Hey,
Another whacked out weekend. It’s interesting how time flies. I had a plan to start my charity bronze sculpture this weekend, but it’s gone, I mean the time. Ah, but all is not lost. Lots were accomplished this weekend and I’m rapidly catching up on writing assignments.
I roughed out Pat Patterson’s Led Sled article for the HORSE and Bikernet. Bruce Snyder turned in the last chapters of the second Chance book. I had a conference call with the 5-Ball team and Andrew is planning to hit the Chopperfest in Ventura. Later in the day I met and helped the Triking Viking install a sound system on a new H-D trike. It was a breeze. Cool trike.
But all the while I was thinking about my first effort at a bronze sculpture. George finished the sketches, and I started looking around the shop for scrap. I would love to hang with Jeff Decker for a week. I need to buy a bunch of plasticine clay, but I wanted to make a metal skeleton first, since I don’t have any problem with that.
So, while I was goofing with Jeremiah’s exhaust deflector on his 2009 Dyna Glide for his D&D exhaust I was thinking, pondering, researching and planning. You’ll see all the progress here, good and bad.
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BIKERNET BAD BLONDE JOKE LIBRARY HOLIDAY HOURS–A blonde driving a car became lost in a snowstorm. She didn’t panic however, because she remembered what her dad had once told her.
“If you ever get stuck in a snowstorm, just wait for a snow plow to come by and follow it.”
Sure enough, pretty soon a snow plow came by, and she started to follow it. She followed the plow for about forty-five minutes. Finally the driver of the truck got out and asked her what she was doing.
And she explained that her dad had told her if she ever got stuck in a snow storm, to follow a plow. The driver nodded and said, “Well, I’m done with the Wal-Mart parking lot, do you want to follow me over to Best Buy now?”
Some have asked what I’ve been doing in retirement. Well, I applied for a building permit for a new house.
It was going to be 100 ft tall and 400 ft wide, with 12 gun turrets at various heights, and windows all over the place and a loud outside entertainment sound system. It would have parking for 200 cars, and I was going to paint it snot green with pink trim.
The City Council told me:
“Forget it…AIN’T GONNA HAPPEN!”
So, I sent in the application again, but this time I called it a “Mosque.” Work starts on Monday. And here is the best part, it’s going to be tax exempt!
IT NEVER STOPS IN AUSTRALIA–Aussie bike club raids Thursday, 27 November 2014, 75 homes raided in the Australian state of Queensland targeting Rebels MC
Queensland police say they have conducted one of their biggest series of raids targeting motorcycle clubs in south-east Queensland.
In the past 24 hours, officers raided 75 homes and businesses around inner city Brisbane, the Gold Coast, Tweed Heads, Pine Rivers, Dalby, Gympie and Jimboomba.
The raids targeted a drug-trafficking network allegedly operating within the Rebels motorcycle club.
A dozen of the charges include offences under the Vicious Lawless Association Disestablishment Act.
Eight alleged patched members of the Rebels motorcycle club were arrested and charged under the state’s anti-biker laws and with major drug offences.
Those arrested are in custody to appear before the courts today and Friday morning, where it is expected police will oppose bail.
Police say the the raids followed a 14-month investigation, with more arrests expected.
“It again demonstrates the strong link between crime gangs and the methylamphetamine trade,” he said.
“Our efforts will continue to be directed at these crime gangs which are the most significant threat to our community.”
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An ominous step toward totalitarianism in Australia
Friday, 28 November 2014
If you or I had been in the same place at the same time as Stefan Kuczborski we would not be facing a minimum six-month jail sentence for just being there, writes Crispin Hull.
Unfortunately for Mr Kuczborski, he is a member of the Hells Angels motorcycle club. And he was in the company of two other members of the same club in public in Queensland. And that club is one of 26 “declared criminal organizations” by the Queensland Attorney-General under the Criminal Organisations Disruption Act.
