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ANGST BUILDS OVER AUSSIE CLUB CRACKDOWN–Anger is growing among bikers who say Queensland’s proposed new anti-biker laws could force them into crime.
The State Government is drawing up legislation banning members from meeting, wearing club colors in licensed venues and owning or working at tattoo parlors.
United Motorcycle Council member Russell Wattie says law-abiding bikers have been unfairly targeted.
“If you were told tomorrow that you couldn’t practice your craft, would you be angry?” Mr Wattie said.
“If you had no way of providing an income for your family, paying your mortgage, would you be angry?
“The biker is out there on his bike showing who he is – he’s not sneaking around in the dark like a bloody worm like these businessman up the top end of town.”
The Bill to be introduced to Parliament in a fortnight will also target the recruitment of club members, but Mr Wattie says the new laws could turn some members to crime.
“People will be upset if their legal right to make a living is taken away from them,” Mr Wattie said.
“You have to put food on the table, a roof over the head and feed your family – what are you going to do?
“You can’t survive on the dole – do they want us to only have crime?
“Is that the position that they see for us so then they can say ‘look we were right, we were justified in doing that because now they’re criminals all the time’?”
Deputy Opposition Leader Tim Mulherin says Labor supports tougher anti-biker laws but believes the LNP’s crackdown is hypocritical.
“Attorney-General [Jarrod] Bleijie broadcast to the world and to bikie gangs before the last election that he wanted to scrap the former government’s former Criminal Organization Act 2009,” Mr Mulherin said.
“He said he was concerned they affected the civil liberties of the bikies.”
“What we’ll need to do is look at any proposed amendments, any new laws and we’ll need to look at it very carefully to ensure that the bungling Attorney-General Bleijie gets it right.”
Assistant Commissioner Mike Condon says police are closely monitoring motorcycle club activity across the state.
“We’re fully aware across the districts what motorcycle clubs we have in the area,” he said.
“In my view they need to be constantly monitored and where possible action taken to ensure that they are behaving themselves.””
QUICK Thought for the day…
We are always hearing about how Social Security is going to run out of money.
How come we never hear about Welfare running out of money?
Life is a gift, Freedom is a responsibility. – unknown
–from Rogue
WHITE VAGINAS banned for Ivy League production of Vagina Monologues–At this year’s edition of “The Vagina Monologues” jointly staged by Columbia University and Barnard College, the producers have outlawed the vaginas of white students.
The producers unanimously chose to ban white people and their vaginas from participating in the episodic play because they believe white women have been over-represented in past performances, reports The College Fix. They say white women are over-represented in mainstream feminist discourse as well.
Auditions are Wednesday, Oct. 9th for the segregated, separate-but-equal production of “The Vagina Monologues” to be staged by the two prestigious Manhattan schools.
“Barnard-Columbia V-Day is excited to announce that our annual production of The Vagina Monologues will feature an all self-identified women of color cast this year,” trumpets a Facebook page entitled Barnard/Columbia Vagina Monologues ’14 Auditions.
“The Vagina Monologues has historically overlooked the empowerment of women of color, queer women, and trans* folk, among others—often replicating and perpetuating the same systems of power and privilege that prompted the playwright, Eve Ensler, to write The Vagina Monologues in the first place,” the Facebook page explains.
The page goes on to excoriate “mainstream Western feminism” for “the marginalization and erasure of these groups” and the “failure to consider the effects of power structures outside gender within the feminist community.”
Full-time tuition at Columbia is about $49,000 per year. Just across the street at Barnard, full-time tuition is about $42,000 per year. These figures don’t include room and board.
“The Vagina Monologues” is a series of soliloquies designed to be read by women. Initially, back in 1996, Ensler, the pasty-white playwright, performed the entire show herself. It is now common to have a number of women perform the monologues. Also, actors choose their monologues, so each piece isn’t necessarily used in a given production.
A sampling of the monologues on offer includes “My Angry Vagina,” “The Woman Who Loved to Make Vaginas Happy” and “The Little Coochie Snorcher That Could.”
–By Eric of the Daily Caller
–Rogue
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AH, PAUSE FOR A RELIGIOUS MOMENT AND OPEN THE BAD JOKE LIBRARY–A preacher wanted to raise money for his church and on being told that there was a fortune in horse racing, decided to purchase a horse and enter it in the races. However, at the local auction, the going price for horses was so high that he ended up buying a donkey instead. He figured that since he had it, he might as well go ahead and enter it in the races. To his surprise, the donkey came in third!
