Dec 13th, 11am
admission 20.00 + 1 toy
includes meal, run pin, and door prizes
* Prizes
* Drawings
* Food and Drinks
* Live Music

NO MINORS

Angels Road House
38464 Dunlap blvd., Yucaipa, Ca.
909-795-0665

Dirty Harry’s
3731 E Main street, Mesa, AZ.

2pm – 2am
live bands, drink specials 81 support gear & give aways

Sexy Costume contest

10.00 per person, 15.00 per cpl

Meet your local Hells Angels at Tri-City Eagles lodge @ 9:00am.
2314 E Apache Blvd. Tempe, AZ.

all you can eat breakfast also available for a small fee.

Ride from Eagles Lodge to Arizona Joe’s for final party.
417 S. Winchester Road, Apache Junction

Brian Walsh – FOXNews.com

– July 21, 2009
You’re (Probably) a Federal Criminal

Federal law now criminalizes activities that the average person would never dream would land him in prison. Consequently, every year, thousands of upstanding, responsible Americans run afoul of some incomprehensible federal law and end up serving time in federal prison.

With all the attention that’s been paid lately to long federal sentences for drug offenders, it’s surprising that a far more troubling phenomenon has barely hit the media’s radar screen. Every year, thousands of upstanding, responsible Americans run afoul of some incomprehensible federal law or regulation and end up serving time in federal prison.

What is especially disturbing is that it could happen to anyone at all — and it has.

We should applaud Reps. Bobby Scott (D-Va.) and Louie Gohmert (R-Texas), then, for holding a bipartisan hearing today to examine how federal law can make a criminal out of anyone, for even the most mundane conduct.

Federal law in particular now criminalizes entire categories of activities that the average person would never dream would land him in prison. This is an inevitable result of the fact that the criminal law is no longer restricted to punishing inherently wrongful conduct — such as murder, rape, robbery, and the like.

Moreover, under these new laws, the government can often secure a conviction without having to prove that the person accused even intended to commit a bad act, historically a protection against wrongful conviction.

Laws like this are dangerous in the hands of social engineers and ambitious lawmakers — not to mention overzealous prosecutors — bent on using government’s greatest civilian power to punish any activity they dislike. So many thousands of criminal offenses are now in federal law that a prominent federal appeals court judge titled his recent essay on this overcriminalization problem, “You’re (Probably) a Federal Criminal.”

Consider small-time inventor and entrepreneur Krister Evertson, who will testify at today’s hearing. Krister never had so much as a traffic ticket before he was run off the road near his mother’s home in Wasilla, Alaska, by SWAT-armored federal agents in large black SUVs training automatic weapons on him.

Evertson, who had been working on clean-energy fuel cells since he was in high school, had no idea what he’d done wrong. It turned out that when he legally sold some sodium (part of his fuel-cell materials) to raise cash, he forgot to put a federally mandated safety sticker on the UPS package he sent to the lawful purchaser.

Krister’s lack of a criminal record did nothing to prevent federal agents from ransacking his mother’s home in their search for evidence on this oh-so-dangerous criminal.

The good news is that a federal jury in Alaska acquitted Krister of all charges. The jurors saw through the charges and realized that Krister had done nothing wrong.

The bad news, however, is that the feds apparently had it in for Krister. Federal criminal law is so broad that it gave prosecutors a convenient vehicle to use to get their man.

Two years after arresting him, the feds brought an entirely new criminal prosecution against Krister on entirely new grounds. They used the fact that before Krister moved back to Wasilla to care for his 80-year-old mother, he had safely and securely stored all of his fuel-cell materials in Salmon, Idaho.

According to the government, when Krister was in jail in Alaska due to the first unjust charges, he had “abandoned” his fuel-cell materials in Idaho. Unfortunately for Krister, federal lawmakers had included in the Resource Recovery and Conservation Act a provision making it a crime to abandon “hazardous waste.” According to the trial judge, the law didn’t require prosecutors to prove that Krister had intended to abandon the materials (he hadn’t) or that they were waste at all — in reality, they were quite valuable and properly stored away for future use.

