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Outlawing A Motorcycle Club
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...Clarification On Battle Over Marks
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...New Battle Over Mongols Marks
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...Slices Of Rebel’s World
29. June 2010
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 [...]
Continue reading...The Derringer In Doza’s Hand
4. June 2010
There were three people in the Rogues Motorcycle Club clubhouse in Tulsa when it was shock and awed at dawn on April 9th. One of them, Russell Doza, was shot between seven and nine times and killed. He was shot in the side and the back. Two of the shots entered his neck around the [...]
Continue reading...Using Prosecution For Punishment
2. June 2010
The Mongols case has always been a travesty of justice but that is not the worst of it. The unrestrained psychopathy that has characterized the investigation and prosecution of this case is startling. The idea was always to “get the Mongols” without ever really examining who the “Mongols” were or what it was about them [...]
Continue reading...Obama Snubs Rolling Thunder Again
1. June 2010
Breaking a tradition that lasted about a decade, organizers of Rolling Thunder were locked out of the White House this year. Rolling Thunder is an annual motorcycle parade from Arlington, Virginia to the National Mall in Washington. Rolling Thunder began in 1987 as an adjunct to a quasi-outlaw, transcontinental motorcycle ride called the Run To [...]
Continue reading...Swat Murdered Russell Doza
3. May 2010
There was another Swat murder last month in Tulsa. Russell Doza, 49, was the victim of the new American style of policing: Which is not so much malicious as it is a crude mix of self dramatization and brazen incompetence. Doza is survived by a memo from the Oklahoma City office of the FBI that [...]
Continue reading...The Poker Run
27. April 2010
Where you are going is always where you are. The destination is always the getting there. So at the end of all my journeys it is 45 degrees and gray. I am sitting all alone at a red light on an empty stretch of Pacific Coast Highway. There is not a cop in sight so [...]
Continue reading...The Way The Case Ends
7. April 2010
The Mongols case was never much more than old clothes stuffed with straw. The illusion has been rotting for a year and a half and Good Friday morning the scarecrow finally fell apart. For all practical purposes what is left of the Mongols case is now stored for safekeeping in a locked barn. The case [...]
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3. September 2010
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