Last month The Associated Press asked American newspaper editors and television news directors to name the top stories of 2012. The AP does this every year and the news service released its most recent survey results a few days before Christmas. The consensus among America’s media executives is that the rash of mass shootings like the tragedy in Newtown, Connecticut; the national elections; “Superstorm Sandy;” “Obamacare;” the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya; Jerry Sandusky, the Penn State pedophile; the economic recovery; the fiscal cliff; gay marriage; and the civil war in Syria – in that order – were the top ten stories about which America most needed to be informed.
Not even Mark Lett, the executive editor of the State newspaper in Columbia, South Carolina ever thought the local prosecution of Diamond Dan Bifield was important enough to make one of his reporters drive the four long miles from the plant out by the airport to the federal courthouse all the way downtown. Maybe Lett just wants his staff to conserve gasoline. The State may pick up the story tomorrow, now that the lead defendant has thrown in the towel. But that depends on whether United States Attorney Bill Nettles sends the paper a press release that one of Lett’s news monkeys can rewrite. That’s how news works.
Another South Carolina newspaper did mention the Hells Angels in its list of the last year’s top local stories. The Myrtle Beach Sun News listed another Hells Angels prosecution as the ninth most important local story of 2012 – well below last May’s scaled down Blue Crab Festival but just ahead of a touching human interest piece about a black Lab that walked 500 miles to reunite with his master. People love dogs. Reporters love human interest stories.
But people don’t love Hells Angels – at least not since they killed Sharon Tate and ruined that free Stones concert. Reporters don’t love Hells Angels because, you know, if those guys screwed up a free concert 43 years ago who knows what else they might be capable of. All of that is why, since the first indictment was announced last June, no newspaper or magazine has bothered to cover United States versus Daniel Bifield and others. The case has been ignored because no editor, reporter or writer has found an angle to hang the story on.
Maybe The Aging Rebel can help. This page has published 16 stories about the case so far and has found that if you bother to look, the case is not at all what the prosecution has made it out to be. The story of this case has larger than life, innocent and villainous, brave and cowardly, noble and ignoble characters wrestling with big, important, relevant, sexy issues. This racketeering case is more important than the Blue Crab Festival. US v Bifield et al. might even be more important to America than gay marriage. It may say more about the state of the nation than the deaths in Bengazi. It should be easier to explain than the Syrian uprising.
So here are some obvious angles on this case that even a news monkey could have written on but that no newspaper or network bothered to pursue.
Motorcycle Outlaws
America’s greatest exports have always been ideas. The American Revolution inspired the French Revolution. In 1888, as part of a complex business strategy intended to frustrate unionization and sell sporting goods, National League founder Albert G. Spalding sponsored a round the world baseball tour that made baseball matter in Japan. One of the attractions the touring baseball players viewed in Paris and again in London was Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show – a kind of rodeo that had a global effect on how America and the American frontier are still understood. America’s most important exports in the decade after the Second World War might have been rock n’ roll and blue jeans. When hippies protested in Berkeley, hippies appeared and protested in Paris and Prague. And, there are now three piece patch motorcycle clubs modeled on similar clubs in the United States in every English speaking country, most of Europe and even in the former Soviet Union.
“Bike is the most democratic transport vehicle,” Vladimir Putin told the Night Wolves in Sevastopol in July 2010. “Bike is the most daring, challenging, as it gives its owner the tempting feeling of freedom. That is why one can say without exaggeration, bike is a symbol of freedom. You came here, because you are a free people and you can go wherever you want.”
American style outlaw motorcycle clubs, for reasons that are too complex and varied to be explored here but that should nevertheless be self-evident to any reporter of near normal intelligence, are now one of the most cogent institutions on the planet. They are not a symptom of social decay. They are, as the historiographer Arnold Toynbee would have put it, a “response” to some transnational “challenge” in exactly the same way that fever is a response to infection. A significant fraction of the world’s population is now fascinated with the idea of small, tightly knit bands of armed, mobile, capable, secretive, honor driven, anti-materialistic, defiant, loyal and physically courageous men who make and live by their own rules.
Monkeys who own televisions know this. Brothers in Arms was a hit in Australia. Sons of Anarchy is the highest rated basic cable series in the United States. Even The Devils Ride, a reality drama about members of a small club in San Diego, can attract two million viewers in any seven days. The television bikers have become role models for millions of disaffected and otherwise invisible adult men. Almost everyone knows this, too. Kurt Sutter probably knows this. The advertisers on his show absolutely do.
Even federal prosecutors may understand this but, as a rule, they are too personally selfish and egotistical to behave rationally. A great, bloated, apparently recession proof industry has appeared in America, Australia and other traditionally free nations that exists to invent imaginary threats and then defeat them. The currently escalating war on the outlaw biker menace is a major component of the so-called war on terror. This terror war is not a war on Al Qaeda. It is obviously a war on inner city neighborhoods, immigrants, recreational drugs, fringe religions, survivalists, militias, outlaw bikers and other social dissidents. It is a war on behalf of social and political orthodoxy and the longer it continues the more likely a catastrophic reaction to all this becomes.
The defendants in the Bifield case were targeted, spied on, tempted with forbidden fruit, encouraged and entrapped because they were relatively defenseless and because they were easy to vilify. At any point in this case a prosecutor or one of his witnesses will likely invoke an imperfect memory of either Hunter Thompson’s Hell’s Angels or Marlon Brando’s The Wild One. Jurors are not likely to learn that Thompson mocked the very notion of the biker menace – beginning with his ironic “the menace is loose” on page one. The Internet Movie Database summarizes the Brando film as, “Two rival motorcycle gangs terrorize a small town after one of their leaders is thrown in jail.” But that isn’t what the film is about at all.
“Hey Johnnie, what are you rebelling against,” a loose blonde in a burqa style skirt asks the leader of the biker pack in what is probably the most famous minute in the film.
“Whaddaya got,” Johnnie the antihero replies.
The movie’s bikers, two factions of the Black Rebel Motorcycle Club are annoying and disquieting. But the movie, produced in 1953, is about a witch hunt inspired by a popular panic over “juvenile delinquency.” Before the film ends Johnnie is pursued, assaulted and framed for manslaughter. And, he escapes only because one old cop cares more about discovering the truth than in padding his permanent record with a slam dunk conviction.
The defendants in Columbia do not have the advantage Johnnie had. The men who are prosecuting them don’t care about truth.
Diamond Dan Bifield
The case that has swallowed more than a score of people is named for Daniel Eugene Bifield who was founding President of the Hells Angels’ Rock Hell Nomad charter and Vice-President of the charter at the time of his arrest. He is a genial and charming man who is well-regarded by almost everyone who knows him and his biography is more interesting than most contemporary fiction. Any hack could compare Bifield to either Rip Van Winkle or Richard Farnsworth’s The Grey Fox. Farnsworth’s old stage coach robber – based on a man named Bill Miner – spent 33 years in prison before his release in 1901. Van Winkle lost 20 years to a magical sleep. Dan Bifield spent 27 years in a couple prisons. The two fictional characters and the two actual men, Miner and Bifield, were thrown into a world that was radically different than the world they knew. In Bifield’s case the new world he found himself in had a much more corrupt and petty system of federal justice than the world he had prepared himself to enter. When Bifield went to prison the first time America punished men for committing crimes. The world he found beyond the walls that bound him for so long punishes men for being criminals.
Dan Bifield never stood a chance. And, like all the most tragic heroes he is an interesting man.
He has been a Hells Angel since 1975. He founded the Bridgeport charter of his club. He got his nickname because he has always been fond of expensive jewelry. He was arrested in 1981 on federal gun and extortion charges. Federal authorities described him as the most dangerous man in Connecticut – which may have carried more romantic overtones then than it does now.