Mr Kuczborski challenged that law and the risibly named Vicious Lawless Association Disestablishment Act 2013 and last week was unsuccessful in the High Court. The court in a 6-1 decision upheld the constitutionality of the law – decidedly holding its nose while doing so.
Only Justice Kenneth Hayne saw any constitutional difficulty.
All the judges stressed that it was not their job to decide on the politics of the law or its obvious severity, harshness or excessiveness.
But Australians more broadly should condemn these so-called anti-biker laws, which are becoming more and more repressive.
As any given state’s laws pass the very narrow grounds for constitutional objection, other states then follow suit in a race to be tougher on “crime” than anyone else – each Premier vying for victory in the battle against bikers.
Research by Rebecca Ananian-Welsh of the University of Queensland and George Williams of the University of NSW has shown how marked this trend has been and how it threatens basic legal rights and freedoms.
This is a very warped jurisprudence. It is in the mold of South Africa’s apartheid era and the early Nazi regime in Germany. The jurisprudential mold is as follows. The executive government isolates a class of people and then creates offences peculiar to that class of people or denies them rights, which everyone else in society has.
It is a dangerous path.
Mr Kuczborki’s lawyers argued that the law breached the independence and integrity of the Queensland judiciary because the executive government (the minister) determined whether an organization was “criminal” and the minimum sentence was mandatory.
The majority held that because the law provided a defense upon which a judge could decide, the independence and integrity of the Queensland judiciary was not breached by the law.
The defense, by the way, was for the biker to prove that the organization did not have a criminal purpose.
Again, this is offensive jurisprudence. Reverse onuses of proof in cases where the liberty of the citizen is at stake are abhorrent and belong more in totalitarian states. It is bad enough that we have to tolerate effective reverse onus in traffic cases in Australia, but where liberty is at stake it should not be tolerated.
At stake here is the doctrine of separation of powers. The legislature enacts laws for all. The executive gives practical application to those laws. The judiciary supervises that application and interprets the application of the law case by case.
None of the three branches should usurp the role of any of the other branches.
These are fundamental principles. Legislation should apply the law equally to all. Independent judges should determine whether executive action applying the law is done according to law. And independent judges should determine sentences in criminal cases.
Under Queensland law, it would be enough for Stefan Kuczborski to be having an ice cream with two of his Hells Angels mates for the three of them to be banged up for six months. Just wearing insignia of the group is proof of membership, by the way.
The answer to the problems with motorcycle clubs is not to deal with their members arbitrarily for just being associated with other members in public, but to do proper police work to get the evidence together to charge them with the serious charges that they are alleged to have committed: drug running, rape, assault, money laundering and the like.
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BIKERNET UNIVERSITY RELIGIOUS WORD OF THE DAY—Alphitomancy:
…for surely it is a glaring contradiction to admit that alphitomancy can really reveal futurity, and yet to call it a mere vain pretence.
— E. Johnson, Letter to the Editor, The Metropolitan Magazine: Volume XIV, September to December, 1835
Bandit recently attempted to use alphitomancy to save the Bikernet staff from eternal damnation. Hang on for the results.—Snake, Bikernet.com
Origin
Alphitomancy comes from the Greek word álphiton meaning “barley.” The suffix -mancy comes from the Greek term manteía meaning “divination.” Alphitomancy entered English in the mid-1600s.
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Kentucky Motorcycle Assocation / K.B.A. Newsletter–Some Actions Have Serious Consequences – Nov 11, 2014 – Florida –
By Outlaw RoadBlock; www.FreeRoadBlock.us
The recent tragic event in Jacksonville Florida proves one thing: The IO’s manifesto to create chaos and incite violence has no limit, even if their actions result in death.
What is the Iron Order? The Iron Order was founded in 2004 by a group of federal agents and an attorney. The founders and managers of the IO are made up, in part, of federal and state agents who have, over the years, made a career of prosecuting America’s motorcycle clubs.
