And, we’re ba-ack! The Aging Rebel was hacked seven times on Friday March 27 and has been down for 19 days. The hacks appear to have occurred at 1:43 p.m. Pacific Time, 2:07 p.m., 2:28 p.m., 7:41 p.m., 8:30 p.m., 9 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. The hacks followed about a month of what either were […]
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We’re Ba-ack
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Site Will Be Down Once More!
A brief housekeeping note. The damage done to this site during the March 27 hack was fairly extensive and a large number of security enhancements are being installed. The site will be down on Thursday night and will be back up by Friday morning. Things should be close to normal after that. Thank you very […]
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Rockstar Sawdust Changes Course
Rebels Motorcycle Club United States Prime Minister Mike “Sawdust” Cunningham is taking his career in a new direction. Cunningham has been one of America’s most high profile club leaders for more than a year since he succeeded former Vago and Rebel Matt Monk as his club’s maximum leader. Under Cunningham’s leadership the Rebels have patched […]
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More Iron Order Related Arrests
There have been two more Iron Order related arrests in Baltimore. They stem from a fight between members the Iron Order and the Chosen Sons Motorcycle Clubs last June 7 in Essex, Maryland. Both of the accused are Chosen Sons. Their names are David Criles and Keith Romans. Criles is a detective with the Baltimore […]
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Judge Voids First Amendment
A circuit court judge in Illinois named Sharon L. Prather voided the First Amendment last week. Prather ruled that three cutoff vests owned by the American Outlaws Association can be seized because some policemen say the motorcycle club is a “street gang” and the vests are “contraband” used “to facilitate street gang activity.” There is […]
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U.S. Versus Mongols This Weekend
A brief moment in the vicious war the Department of Justice is waging against the Mongols Motorcycle Club in Los Angeles emerged uncensored over the weekend. A “multi-agency taskforce” including federal and local police raided what is being described as a Mongols “meeting” Saturday afternoon in Southgate, a mostly Hispanic city of about 100,000 people […]
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Twilight of the Outlaws
There are a couple of things that are immediately obvious about this book. The first is that the subtitle does not include the usually obligatory words “undercover,” “harrowing,” “journey,” “vendetta,” “gang,” “violent,” “true,” or “hero.” In fact, the book has no subtitle at all. So how good can it be? Maybe if we cheese up […]
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Burning The Bill of Rights
The context of what happened last Saturday afternoon in Southgate, California when a heavily armed Deputy U.S. Marshall attacked a woman without provocation and destroyed her cell phone is clearer now than it was yesterday when The Aging Rebel first reported the story. The Mongols and other motorcycle clubs held a fundraiser to help pay […]
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Mongols Harassment Fallout
Beatriz Paez, the school teacher who was attacked by a still unnamed United States Deputy Marshal last Saturday in South Gate, California for recording a punitive raid on a legal defense fundraiser for a Mongols Motorcycle Club member intends to file a federal civil rights lawsuit according to her attorney Colleen Marie Flynn. “There was […]
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Armed Bikers From Hell
Three members of the American Outlaws Association in Florida are suing current and former Orange County Sheriff’s Deputies for using their driver’s license photos to scare state legislators into rejecting a law four years ago that would have allowed residents to openly carry firearms. The plaintiffs in the suit are Tracy Gil Osteen, Leslie Baas […]
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The News Cycle
The Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, which made headlines earlier this month for criticizing a story Rolling Stone ran last December, ought to take another minute to look at how the national and Los Angeles press has handled the Beatriz Paez story. Paez is the school teacher who was attacked last week by a […]
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Installing Claymore Mines
Do to ongoing security and performance improvements to the site, The Aging Rebel will be down for up to four hours tonight starting at about 4 p.m. Pacific Time. I apologize for the inconvenience. As soon as the crocodile-filled moat and the anti-missile lasers are installed, things should get back to normal. Rebel
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Fishing For RICO In Yakima
The criminalization of just about everything and the federalization of just about all law enforcement took another big stride in Yakima, Washington this week. Police Chief Dominic Rizzi Jr., a former Chicago Police Department watch commander who has had the Yakima job for three years, announced that his department’s ten-man “gang unit” will be merged […]
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Laughlin Yet Lives
The annual Laughlin, Nevada biker lifestyle and police overtime festival was last weekend. Officially, the event is called River Run. Greed has been killing the golden goose that literally built this Colorado River gambling town for years. Yet somehow, it lives. It is now an over-policed, third rate swap meet – which is probably unfair […]
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Mongols Nation Trial Looms
There was a hearing this morning in the looming Mongols Nation case to approximately determine how extensively the jury pool has been contaminated by government sponsored, anti-biker and anti-Mongol propaganda in the last seven years. That’s how long the federal government has been trying to seize the Mongols patch. On October 21, 2008, when announcing […]
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New Charge In Iron Coffins Homicide
A third member of the Battle Creek, Michigan chapter of the Iron Coffins Motorcycle Club was charged yesterday in the death of former club president Lee J. “Leeroy” Taylor (above) on New Year’s 2012. There were four men in the Iron Coffins clubhouse at the fatal moment. Taylor wound up in a pool of blood […]
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Warlock Probate’s Innocence
The Innocence Clinic, a project of the University of Miami School of Law “dedicated to identifying and correcting wrongful convictions,” has taken up the case of former Warlocks Motorcycle Club probate named James Madison Bedsole. Bedsole was charged with murdering a man named Chad Brickey in September 2009 and was convicted in February 2011. Bedsole […]
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VE Day And The Night Wolves
Today is the seventieth anniversary of Victory in Europe Day or VE Day. And thereon hangs a couple of seventy year long tales. It was clear by the beginning of 1945 that the Nazis were finished and at the beginning of February Hitler’s three major adversaries, Winston Churchill of Great Britain, Joseph Stalin of the […]
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Oops He Did It Again
Christopher Andrew Cervantes, a Montebello (California) Police Department “gang expert” and frequent ATF Task Force Officer in cases related to the Mongols and other motorcycle clubs, has been arrested again. Cervantes was booked on a charge of driving under the influence Thursday morning and released on $5,000 bail. Montebello police lieutenant Kelly Gordon knew that […]
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Nicholas K. “Re-Re” Norris
Nicholas K. “Re-Re” Norris, a member of the Black Pistons motorcycle Club, was shot in the head and killed by a man named Ron Stewart about 6:30 p.m. in Indianapolis on May 3. Stewart began following Norris and another biker named Ryan Harrison, who were both carrying women on the backs of their bikes, near […]
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