Shortly after his arrest he was mentioned in a news story as an example of a man who refused to tolerate racially motivated, homosexual rapes of young and weak white inmates in the Bridgeport Correctional Center. Even then jailers detested Bifield – possibly because he was a more moral man than they were. He developed kidney stones. Federal officials denied him treatment and in September 1981 he found an open window and he broke out of jail.
Within a week the United States Attorney prosecuting Bifield declared the young Angel was dead and that his body had been found in the East River in New York. A few months later Bifield sent that prosecutor a photo taken in the Bahamas. That prosecutor became a United States Senator. The great American meritocracy didn’t work as well for Diamond Dan. He was captured by U.S. Marshalls in Denver in February 1982.
He was sent to what was then America’s Devil’s Island, the escape proof, super-maximum federal penitentiary in Marion, Illinois. In general, at least at that time, federal prisons were not intended to simply segregate criminals from the general population while they were rehabilitated and paid their debt to society with great fractions of their lives. Marion in particular was a place where men nobody cared about were punished everyday out of sight of the public, press, prosecutors and politicians. Bifield was locked in a small cell for 165 hours a week. Guards ignored him. He knew John Gotti. Gotti didn’t make it out of that cell block in Marion but Diamond Dan did.
In 1990 he was transferred to the federal prison in Allenwood, Pennsylvania. Seven years later he was convicted of participating in a scheme to collect undeserved income tax refunds. When banks pull equivalent scams they become too big to fail. Unfortunately, Bifield wasn’t trying to get rich. His share of the bogus returns went to the woman who was then his wife. He took the blame and was sentenced to serve another eleven years in prison. This chivalrous streak may be the most obvious feature of Bifield’s character. He is a sentimentalist. His wife was not. While he served those years she divorced him.
When he was released in 2008 all the 58-year-old Bifield had in the world were his club brothers and memories of a world that used to be a better place. Instead of being released in New York or Connecticut he was sent to South Carolina and offered a minimum wage job as a dishwasher. Throughout his long ordeal Bifield became what most people would describe as a better man. Prison refined his masculine virtues. Almost everyone who has spoken about him describes him glowingly. “Diamond Dan is like a Pops to me,” one of his friends wrote. “I lost mine when I was 12 and now I am 37.”
Bifield rebuilt the life he had lost. He put together the Rock Hill Angels’ charter, mostly on a borrowed cell phone. He found a woman who loved him to replace the woman who did not. Her name was Lisa Meyers. During the worst economic crisis since the great depression he found a way to support himself by buying and selling precious metals and jewelry. In 2011 Bifield got married again. The FBI investigation that would doom him was already underway. South Carolina police subpoenaed a copy of the couple’s wedding license.
“I knew exactly what that meant and I cannot believe Danny didn’t,” a source said last June. “I’m sure he knew but his bride naively, did not. Already they were getting RICO info.” The Federal Bureau of Investigation intended to leverage a massive indictment with multiple defendants into the plea deal that would seal Dan Bifield’s fate. The FBI’s most effective tool against Bifield was his good character. He had already proven years before that he would act against his own best interests to protect someone he loved.
“He’ll do it again,” the source said, “and, Lisa will either be told by him to ‘make the best deal you can but only include me or he’ll take one hundred percent of the blame on himself again. In fact, I am sure that right now, he is counting on the feds making some sort of deal for his old lady and he is probably smiling that he is two steps ahead of them…. Danny will likely die in prison, barring some miracle. But if that happens he will die with a smile on his face and he will die a Hells Angel.”
The Racketeering Angle
All the defendants in U.S. v Bifield et al. are charged with racketeering under the Racketeer Influenced Corrupt Organizations statute which is usually called “RICO.” The law is whimsically named for a film character called Rico “Little Caesar” Bandello who was supposed to represent the mobster Alphonse Gabriel “Scarface” Capone. One of Capone’s most heartfelt desires was to get out of whiskey and get into milk. In 1932 Capone used his bootlegging money to buy Meadowmoor Dairies and so he almost escaped a risky life of crime. Many men who followed Capone’s path to wealth and power also wanted to eventually “go legitimate.”
RICO was written to prevent that legitimacy so the so-called “Mafia” couldn’t “get away with” their crimes. When the law was new, the definition of a “criminal enterprise” was explicitly understood to mean the legitimate enterprise, like Capone’s dairy, that served as a “front” for racketeers. The legal concept was related to the “fruit of the poisoned tree” analogy that applies to the admission of evidence. Theoretically, police have to play fair when they gather evidence against you and if they don’t the evidence can be thrown out. Similarly, RICO would prevent bad men from hiding behind illegal money by converting that money into a legitimate asset. That was what racketeering used to mean.
In 1981 however, in a case called United States v. Turkette, the federal Supreme Court redefined the meaning of “enterprise.” Before Turkette “enterprise” meant the legitimate business that had become tainted by its association with an organized criminal organization. Turkette changed the meaning of “enterprise” to mean the criminal organization itself. The Columbia Law Review called this newly defined RICO “The Crime of Being a Criminal.”
The Los Angeles Times editorialized: “A good law has several essential attributes: It is clear; it addresses itself to a specific and clearly defined form of illicit conduct; it prescribes a remedy or punishment proportionate to the damage done by the offense. Statutes that fail to meet these tests are enacted not in the cause of justice, but for the convenience of the state. RICO, in fact, is one of the latter…. RICO originally was directed against the conspiratorial activities of so-called mob families. However, the law is so loosely worded that any two instances of illegal conduct within a 10-year period – even if relatively trivial – can, if they involve use of the mail or telephone, be prosecuted as a ‘pattern of racketeering activity.’”
One of the first targets of RICO after Turkette was the San Diego charter of the Hells Angels. The law has since been used extensively in motorcycle club cases as a de facto “Writ of Attainder” to punish men for associating with motorcycle clubs. Over the last three decades RICO has become a way to find petty criminals and innocents guilty by association.
The law enforcement collaboration that stalked and trapped the defendants in this case was called “The S.C. Hells Angels Task Force.” It was a collaboration of federal and state police that attempted to catch the defendants breaking local laws. Most of those laws including informal firearms sales and the possession, use and sharing of common recreational drugs like marijuana were punishable by months or as long as a few years in jail. Except for an alleged conspiracy invented by paid government agents provocateur the crimes were all what lawyers call malum prohibium – which means that they are not crimes because they are intrinsically wrong but because someone passed a law that makes them crimes: As buying and selling beer was illegal during prohibition and as buying and selling marijuana is a federal crime everywhere in the country today.
Because the defendants had ties to a perfectly legal, but frequently vilified, association called the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club the defendants all face penalties of twenty years or more in federal prison. Worse, if the defendants were simply charged with their alleged crimes under state law prosecutors would have to prove them guilty of those “predicate crimes” beyond a reasonable doubt. But RICO allows federal prosecutors to prove the defendants guilty by the civil standard which is by a “preponderance of the evidence.”
Prosecution Is Punishment
Except for the wealthy and advantaged, America no longer has an adversarial legal system and the accused are no longer considered innocent until proven guilty. As in Soviet Russia, laws have become a way to supply the bodies needed to support the police-prison industrial complex, which has become an important component of the rotting American economy. Dying towns that once competed for factories now compete for prisons.
Virtually no one escapes federal “justice.” According to the most recent statistics available, about 93 percent of all of the federally accused take a deal. In very many cases, defendants continue to stubbornly maintain their innocence until their assets are exhausted and they have to fire the lawyer of their choosing. Federal public defenders, usually instruct their clients to take the deal. Contesting a charge alienates these defenders from their prosecutorial colleagues and the judges upon whom they depend for their income. Federal prosecutors are never interested in freeing innocent prisoners but only in improving their batting averages and the esteem with which they are regarded by their colleagues.