The next day the local paper carried this headline: PREACHER’S ASS SHOWS. The preacher was so pleased with the donkey that he entered it in the race again, and this time it won. The paper read: PREACHER’S ASS OUT IN FRONT. The Bishop was so upset with this kind of publicity that he ordered the preacher not to enter the donkey in another race.
The paper headline read: BISHOP SCRATCHES PREACHER’S ASS. This was too much for the Bishop, so he ordered the preacher to get rid of the donkey. The preacher decided to give it to a nun in a nearby convent. The paper headline the next day read: NUN HAS BEST ASS IN TOWN. The Bishop fainted. He informed the nun that she would have to get rid of the donkey, so she sold it to a farmer for $10.00.
The next day the headline read: NUN SELLS ASS FOR $10.00. This was too much for the Bishop, so he ordered the nun to buy back the donkey, lead it to the plains, and let it go. Next day, the headline in the paper read: NUN ANNOUNCES HER ASS IS WILD AND FREE. The Bishop was buried the next day.
–Mistress Chris
FIRST MOTORCYCLE FILM FESTIVAL TOOK PLACE IN SEPTEMBER–The Motorcycle Film Festival is an idea whose time has come: we are in the midst of the biggest creative boom centered on motorcycles since the 1970s. Every motorcycle customizer has an in-house filmmaker, and every hip moto-event from Biarritz to Melbourne has built-in paparazzi; we can re-live the antics of fellow bikers on Youtube, or gasp at masterworks from talented videographers, who often unwittingly work side by side.
The massive, youthful rise of moto-mania has excited big motorcycle factories to collaborate with rising garage artists, and has inspired professional filmmakers that now is the time to produce that long-dreamt two-wheel feature film.
The Motorcycle Film Festival was founded in 2013 by a group of NYC motorcyclists and independent filmmakers, to provide a home for motorcycle films from around the world, and give moto/film enthusiasts an event to gather, discuss, and celebrate our favorite subject. For further information, contact motorcyclefilmfestival@gmail.com
Mistress Chris is working on a full-on story about Corrinna and the MFF for Bikernet.–Bandit
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BIKERNET UNIVERSITY ENGLISH DEPARTMENT WEEKEND TARDY STUDENT VOCABULARY LESSON–whirligig HWUR-li-gig, WUR-, noun:
It comes back to me that I was at a certain hour long afterwards to have reflected, in this connection, on the characteristic free play of the whirligig of time.
…would the whole desperate whirligig slow down, and the exhausted public relapse upon plain grub and elbow-grease?
Whirligig combines the words whirl with gig. Gig comes from the Middle English ghyg meaning “spinning top.”
The great Aussie biker beat-up–Australia has two types of bikers: Conservatives and Radicals…so writes Mark Lauchs from the Conversation
The Conservative lifestyle involves riding big bikes, drinking a lot, punching your mates and enemies, then falling over and sleeping it off.
To a select group of guys, this is tremendous fun. They join outlaw motorcycle gangs because they love this lifestyle and also enjoy the “outlaw” image of being unacceptable to society.
There is also a Radical lifestyle. This is where some people harness the violent skills of club members and apply it to making money. Bikers are intimidating and willing to use violence on property and people. This makes them extremely useful for extortion and, once they establish their bone fides at extortion, it makes it possible for them to take over organised crime activities.
Money is a fantastic incentive and lots of money is an even better one. So it is not surprising that some Conservative bikers do become radicalised and move into more serious crime.
There are also fake bikers – known as Nike Bikies – who are organized criminals simply pretending to be bikers in order to piggy back on the brand: the Power of the Patch.
Cracking down – but on which criminals?
Since a violent biker brawl erupted at a Gold Coast restaurant on Friday night last week, the federal and Queensland governments have declared war on bikers. As Queensland premier Campbell Newman said on Sunday:
“I’ve had enough and Queenslanders have had enough — these criminals seem to have lost touch with reality and we are going to reclaim the streets…We’re going to meet the bikies with an equal response in terms of force. Life is about to get very difficult for them. Every gang member will be assumed to be a criminal and treated as such until this is over.”
But if we want to reduce outlaw motorcycle club crime, it’s important to start by seeing that not all bikers are the same.
Instead, our federal and state governments need to decide whether they are primarily trying to address anti-social violence (the Conservatives), like last week’s Broadbeach brawl, or organised crime, involving the Radicals.
Both are genuine problems – but the Radicals’ impact on our community far outweighs that of the Conservatives.
