In 1949 the gossip columnist Walter Winchell asked the sportswriter Red Smith if he found it hard to write a story every day. “Why no,” Smith replied, according to Winchell. “You simply sit down at the typewriter, open your veins, and bleed.” To the numerous readers who responded to the story “Reality Check” published last […]
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On Checking Reality
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Punishment By Revenge Porn
Since about a half century after the fall of Rome, since the year 529 when the Byzantine Emperor Justinian issued a series of decrees collectively known as Corpus Iuris Civilis (roughly translated as the Big Book of Civil Laws) human beings in the civilized world have been considered to be innocent until they are proven […]
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Turbans Replace Special Plastic Hats
Alberta has become the third Canadian province to allow adult motorcycle riders and passengers to wear turbans instead of helmets. The helmet law exemption is an accommodation to adherents of the Sikh religion. Male Sikhs are required to wear a kind of turban called a dastaar and carry a kind of dagger called a kirpan. […]
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The Iron Order Trial
The Iron Order Motorcycle Club’s days seem numbered. What will probably kill this strange, recent parody of motorcycle clubs will be a civil suit titled Brenda L. Bollinger, Administratrix of the Estate of Tonya M. Focht v. Iron Order Motorcycle Club a/k/a Iron Order Motorcycle Club, LLC, et al. The suit is scheduled to go […]
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Wait Until He Dies
Senior Federal District Judge Sam Sparks told the 136 plaintiffs who are suing various government defendants, and in four cases the Waco Twin Peaks restaurant, to patiently wait for justice while federal prosecutors in San Antonio try to stitch together a case against former Bandidos Motorcycle Club president Jeffrey Pike and former club vice-president John […]
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Iron Order Fixer Disqualified
This morning a Philadelphia judge named John Younge disqualified John C. “Shark” Whitfield (above) from representing the Iron Order Motorcycle Club in a legal dispute between the club and the estate of a woman killed by a club member in June 2015. The motion to disqualify Whitfield was entered by Slade McLaughlin, a founding partner […]
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Much Noise Little News
So far the murder case against seven people associated with the Cape May, New Jersey chapter of the Pagans Motorcycle Club has been mostly noise and not much news. It is beginning to look as if prosecutors think they can only win the case if they indoctrinate every potential juror in New Jersey first. In […]
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Bandidos Case Creeks Along
In case you are new, what you missed that you need to know here is that Abelino Reyna, the little, fat gangster who still serves as Waco District Attorney, and Thomas P. Brandt who is both Reyna’s personal lawyer and world famous for finding legal means to delay justice, and a Federal District Judge named […]
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Privacy Is Dead
A two judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit ruled against three members of the American Outlaws Association in Florida last week, in a three-year-old dispute over whether their driver’s license photos could be legally used as anti-biker propaganda by police. Charles R. Wilson and Susan H. Black agreed […]
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Manitoba Hells Angels Cyber Vandalism
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation ran a story this morning that said “Manitoba Hells Angels” are targeting “businesses by posting one-star reviews.” The news report accused Dale Kelland, “president of the Manitoba Nomads” charter “of the outlaw motorcycle gang the Hells Angels” of ordering his minions to boycott the Marion Hotel in Winnipeg because it had […]
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The Outlaw And The Barmaid
Since before Thanksgiving, the tragedy of a 24-year-old barmaid named Kaitlyn Kearns and a 32-year-old Outlaw named Jeremy Boshears has been presented in televised and print news accounts as a crime so simple it practically solves itself. America is a surveillance society. Everybody’s car is LoJacked. Kearns was serving drinks after hours at Woody’s Bar […]
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Iron Order S.O.S.
A lawsuit in Philadelphia titled Brenda L. Bollinger, Administratrix of the Estate of Tonya M. Focht v. Iron Order Motorcycle Club a/k/a Iron Order Motorcycle Club, LLC, et al. may kill the ersatz motorcycle club sooner than previously expected. The case is scheduled for trial June 25. In a memorandum distributed to all club members […]
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Schadenfreude
The Iron Order is sinking like a cinder block, Upon further examination, a day after club president Patrick “Brit” Ward told members that the Iron Order cannot pay its legal bills and is “almost out of funds” the club appears to have zero chance of surviving its current legal mess. From the outside the Iron […]
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Evolving Bandidos Case
Prosecutors in the virtually cloistered trial of Bandidos Jeffrey Pike and John Portillo continue to twist the Waco Twin Peaks Mass Murder as a malicious attack by eight blood thirsty Bandits on 70 gentle Cossacks. Simultaneously, Waco remains a hidden word at the trial. The original indictment that led to this trial, against Pike, Portillo […]
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Iron Order Hires New Lawyer
With all the prudence the President displays when he selects his whores, the Iron Order Motorcycle Club has found a new lawyer. According to an informed source, the Iron Order Motorcycle Club will be represented at a civil trial beginning this June by an attorney named Brian J, Grady. Grady graduated from LaSalle University in […]
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Michael P. “Grizz” Maguire
Michael P. “Grizz” Maguire, a founding member, chaplain and former president of the Semper Fi Chapter of the Leathernecks Nation Motorcycle Club, died February 9, 2018 in Deptford, New Jersey, near Philadelphia. He was also a former commandant of the Marine Corps League in Deptford Township. He was an enthusiastic supporter of Toys For Tots […]
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Rats Flee Sinking Ship
Michael Jarrett, McLennan County’s $121,000 per year First Assistant District Attorney is apparently abandoning criminal law after trying for more than two years and failing to secure a criminal conviction against Dallas Bandido Christopher Jacob Carrizal. Waco Tribune-Herald courthouse reporter Tommy Witherspoon reported yesterday that Jarrett’s next job will be with the Texas Farm Bureau […]
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Jason Randall “Agro” Cliff
Jason Randall “Agro” Cliff, a member of the Sonoma County charter of the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club died April 8 of injuries sustained in a head-on crash with a pickup truck near the intersection of California State Roads 175 and 29 in Lake County, California. He was the owner of Holeshot Choppers & Performance in […]
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Mongols Nation Case Dances On Pin
The Mongols Nation case, United States versus Mongol Nation: An Unincorporated Association, is scheduled for trial June 26 before District Judge David O. Carter in the Ronald Reagan Federal Courthouse in Santa Ana, California June 26. This case is about authorizing police to rip the patches off motorcycle club members’ backs and it began, in […]
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Dear Igo
On April 26, 2018 Igo wrote: Let me see if I’m getting this. SO, IF we use the example of “Red Sox Nation” in place of “Mongol Nation”, then that would include (by the courts finding of one in the same) ANY PERSON that had the least hint of ANY trace to the name (a […]
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