At least 90 percent of those who insist on a trial before a jury comprised of people too stupid to get out of jury duty are convicted. And universally, defendants who go to trial are punished more harshly than they would have been if they had cooperated and taken the plea. All federal district judges “believe in the plea bargaining system.” And almost universally,judges resent the assets – starting with sending a jury subpoena to 5,000 or more registered voters – that must be squandered to try uncooperative defendants,
Federal defendants are considered guilty until proven innocent and federal judges consider themselves to be administrators of punishment not judges of innocence. In biker cases, defendants are typically punished in at least three ways before they are even offered a plea and sentencing agreement: By Swat, by public shaming and by punitive incarceration.
Dan Bifield and his wife Lisa were arrested by a Swat Team. Swat, a word that began as an acronym for “special weapons and tactics,” now means militarized police armed with machine guns. In most cases these ersatz commandos are transported by quasi tanks. The original concept of Swat in Los Angeles in the 1960s was to institutionalize a police squad to deal with snipers. Soon Swat meant a specialized police squad that could “reduce risk to the police forces…to the suspects and to the community at large.”
Currently Swat translates as “goon squad.” Dynamic Swat entries follow a formula. First they blow in your door. Then they kill your pets. Then they point guns at your wife and children. Then they wreck the interior of your house.
The Bifields were Swat victims. “The feds have ruined and taken everything we had and worked for,” the biker from another, more innocent age wrote from jail. “They blew up our house! They searched and destroyed it! And, all they found were seven knives! They didn’t have to do all that. We were told and knew they were coming but we had no idea it would be a set-up. I told the cops over and over that they didn’t have to come blow up our house and destroy it. I told them that we had nothing in there. We never have and we never would. I told one of the officers to call us or let us know (when the indictment was unsealed) and I would turn myself in to whoever I had to.”
“When I stepped outside with my hands up they had five red dots in the middle of my chest,” Dan Bifield continued. “And do you know what I told them? I said, ‘Go ahead and shoot me.’ One of the feds ran up to me and tried to push me hard but I pushed back and held my position. I told them they did not have to do all that. I was more worried about my wife. She was so scared, upset and confused! I wanted to run over and hold her. We hardly had any clothes on but they didn’t care. They took our jewelry which we had paid for long before all this bullshit. They took and kept my club jewelry that had been given to me 30 years before. They even took the bracelet my wife had given me for my birthday. The took the diamond earring she had given me for our anniversary. They took our wedding bands.”
After the Swat raid the public shaming began. Police held a news conference to announce that the Bifield’s arrests, “follow a two-year interagency investigation by the South Carolina Hells Angels Task Force (SCHATF). Assisting in the investigation and today’s operation were the Federal Bureau of Investigation-Columbia and Charlotte Field Divisions; Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives; Lexington County Sheriff’s Department; Lexington Police Department; Rock Hill Police Department; York County Sheriff’s Office; Lancaster County Sheriff’s Office; State Law Enforcement Division; Gastonia, Police Department; Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department; Gaston County Sheriff’s Office; and North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation.
“United States Attorney Bill Nettles commended the inter-agency cooperation, saying, ‘Today’s arrests and seizures are an important step in our ongoing fight against criminal gangs operating in South Carolina. This investigation is also another example of what can be accomplished through a close partnership among local, state, and federal law enforcement agencies.’”
An FBI special agent stated, “The significance of the extensive and long-term investigative efforts that resulted in the arrests today represent the FBI’s continuing commitment to the dismantling of organized criminal organizations. By working in a joint environment with federal, state, and local counterparts, we send a clear message that such pervasive criminal activities will not be tolerated.”
The bare bottom of the press handout warned, “all charges in this indictment are merely accusations and that all defendants are presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty” but that was simply boiler plate and the press knew it. The immediate press coverage stated that “91 indictments had been returned against the Rock Hell City Nomad Chapter of the Hells Angels, for charges including racketeering, narcotics, money laundering and firearms.” No press outlet even mentioned the possibility that the defendants might be innocent or that the authorities might be wrong let alone corrupt. In some press accounts the Bifields were even accused of prostitution and the point of that was to portray Dan as a pimp and Lisa as his whore. That accusation will haunt both of them for the rest of their lives.
Bifield remained defiant, however, so he was furthered punished in jail.
“I see how they did my wife and me! They took us to different jails,” he wrote in July. “They put us in the hole with no visits, mail, phone calls or recreation. We have no clothes. They refused to give me clean clothes, showers, tooth paste, soap or toilet paper. I had to wipe myself with a towel! I weighed 224 pounds and now I weigh 211. The cells were dirty and nasty and ice cold. There was little food and it sucked. Ask my wife all they did to her and how badly they treated her. All of this was at the orders of the feds. She has never been arrested or in trouble for anything before. She worked hard in the bars she was partners in. She took care of her daughter, me and everybody else.
“When I was in the hole I finally managed to get something to write with, a couple of pieces of paper and an envelope from another convict. Believe me, that was not easy. I wrote my public defender about the conditions in the hole. I included a letter to my wife in the same envelope and asked the defender to send it to her but he never mailed that letter because he was afraid.”
As recently as a month ago Dan Bifield was denied a blanket to keep him warm at night. But the way the Government of the United States really punished the technically innocent Dan Bifield was by punishing his wife.”
The Tragic Love Story
A unique feature of this prosecution has been the use of wives as hostages to compel men to plead guilty to crimes they did not commit. At least four of the defendants in this case have been coerced this way. Somying Anderson is being prosecuted because she is married to a Hells Angel defendant named Bruce Long. Lisa Bifield was prosecuted because she is married to Diamond Dan.
In his life, as a Hells Angel, a sometime criminal and as a prisoner, Dan Bifield found reasons to be proud of himself. “People don’t know who I am,” he protested after his arrest. “I always talk to people with respect and courtesy. In my life I have helped children, women, families, career people, special needs children and abused children. I did not do any of that to impress people. I did it because I cared about them and wanted to help. It makes me feel good in my heart and it is the right thing to do. I say this as a husband, a man, a Hells Angel and a convict. I have never done anything I was ashamed of. My wife was always telling me that I can’t help everybody and that I was too trusting. That is just how I was.”
Not even prosecutors contest that that is how Dan Bifield was. Prison led Diamond Dan to a very Christian outlook on life.
“Whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth,” the educated, thoughtful and anonymous author of The Epistle of Paul The Apostle To The Hebrews wrote, “and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.” Whether you are a believer or not, even a news monkey must see that Diamond Dan Bifield glimpsed the big picture in prison. His suffering was not without meaning. God would see and care if he lived by a code.
And sure enough, after the government dumped him in South Carolina he found for his earthly reward the great love of his life. Her name was Lisa. And in the end prosecutors, for reasons God sees, used her to get the old outlaw.
“Anybody who knows me knows how I am,” he wrote to a friend. “I always helped my wife at the bar and watched over her. We always travelled together. We were a happy family. I never had a woman love me like she has. It hurts deeply that she is suffering because of me.”
“Now I’m fighting for my wife, my club and my life,” he wrote again. “I am at the point where I don’t care what they do to me. I may spend the rest of my life in prison but I would never sell out the people I love and believe in. I will never turn my back on any of them.”
One thing those who now judge Dan Bifield should consider is that when he listed what was worth fighting for he listed himself last after his wife and his club.
Dan and Lisa Bifield were finally reunited late in December, a day or two after Christmas. The reunion was brief. What they said to one another is nobody’s business but theirs. They talked and said goodbye and then he took the deal. The deal was that he would get twenty years in prison if she only had to do three.
That is the heartless bastard the government of the United States will now lock in a cage and throw away the key. This is what our government does. This is what the fourth estate ignores. This is who matters less than the squabbles of politicians. These are the news angles no reporter can find. Imagine the stories you will never read.
January 3rd, 2013 at 9:40 pm
First I want to thank Rebel for being the bulldog reporter he is for staying on this tragedy, second I need to send my heartfelt sorrow to Dan and Lisa. Stay strong, fuck the whole alphabet soup mutha fuckers.
January 3rd, 2013 at 9:53 pm
Excellent and poignant. Rebel, it may be that sometime in the future when others will look with incredulity at the excesses of our government much like we now look at the institution of slavery and cannot imagine men owning other men, your work will then be seminal, important.
