At 07:25 AM 5/31/02 -0400, you wrote:
>As usual, Kerry was right on.
>
>>Mythology usually differs...Organizers like
Bouchard are older career
>>criminals
Thanks Kevin, but unfortunately I'm just a wee bit off-
confusing the name of a past Canadian cabinet minister,
leader of the opposition and then premier of Quebec with the
leader of the Hells Angels elite Nomad squad, who is, of
course, "Mom" Boucher.
Where have I heard that name before? Oooooooh.
>The fact is, the bikers are just like any other
organized band of
>criminals. Think of them as the Sopranos, but with a
taste for Harleys
>instead of pasta. To dismiss them as merely a bunch
of greasy beer-bellied
>thugs terrorizing roadhouses is to turn a blind eye
to a very real and
>dangerous criminal threat.
Yes, but the Hells Angels aren't all bikers, no more than the
mafia represents all Italians. Most are doctors and lawyers
out for weekend rides. Many are a bunch of greasy,
beer-bellied thugs now too old to terrorize roadhouses. It's
just that the biker world makes a good milieu for criminal
activities. Well, what community doesn't, more or less? But
it's different, isn't it, to have this criminal activity grow
out of an isolated community of interest, as opposed to an
isolated ethnic community?
By the way, did anyone notice that a squad of 50 Hells
Angels, on bikes, is planned to lead Queen Lizzie's 50th
Jubilee parade? To all you Brit rare birds: will this finally
do in the monarchy?
Kerry
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