With such a broad law, the second jury didn’t have much of a choice, and it convicted him. He spent almost two years locked up with real criminals in a federal prison. After he testifies today, he will have to return to his halfway house in Idaho and serve another week before he is released.

The other hardened criminal whose story members of Congress will hear today is retiree George Norris. A longtime resident of Spring, Texas, Norris made the mistake of not knowing and keeping track of all of the details of federal and international law on endangered species — mostly paperwork requirements — before he decided to turn his orchid hobby into a small business. What was Norris’s goal? To earn a little investment income while his wife neared retirement.

The Lacey Act is an example of the dangerous overbreadth of federal criminal law. Incredibly, Congress has made it a federal crime to violate any fish or wildlife law or regulation of any nation on earth.

Facing 10 years in federal prison, Norris pled guilty and served almost two. His wife, Kathy, describes the pain of losing their life savings to pay for attorneys and trying to explain to grandchildren why for so long Poppa George couldn’t see them.

Federal criminal law did not get so badly broken overnight, and it will take hard work to get it fixed. It is encouraging that members of Congress such as Reps. Scott and Gohmert are now paying attention to the toll overcriminalization takes on ordinary Americans. Congress needs to begin fixing the damage it has done by starting to restore a more reasonable, limited and just federal criminal law. Today’s hearing is an excellent first step.

Brian W. Walsh is Senior Legal Research Fellow in the Center for Legal and Judicial Studies at The Heritage Foundation (heritage.org).

MOTORCYCLE CLUBS ARE NOT STREET GANGS.
(If you believe they are, then the same must be held true of Law Enforcement) if your reaction is… “a few bad apples don’t spoil the whole bunch” then that applies to ANY organization….doesn’t it??

By Jason Kessler
CNN

(CNN) — A group of black Philadelphia police officers filed a federal lawsuit Thursday against their department, alleging an online forum geared toward city police is “infested with racist, white supremacist and anti-African-American content.” A group of black police officers claim other colleagues post racist messages on domelights.com during work.

A group of black police officers claim other colleagues post racist messages on domelights.com during work.

The suit alleges white officers post on and moderate the privately operated site, Domelights.com, both on and off the job.

Domelights’ users “often joke about the racially offensive commentary on the site … or will mention them in front of black police officers,” thus creating “a racially hostile work environment,” according to lawyers for the all-black Guardian Civic League, the lead plaintiff in the suit.

A look at the site’s forums Friday for racist comments found several possibilities.

Reads one: “In urban areas, it seems [African-Americans] living on welfare in paid for housing is ingrained in their culture as well as fighting. … Kids, along with adults can’t speak proper English or spell at a 3rd grade level, but they can sing among “theyselves” the lyrics to a rap song.”

Said another Domelights user of an African-American woman: “She is a classic example of that exact non tax paying, no car insurance driving, bad weave wearing, all the whitey’s are racist black women.”

The site’s tagline is “the voice of the good guys.”
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“Every time African-Americans do or say something in our city, we get this backlash of cops who think they’re anonymous on this Web site — just racist, nasty, hurtful things about what we do,” said Rochelle Bilal, the president of the Guardian Civic League and a 23-year veteran of the force.

The league’s attorney said other black officers echo Bilal’s statement.

“We’ve heard the same story over and over again, which is that [African-American officers] witness in the workplace Domelights being used and discussed [in a racial manner],” said Brian Mildenberg, whose firm is also representing a Philadelphia day camp that recently gained national attention when its mostly black campers were turned away from a swim club.

He said it was “a gift from the heavens in a way that the two things happened at once.”

While Mildenberg and Bilal said they had been monitoring the 10-year-old Web site for years, the pool incident did seem to play into the timing of the lawsuit.

“When they said something about our pretty, brown, young, innocent children and called them monkeys because they wanted to go swimming, that was enough,” Bilal said.

She may have been referring to this comment posted on Domelights: “Maybe the people who work for a living didn’t want to swim with a bunch of ghetto monkey faces.”

The lawsuit also highlights comments made on Domelights by the site’s founder and administrator, a sergeant in the Philadelphia police force who goes by the online handle “McQ.”

A statement from McQ that Mildenberg described as “racially abusive commentary” reads, “Blacks and other minorities frequently don’t have the resources that white people have. Consequently, blacks may not be able to keep their vehicles inspected, registered, and roadworthy.”

