Last drinks for motorcycle club?

Posted on November 30, 2009 | Filed Under Biker News | Comments Off

ANTI-BIKIE laws have come to bear on a Murray Bridge motorcycle group in what the club is calling an attack on its reputation.

The Murray Bridge chapter of the Longriders Christian Motorcycle Club claims it was told it would be denied a limited liquor licence for a regular open night on November 13 because the application had been received late and because the Longriders had associated with outlaw bikies at a poker run earlier this year.

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Stand for Something or Fall for Anything

Posted on November 24, 2009 | Filed Under Biker News | Comments Off

An interesting article by a full patch member of God's Squad CMC relating his experience of being arrested (wrongfully) and his subsequent aquittal.

It's really quite frightening what happened to him and the "powers" the police were able to use.

You can read the article on the United Motorcycle Council NSW web site.

Link to God's Squad CMC

Keep the motor running

Posted on October 10, 2009 | Filed Under Biker News | Comments Off

Dylan Welch of the Sydney Morning Herald has written an interesting article about how Oz bikers are fighting back against Australia's Anti-Association Laws.

Dylan Welch takes an insider's look at the battle waged by bikies against a government crackdown.

Inside a small Penrith church hall a sign reads ''in case of emergency dial triple-0''. The hard men sitting nearby are unlikely to heed the message. More likely, they would be the emergency that necessitates the call.

Next to the sign, empty pizza boxes and soft drink cans are scattered across a rectangle of hastily arranged foldable desks. Blue plastic chairs creak under the weight of 38 leather and flannelette-clad men.

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Australia’s Anti-Association Laws

Posted on August 6, 2009 | Filed Under Biker News | Comments Off

The newly introduced “Anti-Association Laws” in New South Wales, Australia have been described as draconian and unfair. The law, while not directly naming bikers, has been introduced to combat the perceived threat of “Outlaw” bike clubs on society. Basically if you’re a member of a patch club the police can apply to the courts for an order to ban members from associating with one another. Break this law and you face up to five years in prison! The laws came into effect in April allowing the state's police commissioner to apply to the courts for the declaration of specific bikie clubs as illegal.

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