The Rock Hell Case

Kid Versus Cop

Georgia Outlaws Farce Part Three

Splitting Lanes In Nevada

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