Random Politics & Religion #00

THIS ISNT EVEN MY FINAL TEXAN FORM.

I enjoy KN's personality, and we agree on almost no politics.

Don't encourage him.

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I WAS RAISED CATHOLIC.

NEGATIVE REINFORCEMENT IS ALL I KNOW.

I was not raised Catholic, so I didn't get the joys of being hit by a ruler by a nun.

Instead, I got whapped on the bum by a principal several times while I was in school....

You know about brown eyed Texans?

They are full of ****

You know about blue eyed Texans?

They are a quart low.

What do you call a Texan nun?

I had a nun that looked exactly like that.

The police charged about 170 people on Monday in the shootout among rival motorcycle gangs at a busy shopping plaza in this Central Texas city on Sunday that left at least nine bikers dead and 18 others wounded.

Law enforcement officials said the midday gun battle was primarily between the Bandidos and Cossacks gangs, a continuation of a long-running feud between the two groups, though members of the Scimitars — a gang affiliated with the Cossacks — and two other motorcycle clubs were also involved.

The people arrested after the shootout at the Twin Peaks Restaurant, in south Waco, were charged with engaging in organized crime linked to capital murder, said Sgt. Patrick Swanton, a Waco Police Department spokesman. It will be up to prosecutors and a grand jury to decide what charges they will ultimately face, but capital murder charges can carry the death penalty.

The episode, which left the restaurant and its parking lot littered with bullet shell casings and blood spatters, was so large and chaotic that for several hours the police were not sure how many people they had detained. Sergeant Swanton said Monday morning that the figure was 192, but he later revised it to 170, warning that it might change again, and said that rather than overwhelm the jail, the police used Waco’s Convention Center as a staging area overnight to hold those arrested.

Both the Bandidos and the Cossacks originated in Texas in the 1960s, according to law enforcement officials and gang historians. Last year, two members of the Bandidos, including the president of the Abilene chapter, were indicted on charges of stabbing two other men, in what the police said was a conflict with the Cossacks.

“The view of the Bandidos is that Texas is their state,” said Terry Katz, vice president of the International Association of Outlaw Motorcycle Gang Investigators, a group of about 600 analysts, investigators, police officers and prosecutors. The Bandidos “are the big dogs of Texas,” he said, but the smaller Cossacks gang was “not going to bow down,” and there has been a series of violent confrontations between them.

I wonder if Texas plans on doing anything to curb the power of these "motorcycle enthusiasts."

Well, they are all criminals, they all carry weapons, they wear cuts that identify them as members of a known criminal club, and they live out in the open. Whats up with that? Why are these guys allowed to ride around everyday and engage in criminal activity?
They don't even care that what they are doing is illegal. They just went to a restaurant, and shot a bunch of people, and the cops that were there, they shot at them, and more reinforcements were trying to get there to help. They have developed a culture where you get rewarded for fighting.
How about seizing the land they primarily operate on? How about freezing their assets? Stricter gun laws, no way thats happening in Texas, and the clubs know that, thus why they have so many charters there. I'm sure all that will happen is a special task force will be assigned and will accomplish nothing.

New law: All motorcycles must now be pink. You know, for visibility reasons. Self-consciousness is the ultimate weapon against biker gangs.

Unintended side effect: Motorcycle gangs now exclusively run out of San Francisco.

But they aren't all criminals, at least not provable, the ones that are are either blending with the crowd, or are arrested and tried.

What "gun law" would help here?

Businesses will cater to them as 1. they're customers 2. they don't want to tell them no.

Here's a good way to reduce their income though: end the silly "war on drugs" and you'll see their assets dry up.

religion stuffs..