But you will not enjoy any accolades from the bulk of your contemporaries simply because the subjects you write of are not important to the vast populace.
What you do though is give voice to those who are voiceless, silenced by the great machinery which grinds lives into forgettable pulp, assigns them a number and locks them away.
Mainstream media has extracted a headline or page-two story and moved on.
Van Gogh’s paintings have steadfastly graced 4 of the top 10 most expensive works of art in history, yet he never sold but one sketch while he lived.
Herman Melville’s “Moby Dick” did not even sell out the initial 1500 copies. 400 of them burned the next year in a warehouse fire. In 1930, it was one of the best selling books in the world and continues to be. Melville died thinking himself a failure, having taken a job as a night watchman.
Beethoven died mad and penniless. Three days after he was buried in a mass grave, his widow could not locate the spot to venerate it.
History is filled with men too far ahead or too behind their times.
I don’t presume to speak for any but myself, and I will never forget.
I’m not comparing you to those mentioned above, just drawing an analogy. What you do IS important and your perspective is like none I’ve ever seen.
May history be kind to you.
January 3rd, 2013 at 10:15 pm
3 my ass..She s looking at 5 minmium to life!! get it right!!
January 3rd, 2013 at 10:23 pm
3 years ..whatever… shes facing 5 yr min to life…..get your story straight.
January 3rd, 2013 at 10:49 pm
3yrs my ass…more like 5 minimun to life for my sister,,
January 3rd, 2013 at 11:37 pm
Thanks again Rebel. If not for you none of any of this would be out there. I was in that courtroom today along with maybe a dozen other family and friends. At one point we were told to sit on the left hand side of the gallery, “This side is for the Agents I’ve got coming in” we were told as if we were at a wedding. Dan turned and looked in our direction a few times, a smile or anod now and then. For me it was like a death in the family but not Dan’s demise
Rather, it was the fullness of my realization that America is dead and gone. I refuse to be bitter or hateful as that will only serve to poison me. I too heard 5 to life for Lisa. Like almost everything else I saw and heard today, I’m confused as to what it all really means for all concerned. I’ve had to reevaluate myself and all I thought I knew.
Thanks again Rebel. Job well done.
January 4th, 2013 at 3:16 am
I Still cant beleive the shit the American Government is allowed to get away with, and thank fuck that I’m in the UK far away from RICO’s fangs
Stay Strong Dan, the people that matter know how badly you’ve been screwed
January 4th, 2013 at 7:47 am
I remember reading, at 7 or 8 years old, “I Am A Fugitive From a Georgia Chain Gang”, the story of Robert Elliot Burns, a railroaded convict who escaped from brutal chain gangs twice. The story moved me to anger at a system I had been told was just and right. As I recall, it was then that I realized that I was not going to be a law respecting citizen. From that moment on, I hated the government, hated law enforcement, and hated the willfully ignorant people of the world that perpetrated the lies.
Rebel, this story similarly moves me. Thank you for telling it. I wish Dan and his loved ones the very best possible and hope his co-defendants have better outcomes.
January 4th, 2013 at 8:03 am
Very informative and well written. You left out the biggest lie told so far by our government to justify taking action against someone they didn’t like, the WMDs in Iraq that were never found. You noted there was no press coverage, that might be because they don’t want any, the government wants to tell their side and twist the so called facts to support what they believe, not always what they can proove.
Small minded people who lack the self confidence and ability to think independantly will always fear a real man, that dares to be an individual and think for himself, not blindly accepting what he is told and willing to stand up for what is right, even if it is not popular.
Unfortunately this “fear” and those who have it, has taken control of our government, law enforcement, and court system. Until we start voting by individual and not political party, demanding a trial by our peers, and standing up for our rights I am afraid this is only going to get worse.
January 4th, 2013 at 9:02 am
Now our world has lost 2 old time originals.
White Bear 13 1% PMC Ride in Peace
Diamond Dan 1% HAMC Stands for his beliefs and incarcerated for life.
These men have set an example by their lives we would all do well to emulate.
January 4th, 2013 at 12:03 pm
Very disapointing situation.
Fuck the feds every last one of them slimmy inhumane kiss ass cock suckers. Piece of shit whale turds.
VFFV LVDV
Viva Los Vagos
January 4th, 2013 at 4:07 pm
Cherish any freedoms you have for as long as you have them.
The suppressive forces are in power. And as all great civilizations of the past that have been overcome by suppression; ours too will perish.
VFFV LVDV
January 4th, 2013 at 4:50 pm
Rebel………..I can only imagine the anger you must feel reporting this mockery of “justice.” Thank you for all you do, especially since in the doing, you expose the beast our government has become.
It makes me sick to read about Dan and others you’ve given noteriety to,
all the others who are sucked into the giant maw of government “righteousness.”
I am enlightemened once more, and sickened once more, but also enriched once more.
Thank you again.
January 4th, 2013 at 6:12 pm
the Federal Bureau of Instigations take on it:
http://www.fbi.gov/columbia/press-releases/2013/hells-angels-member-diamond-dan-bifield-pleads-guilty-to-federal-racketeering-conspiracy
January 4th, 2013 at 6:41 pm
this shit really turns my stomach,
@AVAGOVFFV
I couldnt have said it better myself,
America is fucked beyond all repair,and you can thank your local pigs and fed. abc gangs for destroying a once great and free country.
R.I.P. Freedom.
ACAB FTP FTF FTATF FTG
January 5th, 2013 at 6:55 am
THANK YOU Reb for ALWAYS being very clear, consistent and lucid in your reportage. It just boggles my mind that these things are allowed to occur with an ever increasing rate of frequency. Im sure the Founding fathers would be spinnin in their graves if they were to see the state of this once great beautiful “Grand Experiment”. I feel for all those caught up i this spiders web. This country is now “dead”….i mean that with still some reserve of patriotism and love for MY country but for all intents n purposes the Norman Rockwell image of America, the flag waving apple pie eating Fourth of July Johnny Boy America is dead and we have no one to blame but ourselves for lettin the wolves in thru the back door. I hope things take a btter twist with this sad case.
Peace
January 5th, 2013 at 7:42 am
Cache your weapons and stock up on ammo and other essential supplies before it’s too late. Amerika is done, and it’s going down, it’s jut a question of what will spark the opening of the final chapter.
The only thing positive I can take out of this whole shit-sandwich is that whatever dungeon the Beast puts Mr. Bifield in will gain a good, harcore, White leader.
The Only Solution is Another Revolution.
FTF / FTP
January 5th, 2013 at 9:10 am
Jim666,
Years ago there was a futuristic book written I can’t remember maybe it was Ball that wrote it. It detailed a time when outlaws and motorcyles were banned by government stormtroopers and we were no more. I believe we’re seeing something happening that was far out and unlikely fourty years ago but now slowly becoming our reality.
Our feds, local leo’s know they can’t win overnight instead they have been working with other countrties with a biker menace and plotting to take small bites and perfecting their game while citizens look on like good grazing bovine.
We will fight on
VFFV LVDV
Viva Los Vagos
January 5th, 2013 at 9:25 am
@Stroker,
Do a google search and you will find that every media outlet has the same thing written nearly word for word. Just like the old USSR, we have state run news and nothing is released without government approval.
L&R,
warthog
FTP FTF FTW
January 5th, 2013 at 10:14 am
AVAGOVFFV.
I remember reading a book yrs ago in county jail that is very simular to the one your talking about, my mind is a little fuzzy about that period in my life.lol, But possably the same book,
Speaking of small bites, I am in the process of a battle w/ a certian pig/cop,and courts here where I live, the whole thing is bullshit and has to do w/ a simple driving charge that was blown up into a few misdominers and 2 felonies, I was offered a plea in the case which was told by my Lawyer might be a better deal for me than letting a jury decide my fate so I took the deal, ended up w/ somewhere in the range of 70 something days to pull out of a 4 yr sentence, Heres where the thing gets strange, My lawyer said she would call me and let me know when the court date will be, now I signed the paper work for the plea back in sept.or oct early, dont remember which but I posted here somewhere that day about it, I,ll have to look thru my comments to find the post, anyway I never got that call from my lawyer as to the time and date of my sentencing.