Organized crime undermines society and causes harm throughout the community by supporting illicit activity and extorting money from legitimate business. On the other hand, Conservative biker turf wars can cause collateral damage through physical harm to innocent bystanders, but these incidents are extremely rare in comparison.
We do need to tackle both types of criminal activity – but that requires very different approaches.
Street thugs vs organized crime
Organized crime is a problem for Australia, as it is in every nation. Outlaw motorcycle club members are involved in organized crime and this needs to be addressed.
However, the events that led up to the Newman’s statement that “every gang member will be assumed to be a criminal” involved street fighting.
It may turn out that the brawl was related to organized crime – but it is more likely to have been a result of the normal machismo-based territoriality and vendetta that bike clubss have been involved in long before any of them delved into drugs production and extortion.
Organized crime must be addressed through good police work, using good quality intelligence and backed up by sufficient resources.
And on that score, there is good news from this week’s state and federal crackdown on bikers. The extension of federal resources and powers to the Queensland police will greatly improve the ability to address the organized crime activities of outlaw motorcycle clubs.
Beating up the risk of biker beat-ups
Street violence is part of the biker lifestyle. This barbarian behaviour is attractive to its members and very difficult to stop simply through a legal response.
The issue is to move the violence off the streets and allow consenting adults to indulge their lifestyle choice in private. In this case, the increased police presence, even though it is likely to be temporary, should have some effect at displacing the violence away from the tourist strips.
However, the sudden, huge focus on outlaw motorcycle clubs is a beat-up, made easier by how recognizable bikers and the disproportionate fear they engender in many people.
Let’s be clear – outlaw motorcycle club members are not the only people involved in the drug trade or extortion on the Gold Coast. It is not even clear that they are the primary players in either form of crime.
So it would be folly to focus exclusively on outlaw motorcycle clubs in an attempt to stop organized criminal activity. It may not be the intention of the Queensland government to do this, but what has been said publicly about bikers certainly makes it sound that way.
It should also be remembered that no government in the world has eradicated or even significantly reduced organised crime in any jurisdiction. So it is unlikely to happen in Queensland, no matter how effective the new Queensland Strike Team proves to be.
Similarly, bikers do not have a monopoly of getting drunk and brawling in public. Anyone who has been to a pub in any tourist strip on an average Friday or Saturday night will be able to judge that for themselves. Thus focusing on outlaw motorcycle clubs alone in an attempt to protect the public from street violence would also be folly.
The new laws that have been announced in Queensland and the stronger police response will hopefully do some public good in addressing organized crime, and at least relocate street violence away from the family-friendly areas of the Gold Coast.
But if we want this new crackdown to have more than a passing impact on crime, then we should remember one thing. When it comes to organized crime or violence in our streets, both are far bigger than being just “a biker problem”.
–Mark Lauchs
Senior Lecturer Faculty of Law, School of Justice & Transformational Learning and Teaching Fellow/Senior Lecturer Chancellery, Learning and Teaching Unit at Queensland University of Technology
THE SEARCH FOR THE NEW REDHEAD–
Hey found you a redhead…. Kinda of young but pretty sure She is trainable, plus I am betting she would be loyal.
–Richard P. Kranzler
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ROGUE’S BAD COP FILE—World needs to be aware of this motorcycle traffic cop.
“This is LA Sherrif’s Deputy, Elton Simmons and I bet you don’t like him already.” In a career spanning over 20 years and 25,000 traffic stops, this motorcycle traffic cop has racked up an incredible number of complaints:
–from Rogue
LET’S HIT IT—It’s going to be hot in the southland today. We are working on a photo shoot for Bikernet Apparel on the Chowderbarge in the very near future, handled with the Tattoo Magazine photo talents of Markus Cuff, if I can get any info from him about how much the models costs.
We are going to sail to Catalina on the Love Ride Weekend. I feel like that’s against the code of the west, but what the hell. I have consistently supported the Love Ride since the beginning. And it’s not everyday I get to sail on an historic tall ship. I did have this opportunity about 20 years ago and had to pass, not this time.
I will work with the staff to feature Asian Dan’s bike tomorrow from Rogue. It won the Bikernet Editor’s Choice award from the Broken Spoke in Sturgis. And this is the bike Marilyn Stemp, the editor of IronWorks, selected as the Vegas Bike Fest Bikernet Editor’s Choice recipient.
It’s going to be a happening week around the headquarters. We are hoping for final trim paint on the front of the weekend, then we need to think about hanging the 5-Ball Neon sign by James Bondo. Hold on!
Ride Forever,
–Bandit
