Police warn bikies

Here's a reprint of an ABC news item following The Finks Motorcycle Club ride to Perth in Western Australia. My comments follow it.

Police warn bikies
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/10/23/2722893.htm

Police in Perth have rejected suggestions their crack down on motorcycle gangs is overkill.
Police have conducted numerous roadblocks targeting Finks Motorcycle Club members who are on their way to Perth for a party this weekend.
About 80 members have arrived in Perth so far by road and plane but police expect that number will increase to about two-hundred.
A senior member of the Finks bikie gang has criticised the heavy police response to the gang's arrival in Perth.
The Sergeant at Arms of the Blacktown chapter of the gang, known as Ferret, says the operation is a waste of taxpayers money.
"It's overkill where else could that money be spent? hospitals school roads safety," he said.
"Why waste it on us?
"All they need is two coppers at a time, two is enough to pull us over."
Assistant Commissioner for Specialist Crime, Nick Anticich, won't reveal how many officers will be monitoring the bikies activities this weekend.
"It is about public safety," he said.
"These people have shown an abilty to conduct or engage in unlawful acts in the presence of police.
"Our position is to present a police presence to deter them from undertaking such activity."
He says the operation is not a waste of money.
"Cost is not a consideration this is about public safety," he said.
"The presence of police is to deter crimes occurring.
"The price we pay by allowing these people to commit crimes on the public of Western Australia is too expensive, too expensive in terms of the cost afterwards."


My Thinks:

Hmmm..., Funny that the ABC are doing such a wunnerful job of reporting the Western Australian coppers monitoring the Finks as they travel to meet and greet their Bro's in Perth, W.A.? (Albeit that the article reprinted above was scribed by an ABC staffer, no doubt with a university degree, and yet who can't even use their computer's “spellchecker” properly, insert commas and capitalize the first word of a sentence?)
But let's face it, The Finks are as likely NOT schooled at Christian Brothers College or Wesley or any other church-run-Grammar, nor would they have attended any upper-class University in Australia, or elsewhere on Earth, so would NOT have uni degrees in say, medicine, or law, or politics or some other upper-class well-bred ticket to cruise through a police road block un-harassed, like the never-arrested Eurapean tourists, who as often have a bag of marijuana or a few ecstasy tablets in their possession.
None of the Finks are likely to have rich upper management corporate executive daddies who can make a phone call to their Queen's Counselor mates to call the dogs off, when the dogs are told by the upper-class knobs inside the W.A. Parliament to harass them.
However, The Finks MIGHT have something that brings them together and Unites them against the upper class tyranny of MASSIVE multinational corporate corruption, enough to make them APPEAR a threat to the wine-drinkers of Western Australia, be-the tipplers of the “Labor side” or “Liberal”?
Maybe The Finks would, all things considered, simply PREFER to enjoy a Happy and Relaxing motorcycle ride across THEIR country, across the same Country they'd Happily Respect in the same way as their Country's Original Owners - The Aborigine - to party with their Associates, were the nation not controlled by tyrannical, genocidal upper-class megalomaniacs who determine that THEY can mistreat The True Fella People who are essentially powerless against their, THEIR church-schooled brands of totalitarianism.
True Fella People, that is, whose parents weren't schooled to be callous, Soul-less corporate class executives, parents who had no misgivings about graduating and working for a foreign corporation which specialized in thieving the Land from under Aborigine's feet, producing environmentally destructive stuff and oppressing the less-privileged classes.
Rich white parents - whose church schools ensured THEY weren't drafted to serve overseas in some other country's drugs-related war-zone, and put their lives on the line to keep Eurape's drug-trafficking routes flowing.
Nah! The Finks are just Human Beings! They'se not GODS like the snobs from Toorak or those wealthy suburbs in Adelaide and Perth!?
And, as likely, The Finks didn't have anything to do with running illegal immigration networks for the drop-out kids of wealthy Eurapean industrialists and bankers, and weren't born into property, and weren't lucky enough to have parents who owned massive swathes of real estate and holiday houses on any scenic shoreline you could imagine.
And, as likely, The Finks had to go out and WORK in a thing called A JOB, in some machinery or auto or other smelly polluting plant to afford to keep a roof over their heads.
Yeah..., it's interesting, and, I guess good, that THEIR ABC, that-is the upper-classes ABC, are covering the sensational events as a group of motorcyclists who, yes probably have a few criminal records for their need to gather funds for one thing or another, try to ride motorcycles (OOOW! THOSE NOISY, SCARY, DANGEROUS MACHINES!?!?) across their country of birth for a parlay and drinkee-poohs with some mates in Perth.
But, as they prefer to be “out there” in the fresh air, riding their bikes, I guess (Umm? I KNOW!!!) they are a whole lot more in touch with the environment, than the cloistered knobs in parliament in Adelaide, Perth or Canberra?
A bloke needs no church schooling to know that someone, SOMEONE, is going hell-for-leather at ensuring the planet's environment is trashed for everyone's kids in the future?
Just a dam shame that we who are “out there” are as much “out there” because the knobs need slaves to do the HARD YAKKA of an honest day's work, driving trucks, digging trenches, dodging bullets, paying taxes.
Little wonder the working classes need to get hammered at the end of the week!

Have a Good Ride, Finks!

As I once had on the back of my Gemini wagon "I'd Rather Be Ridin'!"