Now this morning after the mail ran I get a letter from another attournys office saying he is defending me in circut court in front of a jury on feb 6th 2013. and looks forward to hearing from me to discuss my case..
WTF????????????
Does this sound strange to you ? Did the prosocution back out of the deal ? am I screwed ? I mean what the fuck ??
I dont want to make many comments here on this thread as it,s about Dan his family friends and crew, not me, but will gladly answer any questions about this b/s on the saloon thread,
and yes, “We will fight on”
FTP FTF FTG
January 5th, 2013 at 12:40 pm
Jim666,
I am not a lawyer or advise as such but it sounds goofy. Don’ t sit idle get online make sure you don’ t have a warrant (most county and distict courts will have case activity online) then contact your last attorney.
Shyster may be able to provide accurate and more professional advice than I.
VFFV LVDV
Viva Los Vagos
January 5th, 2013 at 1:31 pm
#AVAGOVFFV/Jim666 – I don’t recalling reading a dystopian novel about motorcycles and outlaws ceasing to exist thanks to a repressive guvmint. Perhaps it was actually a short story in Easyriders?
I did, however, read something comparable published in 1978 although it has nothing to do with motorcycles. Been OOP for quite awhile, but still available online as a used paperback. Google: “On Wheels John Jakes”
Communes of mechanized nomads rolling endlessly across America in a perpetual quest for speed. Supercharged tribes with no destination, no loyalty, and only one law–never stop. Their only dream, desire or destiny is a gasoline-fume fantasy of the fastest machine roaring through the night.
January 5th, 2013 at 5:58 pm
Jim666/Rebel,
Rebel, please send Jim my personal e-mail address. I will be happy to make some calls for him.
Shyster
January 5th, 2013 at 6:39 pm
delete mine i misunderstood what was going on
thanks
January 5th, 2013 at 8:11 pm
Jim, check your e-mail.
With respect.
Sieg
FTF / FTP
TOSIAR
January 5th, 2013 at 10:22 pm
Diamond and the rest of the family stay strong this is some bullshit…government IIS so fucked up it’s not right.. They all are innocent and they are loving caring ppl and yall just going to throw away the key no that’s fucked up I love yall much love and respect for all of you…. I’m so sorry yall are having to go through this bullshit…
January 5th, 2013 at 10:53 pm
I’m sorry I understand what he did but they innocent so I don’t understand
January 6th, 2013 at 5:20 pm
I keep telling my friends and family, in light of the upcoming gun bans/confiscations, there will be no middle ground with the running dogs of the law. They think the cops are mostly honorable people who won’t participate. I think we all know better. It’s mind boggling how fucked up everything’s gotten, and how quickly it happened.
~Philo
January 6th, 2013 at 5:25 pm
I see the comment glitch is still lurking. Why does it say, “donniesouthphilly” every time I comment!?
January 6th, 2013 at 7:07 pm
Dear Philo,
The short answer is an unresolved bug in W3 cache. You are seeing the name of the file that caches comments.
Rebel
January 7th, 2013 at 8:27 am
CAUTION: Shyster claims to be an Attorney but cited the dental professions code as the professions code that governs him. He also claimed that the Supreme Court was wrong when it stated that individuals can kill cops effecting unlawful arrests. I suspect shyster is a gov’t flunky here to troll for and gather information and mis-lead.
ANYONE ON-LINE CAN CLAIM TO BE ANYTHING. WHAT’S YOUR BAR # SHYSTER???
-Junior
January 7th, 2013 at 8:55 am
Jr: For a guy who said on his last post that he is done commenting here, you talk alot of shit.
Take your show to the Saloon thread it don’t belong here.
KK
January 7th, 2013 at 10:06 am
I wish the very best for Dan & Lisa & family. 1984 has been here for a while & the United States many of us remember is now gone. R I P
FTP FTG FTW
January 7th, 2013 at 10:56 am
Dear Junior,
I personally know Shyster. He is an attorney. I got a cup of coffee in his conference room. I know his bar number.
Okay?
Rebel
January 7th, 2013 at 11:12 am
Dear Irene,
Actual innocent or guilt does not matter very much in federal court. After you are arrested on a RICO charge you are probably going to end up being pronounced guilty. So after the arrest it becomes a lot about how you play the game. The remaining defendants in the Bifield case have a good chance of acquittal. At least that is what I have been told. I believe In Bifield’s instance, he made what he thought was both the smart and the moral move for everybody in the case. He took the blame. We’ll see how it all works out.
Rebel
January 7th, 2013 at 9:21 pm
Great job Reb.
January 8th, 2013 at 7:38 am
I know nothing of Mr. Bifield but what has been stated here and do not intend to make any comments directed at him or his case. So lets imagine someone we don’t know but probably had similiar options as most of us who gets convicted of a crime. If in fact guilty his victims would probably not describe him as a “moral man”. While incarcerated he runs a scam, whatever he does with the proceeds. Does this make him a stand up guy or a habitual criminal. Doesn’t matter what bankers get away with, you answer for yourself not them. Maybe they’re just smarter criminals than you. I love clever word play but I guess I’m too stoopid to grasp the nuance on the difference between committing crimes and being a criminal. After the first time you can’t go back to being a virgin. Really too bad about the quality of health care inmates receive. I can relate, being uninsured and permanently disabled with work related injuries. Get no compensation from anyone by the way. Doubt I’ll ever visit Bahama but if I’m there as an escapee from supermax I’ll plan on staying. RVN69,I know you refer to the best qualities of these men you suggest I emulate but I get a little nervous noting one is deceased and another locked up. Guess that’s why I’m possibly a Fucktard but alive and outside. I,m careful about emulation and self immolation. I’m not a cop or a snitch or any such thing and know I could run afoul of them too with or without a reason. So it’s on me to keep my ass covered and my eyes open and not expect fairness or truth and justice that remain more of an ideal than a reality. When has it ever been different?
January 8th, 2013 at 8:54 am
possible fucktard said: “If in fact guilty his victims would probably not describe him as a “moral man””
Even if the allegations against Mr. Bifield and the others are true, I’m not sure who the “victims” are in this case. The government might say “society” is the victim, the usual faulty logic in malum prohibium “crimes”, but all that means is someone didn’t do as he was told. Also, even if the allegations are true, even if one accepts every single element of the government’s position as true, who is the villain-in-chief; the Bifields, et al, or the government agents that instigated the “crimes”? Which party to the case caused the “crimes” to be committed, the defendants or the government?
The citizenry has come to cheer entrapment under the clever catchphrase of “sting operation”. The supreme court has co-signed the bullshit as “merely presenting the opportunity to commit a crime”. The media supports the government. The reality of it is that the government is out spending our tax money to entice selected people to break one of the too-many laws that would otherwise not be broken and the citizenry is just fine with that as long as the victims of entrapment dress differently and use a different mode of transportation than they do (which makes the victims “them” rather than “us”). If the government tried that shit with the Jaycees, it might have the same legal results, but the media might dust off the practice of in-depth, balanced reporting, the jury might refuse to convict, and the congress might ban “sting operations”. With that in mind, in deciding who is the “bad guy” in the situation being discussed, I have to say the government.
possible fucktard said: ” Does this make him a stand up guy or a habitual criminal.”
Everybody is a habitual criminal these days. There are so many laws on the books that even the lawyers can’t keep up with them all. Most people unknowingly break the law several times a day. Books have been written on the subject. The prevalence of vague and ambiguous laws renders the term “habitual criminal” meaningless. We’re no longer in the days when Marshal Matt Dillon or Sheriff Andy Taylor protected the hard working American citizens from evil predators. These days, its just a question of whether or not they want to lock you up for something given finite resources requiring some degree of prioritization. Fucking the mayor’s daughter? Offended somebody important? Better watch out.
