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The Waco "Kerfuffle" (Original Post)
kpete
May 2015
OP
This is a pretty big fail, I haven't seen any sympathetic coverage of the biker gangs.
tritsofme
May 2015
#8
B2G
(9,766 posts)1. Yeah. That's exactly how it was characterized.
99th_Monkey
(19,326 posts)2. Pretty much
Gothmog
(145,130 posts)4. Great cartoon
uponit7771
(90,335 posts)5. yeap
RandySF
(58,772 posts)6. But believe it or not...
some people in DU are siding with the biker gangs as well.
Sen. Walter Sobchak
(8,692 posts)7. I can really only speak for California...
but I don't think I have ever seen biker gangs portrayed as anything other than psychopathic drug dealers and pimps.
tritsofme
(17,376 posts)8. This is a pretty big fail, I haven't seen any sympathetic coverage of the biker gangs.
AllyCat
(16,178 posts)13. CNN tonight portrayed the bikers as involved
In warfare"
SoapBox
(18,791 posts)9. And as a side note...
Banksters that almost brought down the world...walk free, rich and happy.
Cleita
(75,480 posts)11. Those are the real gangsters. They destroy people's lives. eom
hugo_from_TN
(1,069 posts)10. Alternative reality I guess
Cleita
(75,480 posts)12. Kerfuffle, my ass.
This was viscious drug dealers killing each other. Oh but they were mostly white assholes so it's a kerfuffle.