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In before the Mongols adopt the Gadsden Flag to be their replacement patch.
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Have a buddy associated with another well known club who said they were talking about this. Their plan was "fuck it, well merchandise the fuck outta fully patched cuts and sell them to EVERYONE cheap at every rally we can get to, and make it a 1A issue. Then design a new cut for members down the line."
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I think you'd have to be kind of a puss gang member if you give up wearing your patches because a federal judge says so View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
Quoted: A couple of years. I think a judge ruled against the feds seizure of their colors a few years ago so they could continue wearing them. Saw a half dozen at a bar wearing them a few weeks ago so I assume they won that case. Of course outlaws will outlaw so perhaps not. |
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I won’t white knight for trailer trash gangs on bikes but this sets a dangerous precedent. Imagine all the other ways broad RICO cases could be abused and think about who makes those decisions. Guilt by association has no place in a free country. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes |
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Have a buddy associated with another well known club who said they were talking about this. Their plan was "fuck it, well merchandise the fuck outta fully patched cuts and sell them to EVERYONE cheap at every rally we can get to, and make it a 1A issue. Then design a new cut for members down the line." Pretty smart solution imo. View Quote |
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Quoted: I won’t white knight for trailer trash gangs on bikes but this sets a dangerous precedent. Imagine all the other ways broad RICO cases could be abused and think about who makes those decisions. Guilt by association has no place in a free country. View Quote |
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why won't they go after Antifa, or Soros, or others on the Left that openly work to subvert the rule of law in this country?
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When you join a gang, whose entire purpose is to make money doing crime, it’s not guilt by association. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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Ha ha! Guilt by association has no place in a free country. |
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Not really.the forum doesn’t exist for the purposes of criminal activity like a gang does. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes |
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Have a buddy associated with another well known club who said they were talking about this. Their plan was "fuck it, well merchandise the fuck outta fully patched cuts and sell them to EVERYONE cheap at every rally we can get to, and make it a 1A issue. Then design a new cut for members down the line." Pretty smart solution imo. View Quote |
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An Orange County jury decided Friday that the Mongols motorcycle gang should be stripped of its trademarked logo in a first-of-its-kind verdict, federal prosecutors said.
The jury in U.S. District Court in Santa Ana previously found Mongol Nation, the entity that owns the image of a Mongol warrior on a chopper, guilty of racketeering and conspiracy. The verdict caps an unusual decade-long quest by prosecutors to dismantle the gang responsible for drug dealing and murder by seizing control of the trademark they said was core to the gang’s identity. Gang members were “empowered by these symbols that they wear like armor,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Steve Welk said. The effort to take the logo followed the racketeering convictions of 77 gang members in 2008 after U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives agents infiltrated the gang. Four male ATF agents became “full-patch” members and four female agents posed as their girlfriends during the lengthy investigation. “Being a Mongol promises you one of two things – death or prison,” a member told one of the agents who received a coveted patch, prosecutors said. More |
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I think you'd have to be kind of a puss gang member if you give up wearing your patches because a federal judge says so View Quote Today Mongols patches. Tomorrow? Gadsden flags. The week after? Anyone driving a pickup truck. See... here's how it works. Rico case based on colors/patches/rockers only. Not by legitimate evidence. Want a Rico case? Catch and prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that members are guilty of a crime, and have committed a crime. Conspiracy charges applied merely by what some beer bellied hog rider wears? Wait til the thought police find GD.... Just sayin... |
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An Orange County jury decided Friday that the Mongols motorcycle gang should be stripped of its trademarked logo in a first-of-its-kind verdict, federal prosecutors said. The jury in U.S. District Court in Santa Ana previously found Mongol Nation, the entity that owns the image of a Mongol warrior on a chopper, guilty of racketeering and conspiracy. The verdict caps an unusual decade-long quest by prosecutors to dismantle the gang responsible for drug dealing and murder by seizing control of the trademark they said was core to the gang’s identity. Gang members were “empowered by these symbols that they wear like armor,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Steve Welk said. The effort to take the logo followed the racketeering convictions of 77 gang members in 2008 after U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives agents infiltrated the gang. Four male ATF agents became “full-patch” members and four female agents posed as their girlfriends during the lengthy investigation. “Being a Mongol promises you one of two things – death or prison,” a member told one of the agents who received a coveted patch, prosecutors said. More View Quote |
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Don't think all the Mongols got the message.
There was 4-5 of them in Ybor tonight wearing their cuts. |
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Quoted: It would be interesting to hear more about the female agents experience. "Girlfriend" is a pretty loose term in that world. View Quote |
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This right here. It's really sad what's happening. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
Quoted: I won't white knight for trailer trash gangs on bikes but this sets a dangerous precedent. Imagine all the other ways broad RICO cases could be abused and think about who makes those decisions. Guilt by association has no place in a free country. |
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This, do you think the next liberal administration is going to go easy on us........ View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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Applying that to forum membership is a sobering thought. ....oh shit..... |
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Not really.the forum doesn't exist for the purposes of criminal activity like a gang does. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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Applying that to forum membership is a sobering thought. when our guns are illegal or they start labeling us as a 'hate speech" site you can bet they will try to shut it down |
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What’s worse is they were wearing them at a bar in a town known to be Outlaws territory. I couldn’t recall if those two groups were feuding or not but since the latter frequents that establishment I figured they were ballsy enough. Unfortunately no Outlaws came in to provide the evenings entertainment. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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Quoted: A couple of years. I think a judge ruled against the feds seizure of their colors a few years ago so they could continue wearing them. Saw a half dozen at a bar wearing them a few weeks ago so I assume they won that case. Of course outlaws will outlaw so perhaps not. |
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Quoted: Pretty sure until internet forums and other clubs start requiring you to commit a violent felony witnessed by a full patch member to gain entry they are safe from being designated as an ongoing criminal enterprise. View Quote |
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Yeah, if the Mongols was an open membership motorcycle club you would have a point. You can't become a Mongols member without a current member witnessing you commit a violent felony to gain your membership. They instituted this rule after the ATF infiltrated them because they know that undercover law enforcement, who can otherwise do certain things like sell/use drugs and commit other crimes for the furtherance of their role, draws a hard line at committing felony assaults in furtherance of their investigation. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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Of course the argument can also be made that not everyone is there for the same reason. I'm sure there are some who just like dressing up like a pirate on the weekends and hugging other men while calling each other bro. You can't become a Mongols member without a current member witnessing you commit a violent felony to gain your membership. They instituted this rule after the ATF infiltrated them because they know that undercover law enforcement, who can otherwise do certain things like sell/use drugs and commit other crimes for the furtherance of their role, draws a hard line at committing felony assaults in furtherance of their investigation. And fuck the Mongols. |
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It used to be a lot looser and they would accept guys who snorted(or appeared to snort) meth with them and got in bar fights and was an all around good biker bro, when that policy lead to many of their members going to prison after a couple federal undercovers infiltrated them they reacted and changed. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
Quoted: I always figured the felony in thing was a myth since LE still manages to infiltrate them. And fuck the Mongols. |
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Non US Citizen Hell's Angels are barred from entering the US. But the NRA ect aren't criminal organizations..... View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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Mongols may be bad guys, but this is damn scary, slippery slope shit. The D's get in full power, NRA members, ARFcom members, etc. Could easily have the same ruling screw us. But the NRA ect aren't criminal organizations..... |
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