January 8th, 2013 at 10:54 am
16 U.S.C. § 3370
Says we are all criminals. Habitually. A man has to eat.
How do you obide by this?
“It is unlawful for any person… to import, export, transport, sell, receive, aquire, or purchase any fish or wildlife or plant taken, possessed, transported, or sold in violation of any law, treaty, or regulation of the United States or in violation of any Indian tribal law, state law or Forign law.
From: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wXkI4t7nuc
January 8th, 2013 at 1:08 pm
Excellent video, BadMagic. Thanks for posting.
L&R,
warthog
FTP FTF FTW
January 8th, 2013 at 1:38 pm
Possible Fucktard,
My respect for both men is they not only swore themselves to the outlaw code, but actually lived it. Neither man ever turned rat even when the oppertunity was presented to them, even if they didn’t do the crime, they did the time. In an age when many people blame all their problems on others and actually profit from lying about the activities of others I find this refreshing. I don’t know what they ever did in their lives, not do I care. Never met Diamond Dan but my club found him to be a courteous man who could be talked to on issues. Never met White Bear 13 1% but did have internet contact with him for a couple of years, he was intelligent, well read and reasonable. He wanted only the best for his club and did not seek conflict with others. FYI he died of Natural causes.
“Sometimes the majority only means all the fools are on the same side.”
January 8th, 2013 at 4:44 pm
RVN69,
While I never knew either of these men, I do understand what it takes (or used to take) to live by the Outlaw Code. I was “schooled” on this back in the summer of ’79. To this day, I apply those principles to my life. People who don’t follow this code will never get it. I think many people who post here do get it. Alot don’t seem to.
It seems to me that while men of Dan and White Bear’s caliber are still out there – there are getting to be fewer and fewer of them. Many are gone from this world now – more are being lost everyday.
There are 3 pc patchholders in my family currently. They are not 1%’rs – nor are they LE or RC Clubs. I see and hear things that sometimes cause me to just shake my head and think to myself “that shit wouldn’t fly back in the day”.
Maybe I’m just getting old, maybe its a generational thing. It’s just different now.
I do think that the Govt is out to make Outlaw Bikers extinct. I think that’s wrong. I think their tactics are wrong. I am glad Rebel does what he can to bring light to these things – ain’t nobody else doing that that I know of.
I think what happened to Dan and Lisa is very wrong. I think Dan is a stand up guy.
Not sure this is the proper place for this post. I know my opinion doesn’t really matter.
Much respect to those who continue to live by and honor “the code”.
RIP to all those who are no longer with us.
sherides
January 8th, 2013 at 4:53 pm
GlennS.
I did not mean to refer to the current case. I have no opinion on that.I meant any previous convictions where based on actual guilt. I only mean to say that not every crime is victimless and not everyone doing time is innocent.
January 8th, 2013 at 5:03 pm
RVN69
Thanks,for your response. Both men seem to be well thought of by all who knew them and I mean no disrespect. My apologies for joking about a serious subject.
January 8th, 2013 at 5:17 pm
@ possible fucktard
You said “I meant any previous convictions where based on actual guilt.”
from experiance I can assure you not every conviction means you are necessarily guilty.
Ive known a lot of men that were found guilty and sentenced to jail/ prison time that were completly innocent.
they were men, they kept their mouths shut and did the time handed to them .
Some took it up w/ the person that they did the time for afterward.
The Govt.s justice system is far from fair and severely broken.
This federal entrapment case is complete bullshit to unjustly hang an innocent man.
Jim
January 8th, 2013 at 6:02 pm
possible fucktard, are you aware of the term “straw man argument?” Your post at 1/8 7:38 a.m. comes mighty close.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man
January 8th, 2013 at 6:31 pm
swampy
Had to look it up actually. I don’t know that I’m taking a position here. I just don’t think there was ever a time or place where cops or courts or governments were clean and uncorrupted and why should anyone expect different now. Hey, I believe in truth, justice, and the American way but I learned everything I know from reading Superman comic books and watching Perry Mason reruns in Mayberry.
January 8th, 2013 at 7:13 pm
possible fucktard Says:
January 8th, 2013 at 6:31 pm
Hey, I believe in truth, justice, and the American way but I learned everything I know from reading Superman comic books and watching Perry Mason reruns in Mayberry.
“evidently”
January 8th, 2013 at 8:03 pm
BadMagic,
That’s the same federal law that Gibson Guitars was hassled over. FTF
Respect.
January 9th, 2013 at 12:29 am
Junior,
I see you haven’t kept to your New Years Resolution to stop being a fucken asshole. I’m currently defending a case in an ongoing jury trial where my client is facing a mandatory minimum of 5 years State Prison. His maximum exposure is 9 years. I bit my tongue for a couple hours and felt I could/should not respond to your lame dysfunctional ass. I really don’t have time to respond to you as I have opening statements at 10am tomorrow. Despite my being engaged in trial, I took the time this week to do some research for Jim666. I think he might have even been appreciated it. He knows my name, address, bar number, fax number, website address and phone number. As does Rebel, who I have met in person and Paladin who I have spoken to over the phone and who also has my website, e-mail address, business address and cell phone number. In addition, I think AVAGOVFFV may know exactly who I am as well.
You claim I am a troll and possibly someone who works for the govt. You stated that I didn’t even know what Professions Code governs lawyers here in California. I mistyped the Professions code and transposed a number by mistake asshole. It happens. For the last 60 minutes or so I went back and read many of your posts. You have beefed with Rashomon in the past, Friend of HAMC, Tricky Tramp, etc. Just to name a few. What exactly is your fucken problem. I seem to remember you once claimed to be a member of the Marines MC. Is that right? No Marine I know acts the whining sniveling cunt that you have. When you started your bitch tirade against me 6 weeks ago you told everyone on this site that the USSC has held in the John Bad Elk case that citizens of this country can legally kill a cop who is effectuating an unlawful arrest. I told you then you stupid mother fucker that the United States Supreme Court has never ever held that. You even told readers of this blog something to the effect that “and look kids, your friends can kill cops too.”
YOU ARE THE FUCKING TROLL!. You are giving 100% incorrect legal advice. When I shepardized the Bad Elk case, my WestLaw account had a yellow flag warning that read “beware- negative treatment, superseded by Statute!!” then I went one step further and I actually read the case. You stupid dick, the case was remanded back to the trial court with specific instructions to the trial court to instruct the jury as to a manslaughter jury instruction! Manslaughter dumbfuck. You know what that is. An unlawful killing!
You are telling readers here that they have legal carte Blanche to kill any cop who is performing an unlawful arrest on them. That shit will get someone killed by a cop!
You demand my Bar number. Why? Rebel already mentioned in a previous post that he has been to my office. Why did you crawl back out from under your rock? Remember that electronic petition that you posted which you claimed was for Bifield. The one Tricky Tramp called you out on as not being authorized by Bifield or his club. People, likely readers here, at your request signed that with their legal names. I dont need to know what The last name of Glenn S is but I do thanks to your “petition.” And when Tricky Tramp demanded you e-mail him to discuss your claimed authorization to post the petition, you posted that you conveniently didn’t have e-mail access for 7 days. Why the demand for all this personal information?
Do the site a favor … Go fuck yourself.
Shyster
January 9th, 2013 at 8:39 am
possible fucktard said: “I only mean to say that not every crime is victimless and not everyone doing time is innocent.”
With rare exceptions (child molestation, thrill killings, etc.) the legal consequences these days are far out of proportion to the offense, victimless or not. For example, if somebody steals five dollars, somebody is a victim. But does the thief deserve five years as a consequence? I think not. And the strategies and tactics of law enforcement in general do a lot more harm than good, IMHO. In looking at the big picture of crime and punishment in the USA today, there is no way to morally justify the government’s actions.
