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From Brando to Waco, bikers are part of Americana

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One of the most interesting groups of thousands of Bikers occurs at Myrtle Beach every year, and coming up soon. It is called Black Bike Week. You should read the papers during that week. Shootings, muggings, chains and guns and knives. Really make a mess of that beautiful beach resort.

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Q: What's the difference between a Hell's Angel and a vacuum cleaner?

A: The position of the dirt bag.

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Not all bikers are drug and arms traffickers.

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@Yelnats

One of the most interesting groups of thousands of Bikers occurs at Myrtle Beach every year, and coming up soon. It is called Black Bike Week.

Or you can mention the more dangerous "Sturgis Motorcycle Rally" in North Dakota. What I find interesting is there was no calling them "Thugs" (200 members fighting), no one complaining of "White on White crime" (which is about 87%), and no one blaming there family upbringing.

Here some more questions that make you say hmmmmmmm:

Why are police and media calling this a "meeting" rather than, say, "a partnership to 'take out' police officers"? If police didn't project a hologram of James Dean on the mall wall; didn't find any Sharks, Jets or Outsiders on the scene and didn't apprehend Danny from "Grease," why are they calling this murderous scene "a rumble"? Why has major media failed to mention the socioeconomic level or race of the bikers? Did any of the alleged gangsters make eye contact with police? Police were already on the scene because they suspected there would be trouble. Why weren't any unarmed civilians shot to death? Police were prepared for five gangs worth of violence. Why weren't they all wearing riot gear? Do the bikers' poor education, lack of employment and lack of rec center membership heighten their tendency toward violence? Do the bikers lack education, jobs or rec center membership? Were Ace Hood, Bobby Smurda, Y.G., Chief Keef, T.I. or 1992-era Snoop Dogg at the shootout in Waco? Were the bikers playing the music of Ace Hood, Bobby Smurda, Y.G., Chief Keef, T.I. or 1992-era Snoop Dogg during the deadly fight? Was the violence "senseless"? Was the violence the result of generations of criminality glorified in bikers' culture? Did the bikers grow up with fathers in their homes? Are the bikers married to women and leading households? Was anybody "unauthorized" or "illegal"? Was anyone a terrorist? Was anyone a thug? Was anyone not white?

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Or you can mention the more dangerous "Sturgis Motorcycle Rally" in North Dakota

Sturgis, South Dakota

Many of these bike gangs have police chaperones it seems. I have seen a few on California highways with police escorts.

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The police should have engaged fully in the Waco biker shootout with machine guns, eradicating all of the filthy, criminal vermin!

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