McQ is also listed as a defendant in the lawsuit. Asked why McQ bears responsibility for the racist remarks of his site’s anonymous commenters, Mildenberg said it was because “he started it.”

The person known as McQ did not respond to a request for comment, but posted a message on the site citing the lawsuit. McQ wrote that the suit may cause the Web site to be suspended, but added his statement was not an admission of wrongdoing.

“I categorically deny any wrongdoing on my part,” the message reads. “I did not make racist posts. I did not maintain the Web site on city time.”

Ideally, Mildenberg said, his clients would like to see the site shut down. Failing that, they want Philadelphia police officers to be prohibited from posting comments on the site, particularly during working hours.

The plaintiffs in the class-action suit also are seeking unspecified financial damages available under the Civil Rights Act for Philadelphia’s 2,300 African-American police officers, according to Mildenberg.

Shelley Smith, Philadelphia’s city solicitor, said. “The lawsuit is about a private Web site. It’s not a police department Web site. It’s not operated or overseen by the police department. The allegations against the city and police department are misplaced.”

MOTORCYCLE CLUBS ARE NOT STREET GANGS.
(If you believe they are, then the same must be held true of Law Enforcement) if your reaction is… “a few bad apples don’t spoil the whole bunch” then that applies to ANY organization….doesn’t it??

Orig article: http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/07/17/police.racism.lawsuit/index.html

(CNN) — A former California police officer accused of sexually assaulting a motorist during a traffic stop pleaded guilty in federal court, the Central District of California U.S. Attorney said Friday.
Federal prosecutors charged Feliciano Sanchez with deprivation of rights under color of law.

Federal prosecutors charged Feliciano Sanchez with deprivation of rights under color of law.

Feliciano Sanchez, 34, admitted in court Thursday that while on duty on May 16, 2007, he pulled over a female driver in a traffic stop and forced her to perform oral sex on him, according to a news release from U.S. Attorney Thomas O’Brien.

Sanchez, then of Los Angeles County’s Bell Police Department, stopped the woman for speeding or weaving down the road, said central California U.S. attorney spokesman Thom Mrozek, citing court documents.

After learning the woman, identified as R.H. in court documents, did not have a driver’s license with her, Sanchez told her he suspected her of drinking and her car would be towed, Mrozek said.

Sanchez offered to drive R.H. to her job, but instead drove her to the parking lot of an auto repair outlet in Bell, Mrozek said.

Sanchez placed his hand on his gun and forced her to perform sex on him in his patrol car, Mrozek said. Afterward, Sanchez drove R.H. to her work place, Mrozek said.

“Officer Sanchez brutalized a person he had sworn to serve,” O’Brien said in the release. “As a result of his criminal conduct, Mr. Sanchez now faces a substantial amount of time in federal prison. His conduct eroded public confidence in law enforcement and cast a pall over his former colleagues who obey the law, proudly working to preserve public safety.”

Federal prosecutors charged Sanchez with a civil rights violation, according to the release.

The crime carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison upon sentencing. Sanchez has been held without bond since his arrest in May 2007, Mrozek said. Sanchez’s sentencing is scheduled for November 18.

Sanchez resigned as an officer after his indictment, Bell Police Department Capt. Anthony Miranda said. Miranda said Sanchez’s case was a first for the department.

“We were in shock, and actually, disbelief,” he said.

MOTORCYCLE CLUBS ARE NOT STREET GANGS.
(If you believe they are, then the same must be held true of Law Enforcement) if your reaction is… “a few bad apples don’t spoil the whole bunch” then that applies to ANY organization….doesn’t it??

original article: http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/07/17/officer.sex.assault/index.html

Source: philly.com
Source: nydailynews.com

A former NYPD cop and karate teacher faces at least 10 years in prison after admitting he took teenage girls across state lines so he could have sex with them, officials said.

After vehemently denying the charges for more than a year, Trent Young, 41, pleaded guilty late Thursday in White Plains Federal Court.

The married father of three was accused of using the oath of obedience from his New Jersey dojo to coerce two students – girls ages 14 and 15 – to come to his Middletown, Orange County, home for sex sessions in 2006 and 2007.