From my observations during over a decade in SC prisons, I came to the conclusion that about 10% of prisoners are not only innocent of the charges they were convicted of (or pled guilty to), but generally law abiding. Another 10% were truly evil fucks, crazy evil, regardless of the crime they were convicted of or the sentence they received (often lenient because this type is more likely to rat). The other 80% was somewhere in the gray area: guilty but not guilty as charged, guilty but over sentenced by anyone’s sense of proportion, persecuted for reasons other than the offense supposedly committed (as in the case we’re discussing here), 18-year-old high school senior fucking his 16-year-old high school junior girlfriend etc. And my experiences and observations (for what they’re worth) taught me that the system does a piss poor job of determining which “criminals” are the truly evil fucks that society should be protected from and which are not. The 18-year-old high school senior I’m thinking of was denied parole a few years later, despite the fact that when the girlfriend came of age, she married the guy in prison. Leniency towards rats is one of their worse practices, because the rats get out sooner and do more crazy evil shit than the average “criminal”. I’m a little surprised that the victims’ rights organizations have put up with those practices.
Nothing I’ve heard here or elsewhere even suggests that the Bifields or their co-defendants are in any way evil. Mr. Bifield “paid his debt to society” (and then some, IMHO) for any possible previous “crimes”. They deserve our support and their prosecutors deserve our contempt.
January 9th, 2013 at 11:09 am
Shyster: Happy New Year! Thanks for your time as well helping all of us out here.
KK
January 9th, 2013 at 1:27 pm
@Junior,
I think you owe Shyster a public apoligie. Whether you want to believe it or not Shyster is an attorney, and has done some research for me,
and has given me more knowledge to my case that my two previous lawyers.
My opinion on this,since you keep making public insults to the man a public Apoligie is in order,
You are wrong, Man up .
Jim
Thank you Shyster for all your help, You may very well be one of a kind
Respects Jim
January 9th, 2013 at 4:18 pm
Shyster,
Hope that trial works out.
As I have said before, that troll that calls itself Junior is not worth any of your time and attention. Actually it isn’t worth any of our time or attention. Perhaps now it will crawl back under its rock.
Respect.
January 9th, 2013 at 7:42 pm
Shyster@we all appreciate your input.You used valuable time responding to that hater(did Junior also exhort us to not pay taxes ,in addition to other shit?).
January 9th, 2013 at 11:01 pm
Junior,
For what its worth, I’ve been reading Shyster’s posts for about a year now and his words have always had the ring of truth. I not only believe he is who and what he says he is, but I also believe he is one of the good lawyers and an honorable man. Add the fact that both Rebel and Jim666 have validated his bona fides, that makes him one of the few here that we can have reason to believe is exactly who he claims to be.
I’ve agreed with your posts often on this site. But on this issue, I do not.
Glenn
January 10th, 2013 at 8:00 pm
It is good that some of you respectfully disagree with me. It means you can think and reason on your own, a sign of good character indeed!
KK: didn’t say I wasn’t commenting here anymore, did say I’d be commenting a lot less. Either way it’s not your business.
To “the one who defecates”: A moron of a client will always choose his representatives in-kind. I never made a new years resolution to quit being an asshole…don’t believe in New Years resolutions;if someone can’t accomplish something in the 12 month period from Jan 2 to Dec 31st, making a “new years resolution” is a waste of your fucking time anyway. Keep running your mouth, it’ll get closed one day. You use a lot of big boy words …”cunt” …”mother fucker”…”asshole”… disrespectful to boot. I wonder when you may have the opportunity to clarify all those big words? When it comes to “whining sniveling cunts”, I think you got me beat, you are the one who wears loafers & bow-ties to work; re-read your own post a few times. I posted to warn others about the officer of the court (which you are) and supposed “attorney” that claims the dental professions code as his own and states that statute supersedes the Supreme Court, which is an absolutely absurd statement. Yeah, I got a big problem with a supposed professional attorney making such a statement. Why don’t you try and explain, fundamentally, how statute supersedes the Supreme Court of the U.S. We are all interested in hearing this profound explanation from such a trail-blazing bow-tied barrister who cites dental codes and says things like “statute supersedes the Supreme Court”. You won’t.
Those who refer to me as troll: Pick up a book and read sometime, if the statement “statute supersedes the Supreme Court” doesn’t appear incredibly fucking absurd to you then reading another law book and/or the Constitution until it does.
Those that want me to apologize to shyster: I don’t apologize.
However, the one who defecates owes me an apology for running his shit-stained lips and will eventually eat his words. In our going back and forth, I’ve kept all things “above board” , cited cases and pointed out inconsistencies and incorrect statements and never referred to anyone as asshole, or cunt, or mother fucker as was directed at me.
You also owe all your preppie, bow-tie and penny-loafer wearing law practitioner friends and other shit-stain lipped friends and fellow “officers of the court” an apology for incorrectly claiming the dental professions code as your own and making the absurdly fucking retarded statement that “statute supersedes the Supreme Court”. I know, I know, not all law school flunkies are required to take a Constitutional Law course prior to receiving the JD, but you really should not have skipped that one. Maybe I should copy and paste those statements of yours into a letter addressed to the california BAR, they may find them more interesting than I do.
I suggest you ALL read a law book until the statement “statute supercedes the Supreme Court” appears as absurd to you as it does to me. -Junior
January 10th, 2013 at 8:36 pm
Shyster wrote: “Remember that electronic petition that you posted which you claimed was for Bifield. The one Tricky Tramp called you out on as not being authorized by Bifield or his club.”
Yes, of course I remember it, I was asked to write it. It is none of your business who asked me to write it, but know this: No further explanation, keep your nose out of club on club shit, you mouthy little fuck, got it!
People, likely readers here, at your request signed that with their legal names. I dont need to know what The last name of Glenn S is but I do thanks to your “petition.” And when Tricky Tramp demanded you e-mail him to discuss your claimed authorization to post the petition, you posted that you conveniently didn’t have e-mail access for 7 days.
The reason that you know Glenn S’s last name is because he chose to put it there, not because I wrote the petition. Tricky Tramp and myself communicated off list and resolved HIS misunderstanding. Dan’s charter knows why I wrote the petition. You have no dog in this fight so kindly fuck off! You sticking your fucking nose where it don’t belong will catch up to you one day. I posted that I didn’t have email access for 7 days because I didn’t have email access for 7 days, don’t care if you believe it or not. Why don’t you go and find somewhere else to stick your nose, while you’re at it find something to choke on you piece of shit and stay out of club business that does not involve you. -Junior
January 10th, 2013 at 11:12 pm
Junior said: “The reason that you know Glenn S’s last name is because he chose to put it there.”
I’m not all that concerned about it. If I were, I wouldn’t have used my first name and last initial, wouldn’t have posted a photo as an avatar, wouldn’t have mentioned my home town. I don’t use my full name here because I might need to apply for a job again someday and HR departments do web searches. I don’t say anything online I won’t say otherwise and try to show respect to everybody that might have earned it until proven otherwise. In the immortal words of Lynard Skynard, “I’m not hiding from nobody, nobody’s hiding from me.” What you see is what you get, online and in the real world. Besides, I assume that the feds have the technology to hack into Rebel’s servers. If I weren’t clean these days, I wouldn’t have an online presence at all.
But I get Shyster’s point.
January 11th, 2013 at 9:58 am
GlennS
Agree with all you say. I would like to point out a couple things that influence my thinking. Again,I am generalizing and not referring to any individual. I am not talking about a businessman that misfiles paperwork or old ladies trading in heart pills.I mean profesional parasites and predators who violate the honor system at everyone else’s expense because thy don’t care to make the necessary sacrifice to earn an honest living. As a victim of repeat petty crime and global economic collapse I cannot regard the perps with any more regard than they had for the hard work I put into acquiring that property. So fuck’em. They’re lucky I didn’t catch them or it would be my trial. The $ amount is not relevant. I also can’t understand, frankly, how notoriously secretive “outlaw” clubs get repeatedly infiltrated by the exact same individuals using the same dirty tricks. They’re out there right now doing it again to somebody who is vulnerable due to personal history or current affiliation. Sure they’re sneaky bastards. Be sneakier. Or did I already blow that by commenting here? Like ya, say , sometimes pays to be clean.
