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Posted: 1/11/2006 9:46:40 PM EDT
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From the sound of it, they may have been a gang, but they sure as hell weren't much on actual motorcycles.
Most of them couldn't make a ride because their bikes wouldn't run for more than a few miles. Apparently they were more just a scummy gang of thieves and drug dealers/users that happened to like bikes. |
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Posted: 1/11/2006 9:59:37 PM EDT
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There has always been a degree of attraction to motorcycles by military members. In fact, the Hell's Angels were founded by vets returning from WW2
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Posted: 1/12/2006 4:22:36 AM EDT
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Under and Alone by William Queen.
Sounds like a good read. I heard this guy on G. Gordon Liddy's show one day last week. Mr Queen must have a set of big brass ones to have pulled off what he did. Really need to pick up a copy of the book. |
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Posted: 1/12/2006 4:32:16 AM EDT
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Excellent read. This guy had a huge pair made of solid brass. His book convinced me that I'm not cut out for undercover work. Most of the stuff he went through would have made me pee my pants on the spot. |
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Posted: 1/12/2006 4:37:05 AM EDT
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Great read, I couldn't put it down either.
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Posted: 1/12/2006 5:29:26 AM EDT
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It must have been the Mongol vote that put him over the top in the MN governor’s election. He was a thinly disguised Dem who only was looking out for himself. He promised CCW and then, when he got his finally from a local police chief, he dropped the whole idea. When he was mayor of a Minneapolis suburb the police chief of his own town wouldn't even give him his CCW. (Our current Republican governor got CCW passed TWICE in about 4 years after the first bill was challenged in court.) Before he ran for governor he moved to another suburb. Jesse Ventura, born James Janos, was the best argument for PROFESSIONAL politicians that you could ever have. His former campaign manager is now running the governors campaign for Kinky Friedman in Texas. |
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Posted: 1/12/2006 5:31:26 AM EDT
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don't know much about them but from what I hear the Mongols are pretty hardcore and are more feared than the Hells Angels.
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Posted: 1/12/2006 5:36:02 AM EDT
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I know that motorcycling took off with WWII vets, but I don't know specifically about "Hell's Angels". Are you sure about that? |
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Posted: 1/12/2006 5:39:06 AM EDT
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Yep. That was the nickname of their squadron in the war. |
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Posted: 1/12/2006 6:16:28 AM EDT
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Posted: 1/12/2006 6:22:19 AM EDT
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The movie "The Best years of their Lives" paints the scene for returning GIs.
It's easy to see why some would have been frustrated and hit the road on a bike to make their own way. |
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Posted: 1/12/2006 6:22:50 AM EDT
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I thought The Mongols was the name of the biker gang that hated Filo Betto in "Any Which Way But Loose."
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Posted: 1/12/2006 6:26:12 AM EDT
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Courses? How about that. What did you learn? When I lived in California, I was around the red and white quite a bit. Some of 'em are fun guys to have a beer with. 
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Posted: 1/12/2006 6:31:35 AM EDT
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They were the Black Widows. |
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Posted: 1/12/2006 6:33:15 AM EDT
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That's right. It has been too long since I have seen that movie. I laugh my ass off every time I see it. "Right turn Clyde." |
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Posted: 1/12/2006 6:35:25 AM EDT
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Hells Angels and the Outlaws used to be the two big groups around here, especially during the 70s. Quite a bit of gun battles between the two and even the occasional bombing. |
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Posted: 1/12/2006 6:38:14 AM EDT
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Neat-o.  I was just curious.
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Posted: 1/12/2006 6:44:54 AM EDT
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So what did they make Billy St. John do in order to join?
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Posted: 1/12/2006 9:04:06 AM EDT
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Well, you first start out as a "hang-around" after you get introduced and have to endure lots of suspicion and antagonism. Than you become a "Prospect". this is when you really get treated like a bitch, you are a slave, you've got to get beers, light smokes, wipe their asses if they tell you to...etc. This is also the stage where they insist that you do drugs, commit crimes etc. After a serious....and I mean SERIOUS background check, they have P.I.'s and attorneys working for them, they "Patch" you in. Meaning that you can wear the lower club patch on your jacket and thus you don't have to be a bitch anymore, Queen was undercover for more than two years. |
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