Will you be next? Motorcycle Capital revisted

These guys are going to war. Although we pray they all make it back safely, some of them may not.

Every morning across America riders get on their bikes and go to war. They enter into one of the worst battlefields in existence. Our country's highways.

And my bet is unlike the soldiers pictured, very few have the thought,
"I could die to day". I could get taken out by a CID (Cell phone impaired driver). The soldiers have been trained, they have backup, they have buddies to come to the rescue and drag them to safety. You are riding alone. You have no one to rely on but yourself,
you are outnumbered and at the mercy of whoever ain't watching out for you and that accounts for most of the other drivers on the road.

The same is true of your friends that ride. The same is true for your parents, children or any of your loved one's that ride.

When the soldiers get attacked, they strike back, they go on the offense and attack the attackers. When "bikers" get taken out we look at the calendar to see when the next "doggie run is".

Count the number of MC deaths in our area alone where someone was taken out by an inattentive driver. Count the number of MC groups in this area that if banded together could mount an offensive and change the course of the battle that results in daily road carnage ourselves as the victim. But what do we do? Continue to be victims.

We ride for the victims of countless other diseases and illnesses. We ride to feed the dogs at the dog pound. We ride to save wild animals. We ride for folk that have money and don't really need ours. We go to rally's get drunk sit in front of a stage and listen to some retro burnout band butchering "Born to be Wild" while we cheer and glorify in our inebriated fantasies enriching further more the pockets of the fat cat promoters who could care less.

We are supposed to be the last bastion of individuality, independence, a freedom loving brotherhood but are quickly becoming lambs led to the slaughter. Be thou not afraid of the grim reaper for we have invited him amongst us and even pay him to stick around. rc

AND IF THE ONE BELOW ISNT ENOUGH

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime_file/2007/06/24/2007-06-24_2_cops_could_duck_rap_in_bikers_death-2_print.html

Bobby Roman: A police car allegedly hit and killed Roman before leaving the scene.

Two Brooklyn cops who were involved in a fatal hit-and-run accident - and didn't stop to help the victim - may duck criminal charges, the Daily News has learned.

The officers were chasing a speeding motorcyclist, Bobby Roman, in Bedford-Stuyvesant on July 9 when the Kawasaki clipped a vehicle it was trying to pass, according to a law enforcement official and court records. Roman, 26, was thrown from the bike into a building at Fulton St. and Spencer Place and killed - but the patrol car and the car that was
clipped never stopped.

The action was caught by a police surveillance video mounted near the scene, which triggered a probe by prosecutors and NYPD Internal Affairs, said a spokesman for Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes. Yet it appears the cops, who were not named in the court record, will
not be charged with a crime.

The cops never put a call about the chase over the air, so it's unclear why they were pursuing Roman, who lived in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

(EDITED SEE LINK FOR FULL STORY)

Currently there is a lot of controversy over endangering the public during high speed police chases. But the reality is if you don't run they won't chase you (though there has been a time or two in Texas where running may have been an option). However heres the thing, we don't know why the dude was being chased, we do know that he was caught (by hitting another car) and we also know that no one (including the police) stopped to render aid. Maybe they just figured Justice was done. But then maybe justice hasn't been done yet. Maybe justice will b e done

It is not easing up Folk

Again from GypsyPashn of "Bikers Republic"
http://www.myfoxatlanta.com/myfox/pages/News/Detail?contentId=3583151&version=1&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=TSTY&pageId=3.2.1 Last Edited: Sunday, 24 Jun 2007, 6:30 PM EDT Memorial Ride held for fallen officer. SideBar Reported By: Charles Molineaux
(Edited, for full story see the link above)

JONESBORO, Ga. (FOX 5) – Relatives of a Clayton County policeman killed in a motorcycle accident said they were overwhelmed and proud after a large show of support for the fallen officer Sunday. Hundreds of people rumbled through Jonesboro in a memorial ride for Shawn Newlin.

The accident that killed Newlin is still under investigation, but investigators said is looked as if the driver of the car involved in the accident, pulled out in front of Newlin without seeing him. The driver wasn't charged in the accident.

OPERATIVE WORDS: DRIVER NOT CHARGED. ACCIDENT STILL UNDER INVESTIGATION. rc