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Why race is the main reason the murderous bloodbath in Waco was handled with velvet gloves

by Shaun King for shaunking
Mon May 18, 2015 at 07:58 AM PDT
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/05/18/1385588/-Why-race-is-the-main-reason-the-murderous-bloodbath-in-Waco-was-romanticized-w-velvet-gloves?detail=hide

Bonds Set At $1 Million For Twin Peaks Shooting Suspects .. WACO (May 18, 2015)
http://www.kwtx.com/home/headlines/Waco-Shooting-Near-Twin-Peaks-In-Waco-304043711.html

I don't understand why police are reluctant (as far as i've seen) to give names of the gangs involved .. that fact
feels to, as well as the rest, support the "velvet gloves" position .. this next has lots of non-brutal looking photos ..

Waco Biker Shooting: 192 To Face Charges After Mass Shootout Outside Texas Restaurant
The Huffington Post UK/PA | By Louise Ridley
Posted: 18/05/2015 08:34 BST Updated: 18/05/2015 13:59 BST
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2015/05/18/waco-shooting-bikers_n_7303540.html

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Some history

The first one has a different link to an article on Sydney Australia's infamous September 2 1984 Milperra
Massacre .. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milperra_massacre .. also known as the Father's Day Massacre

How the Bandidos became one of the world’s most feared biker gangs .. By Michael E. Miller May 18 at 4:19 AM
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/05/18/how-the-bandidos-became-americas-most-feared-biker-gang/

.. and further to the one "New laws in bikie war pass Queensland Parliament" this post sits in reply to .. in October 2013 Queensland, Australia
passed some of the toughest anti-bikie laws in the world .. http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2015/jan/01/queensland-bikie-laws-success-claims-are-propaganda-former-outcast-says ..
some 90%? of the comments i read deny the criminality associated with the gangs .. this event is only one of many that puts that whitewash to bed ..

Nomads bikie gang members charged in Sydney's west following police raid .. Updated 31 Jan 2015, 2:00pm
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-01-31/nomads-bikie-gang-members-charged-after-police-raid/6059328

The Queensland laws have been criticized by many as being too draconian, and for (what's new) not getting too many of the top dogs of the
bikers criminal activities .. i don't know Joshua Robertson, but taken at face value it doesn't seem he could be called an apologist for them ..

Queensland election: crackdown on bikies' subculture an exercise in futility .. Joshua Robertson

The Campbell Newman government’s laws have not stopped the drug market that fuelled bikies’ ill-gotten gains and violence


Thousands of riders gathered in opposition to Queensland’s anti-bikie legislation in Brisbane in 2013. Photograph: Kym Agius/AAP

Wednesday 28 January 2015 22.41 EST
http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2015/jan/29/queensland-election-crackdown-on-bikies-subculture-an-exercise-in-futility

and here .. Queensland's 'war' on bikie gangs goes too far ..
Opinion By Greg Barns .. Posted 16 Oct 2013, 3:03pm
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-10-16/barns-queensland-bikie-laws/5025742

The Queensland anti-bikie gang law has been challenged

Hells Angel takes on bikie laws in court, but what are his chances? .. March 20 2014, 10.58pm EDT
http://theconversation.com/hells-angel-takes-on-bikie-laws-in-court-but-what-are-his-chances-24619

and upheld .. Anti-bikie laws: High Court rejects challenge to Queensland VLAD laws .. Updated 15 Nov 2014, 7:25am
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-11-14/high-court-rejects-challenge-to-vlad-anti-bikie-laws/5890254

Hmm .. ok .. i see just now the latest wacko of Waco has made it to the top of my Google News ..

Waco, Texas, biker gang gathering ends in bloodbath; 9 dead, 170 arrested
http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-waco-biker-gang-deaths-20150518-story.html#page=1