By their own admission, they are determined to destroy all other clubs and associations, our biker lifestyle, and the freedoms guaranteed to Americans by the U.S. Constitution.
The Iron Order International Sergeant at Arms states: “I know our club has the advantage. One percenters won’t call the cops. So what the fuck, destroy any fucker that confronts you. It’s a free ticket….” That statement says it all.
The stated goals of the IO are that they will adhere to none of the rules, protocols or standards of the biker community. Moreover they will confront and prosecute anyone who objects to their aggressive actions. The IO members think they can commit illegal acts, then hide behind the law enforcement community and the blanket approval of the Justice Department. So far, they have done just that.
Over the past ten years IO members have routinely used their access to law enforcement data banks to get personal information about people they consider their enemies. The IO uses that information to harass, intimidate, threaten, and assault individuals and families.
They deliberately wear the colors and identifying patches of long established, old school clubs, including the one percenter diamond. They do this to incite violence over their blatant disrespect.
Based on the recent Jacksonville tragedy, I would guess that many of their younger members have no idea of the importance or consequences of dishonoring a long established club’s tradition, or the danger their leaders put them in. In the IO world, its own members are just as expendable as their targets.
Who is the Iron Order? Ironically, many of the IO members are active duty military, military veterans and L.E. As members of this “club,” these men violate the oath they swore to: to protect and defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic.
They blindly follow the jackbooted thugs running the IO, making these new members an accessory to the leaders’ illegal activity. (Sounds like a RICO indictment waiting to happen??) The IO members are doing the same thing Hitler’s SS troops did when he targeted the gypsies as undesirables in Nazi Germany.
Like Hitler, the IO has declared war on a specific group of citizens. Recently, (per usual at a biker event), one of these agents attempted to interrogate me. I asked why he did what he did if he knew it was wrong.
He said “I was following orders.” My response to him was: “That’s what the Nazis said at Nuremburg, Germany before they were hanged.”
Why do IO members follow their irresponsible leadership blindly? They have absolutely no excuse to do so. We do not live in Nazi Germany under a dictatorship. We live in the United States of America, and are guaranteed protection under the law.
The IO is not “the law.” By their own admission, they want to break the law and corrupt the legal system.
I would like to ask the IO members who pretend to be oblivious to their own organization’s illegal agenda: How many deaths are you willing to take personal responsibility for? How many families, and those of fellow veterans, military personnel and fellow LE members do you want to put in harm’s way because of your chicken-shit apathy? Where is your honor?
http://freeroadblock.us/opinions/some-actions-have-serious-consequences/
–Michael Hupy
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BIKERNET VERY BAD JOKE LIBRARY OPEN STILL– Late in the night he regained consciousness. Looking up at the ceiling from his gurney, he found himself in agonizing pain in the hospital’s ICU, tubes up his nose, wires coming from everywhere monitoring his every function and a gorgeous nurse hovering over him.
He realized he’d obviously been in a very serious accident.
As the nurse bent over him and looked deep into his eyes,
he heard her slowly say, “You may not feel anything from the waist down.”
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THERE YOU HAVE IT—And another week begins. We have several major goals for this week. I need to finish the Pat Patterson feature and submit it to the massive HORSE editorial board where it will be extensively critiqued and spit back in my face for a rewrite.
Next, I will continue to work with the team at Brass Balls Cycles on a massive piece about their kit bike program. It’s cool in lots of respects. Quality kit bikes faded after the economy crashed, and few have returned. Actually, a kit system allows a brother to build a bike on a budget, and Dar Holdsworth worked hard on a system a brother or sister can implement in financial stages.
That’s sorta like most of us do when we start to build a bike. We buy a frame and start tinkering until we can afford the next element.
I’m also going to figure out the size of my sculpture, start to work out the scale, and then tinker with the skeleton. Keep your fingers crossed. I might have a visual by Thursday in the news.
In the meantime have a blast. No, not that blast…
Ride free forever,
–Bandit