He was also charged with taking a third girl from Brooklyn to his house to have sex in 2003.

Locked up since his January 2008 arrest, Young faces a possible life term when he’s sentenced in January. The nine-year veteran was suspended from the NYPD after his arrest and was fired following his guilty plea.

He said he twice took girls from his home to his Iron Tiger studio in West Milford, N.J., for sex. In the third case, he took a girl from her Brooklyn home to his home via New Jersey.

MOTORCYCLE CLUBS ARE NOT STREET GANGS.
(If you believe they are, then the same must be held true of Law Enforcement) if your reaction is… “a few bad apples don’t spoil the whole bunch” then that applies to ANY organization….doesn’t it??

Source: The Houston Chronicle

Lubbock, TX – LUBBOCK – Nearly 30 defendants, including two Texas sheriff’s deputies, have been charged with operating a methamphetamine trafficking ring in Texas, Arizona and California, authorities announced Friday.

The 110-count indictment returned earlier this week in Lubbock charges members of the Aces and Eights Outlaw Motorcycle Gang, as well as two sheriff’s deputies in Hockley County, Texas.

The indictment alleges motorcycle gang founder Bobby Duwayne Froman recruited fellow bikers to take cash to Modesto, Calif., where they bought large quantities of methamphetamine. The bikers then took the drug to Levelland, Texas, about 30 miles west of Lubbock. The group used Levelland as a base to distribute the drugs through West Texas and elsewhere.

The drug ring had been active since January 2003, officials said.

The deputies, Gordon Clark Bohannon and Jose Jesus Quintanilla, provided the gang members with information that hurt investigators efforts to shut down the ring, according to a statement from the Department of Justice.

Bohannon was arrested and will be arraigned July 20, according to court documents. His attorney declined to comment.

Quintanilla and Froman did not have attorneys listed in their online court records.

“It is particularly disappointing to all who conducted this investigation that two law enforcement officers were indicted by the grand jury and arrested on federal charges,” said Robert E. Casey Jr., the FBI special agent in charge. “The FBI’s principal concern in this case is not only the safety and security of the law-abiding citizens of Hockley County, but that their trust and confidence in law enforcement is preserved.”

Twenty-eight defendants each face one count of conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute 500 grams or more of methamphetamine. The indictment also charges some of the defendants with maintaining drug-involved premises, possession with intent to distribute 500 grams or more of methamphetamine, possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine, simple possession of methamphetamine, unlawful use of a communications facility and various firearms counts.

If convicted, each defendant would face a minimum of 10 years in prison and a fine of up to $4 million.

MOTORCYCLE CLUBS ARE NOT STREET GANGS.
(If you believe they are, then the same must be held true of Law Enforcement) if your reaction is… “a few bad apples don’t spoil the whole bunch” then that applies to ANY organization….doesn’t it??

BY: Nate Walsh
Source: wggb.com

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (abc40) — A former Springfield police officer has been sentenced to three to four years in prison and has been ordered to pay back the just under $2,000 he stole from tobacco workers during a 2008 traffic stop.

Hampden Superior Court Judge Cornelius Moriarty III handed down the sentence Thursday morning after a jury convicted Patrolman Steven Buzzell, 35, guilty of three counts of larceny over $250. His partner at the time of the theft, Patrolman Leonardo Matos, 40, was found not guilty of the same charges.

Buzzell will serve his sentence at the Massachusetts Correctional Institute at Cedar Junction, and will be placed on five years probation following his release.

Each of the officers had denied taking the money during a 2008 Hancock Street traffic stop of three men, who had just cashed their checks for agricultural work they were doing in Connecticut. The men testified their wallets were searched during the stop, at which point their money was stolen.

Buzzell had reportedly earned more than $80,000 from the police department in 2007.

MOTORCYCLE CLUBS ARE NOT STREET GANGS.
(If you believe they are, then the same must be held true of Law Enforcement) if your reaction is… “a few bad apples don’t spoil the whole bunch” then that applies to ANY organization….doesn’t it??

original article:
http://www.wggb.com/Global/story.asp?S=10635483