January 13th, 2013 at 11:55 pm
@possible Fucktard,
Nobody says the word “perp” except for LE, so as for being sneaky yeaaaa not so much. On the other hand…maybe, just maybe LE is already infultrated and they just don’t know it yet.
Maybe in all it’s arrogance, LE swept up someone of no importance compared to Dan, but very important to someone else.Maybe, that person was the absolute wrong person to make mad because they were the perfect storm of clean and knowledge and skill and …treachery?That would surely fuck things up huh?
January 16th, 2013 at 5:01 pm
Anti Fucktard
Thanks for your response. Don’t follow you but I’ll say again I’m not LE, never have been. I am pointing out that burglars, embezzlers,dirty cops and crooked politicians are all guilty of the same thing in their own way to different degrees. I only hear that word on TV. As I said before this is the source of many people’s expectations of the legal system but this whole site is about documenting how it works in the real world, isn’t it?
January 16th, 2013 at 8:15 pm
antifucktard@good points.Far be it from us to help LEO’s to hone their tradecraft,but perps,skells ,shit like that are dead giveaways.I recall a letter to the editor to the old school Easyriders ,where it was ascertained that phrases such as “Big Five” etc.were LEO phishing.”OMC”"OMG”,yeah.A dude can tell by a speaker’s bogus jargon where he’s coming from.I know I speak the obvious,but shit.”Not LE,never have been”Yeah right ,motherfucker.Kind of like a comedian having to explain his dumbass joke.
January 17th, 2013 at 6:57 am
Possible Fucktard
I agree with you…. Fuck sneak thief pussies..A man that I respect greatly once said about sneak thieves: “I’d rather have some motherfucker come up and kick my fuckin ass and take my wallet then have some bitch sneak off with my shit when I ain’t lookin’” pretty much sums it up perfect don’t it.
10g
January 17th, 2013 at 8:03 am
This shit is out of hand…. Stop.
Move the fuck on already this whole thing is sounding like a bunch of PMS raging bitches. Yes Shyster is a criminal attorney and I do know he walks the walk. People that post here say shit I don’t like often and I usually ignore it for a time then I send out a simple fuck you when it goes to far and go about my business.
If you have that big of a issue take the shit offline and handle your beef.
VFFV LVDV
Viva Los Vagos
January 18th, 2013 at 9:45 am
Rebel:
What happened to Shysters post? In his original post supra he referred to me as ”cunt” …”mother fucker”…and ”asshole”, and then after I responded to his childish rant all of those big words disappeared. Did you clean it up for him or allow him to clean it up and re-post? Now that the post was edited/changed I look like I’m responding to something that wasn’t written…If this is what happened, that’s pretty dirty on your part if you ask me. If you did not clean up his post nor allow him to clean up the post then what happened to the cursing temper-tantrum portion of his post, it vanished ? -Junior
January 18th, 2013 at 9:55 am
AVAGOVFFV:
Are you telling me to “move the fuck on already”? I assume that your comment about PMS raging bitches referred to Shysters unedited post before it got cleaned up somehow. Why do you, a supposed PH see it fit to stick your nose where it doesn’t belong? I don’t trust shyster, he is an officer of the court. If you trust him, great, but dont go sticking your nose into somewhere where it doesn’t belong. -Junior
January 18th, 2013 at 10:26 am
Fuck you Junior…You would not know respect if you tripped over it asshole. Don’t let your gator sized mouth overlaod your tadpole ass.
Now that you lit tbe fire…. So tell me what club are you refering to in these comments? The third one sounds like snitching to me but I would like you to explain the context that was meant in that statement.
“Yes, of course I remember it, I was asked to write it. It is none of your business who asked me to write it, but know this: No further explanation, keep your nose out of club on club shit, you mouthy little fuck, got it!”
“Why don’t you go and find somewhere else to stick your nose, while you’re at it find something to choke on you piece of shit and stay out of club business that does not involve you. -Junior”
“Maybe I should copy and paste those statements of yours into a letter addressed to the california BAR, they may find them more interesting than I do.”
VFFV LVDV
Viva Los Vagos
January 18th, 2013 at 10:59 am
Junior,
Out of repect for Dan we’ll now move this shit to the saloon where it belongs.
VFFV LVDV
Viva Los Vagos
January 18th, 2013 at 1:18 pm
Dear AVAGOVFFV and anyone else,
I may be doing a little story about a distinguished author and great American hero named George Rowe. We will see. Touchstone Books tells me the guy is up for an interview. But that was a couple weeks ago. His handler was John Carr.
About George’s masterwork, God’s of Mischief, New York Times best selling author Agent Jay says, “Gods of Mischief cuts through the fear and Hollywood glamorization, puts you on a bike, and rides you right into the Green Nation.”
New York Times best selling author Billy Slow Brain raves, “Oh my God, what a story. This is a dangerous and emotional page turner that’s going to leave you thinking to yourself, ‘My life’s not so bad after all.’ Reading Gods of Mischief is like sitting right next to George Rowe listening to him tell it.”
Anybody who has crossed paths with this individual who knows something about him that the world should know, please drop me a line.
Your pal,
Rebel
January 18th, 2013 at 1:23 pm
Middle initial, rough DOB, anything else to narrow it down?
January 18th, 2013 at 1:27 pm
Dear Junior,
Stop calling everybody a snitch. As a rule, people gets pretty pissed off when somebody calls them a snitch. I imagine it can be great fun but things get paranoid enough around here. How about, next time, you change up. Instead of calling somebody here a snitch, you go to a bar, pick out somebody you think is suspicious, and in a loud, clear voice announce, “I DON’T TRUST YOU! YOU LOOK LIKE A SNITCH TO ME! EVERYBODY! DON’T LISTEN TO A WORD THIS GUY SAYS! DON’T TRUST HIM! I THINK HE IS A SNITCH!”
Okay?
Rebel
January 18th, 2013 at 1:42 pm
Dear Junior,
I don’t know. Anybody who wants to, including you, can request a comment deletion. A robot sends another robot a message and that second robot sends the comment deletion request to me as an email and I always delete the comment on request. Sometimes, among a billion other fucking things I do to keep the site up-to-date, I come here and approve comments held for moderation before I check my email. So then a comment that is approved suddenly just disappears! Oh MY GAWD! REBEL MUST BE FBI!
You know, Junior, over the years I have had people comment that I am a child molester and I can’t get a job so that is why I author this site. I have had commenters say over and over that they have proof I am a cop. Most of these commenters are people who want to discredit me or shut me up. An unsurprising number of them have been federal agents. I recently told a defense attorney, in a case in which I am trying behind the scenes a little, to try to help out some defenadants I don’t know, that I taught John Ciccone to use a proxy server.
Recently, somebody accused me of using this site as a honeypot in cooperation with the feds. But I have never before had somebody tell me I should do a better job of checking my email before I approve comments.
Now how about if you roll a skinny one and try to have a nice, stress-free day. Please stop shitting on this site. Okay, Junior?
Rebel
January 18th, 2013 at 1:55 pm
Dear Sieg,
“George Rowe is originally from Hemet, California. He is now being protected by the U.S. Witness Protection Program.”
Some people know who he is.
Rebel
January 18th, 2013 at 2:12 pm
Just doin my skiptrace thang, Rebel. his record is scoured in Ca.
January 18th, 2013 at 4:27 pm
Junior: No offense, but at least on my computers, Shyster’s post remains as originally stated, with all those “big boy words” intact.