MURDER WILL OUT?

So if I understand this. There were 8 guys, each found dead in their cars. Some of the cars were thousands of feet apart, they werent huddled in a cluster.
None of the local news peddlers had anything about whether the victims were shot, or were they garroted , or what. This could have been some "car cult" mass suicide.
Were these , indeed, bikers?
Meth has reared its head again down here and the Philly suburbs are still a node of production. There are always houses just blowing up in nice suburban neighborhoods . Some "cook" gets too eager to complete his batch and the pots full of solvents just took off.

Weve got the AMish kids involved even. The bikers are using the "Rhumspringers" to act as mules. Every so often an Amish kid gets picked up or even killed.

I yearn for the days when the Mafia kept it down to more targeted assasinations, oh well, we cant live in the past.

Last Boxing Day?

Yes, Miss Wabbit . . . on Boxing Day, the area around "The Bay" (the flagship store of the Hudson's Bay Company) was thronged with shoppers. Nearby, on a corner by an athletic shoe store, gang members began to shoot at one another, and a teenaged girl (i believe she was 14) was killed in the crossfire. The RCMP (oops, Royal Canadian Mounted Police--who fill the role in Canada of the American Federal Bureau of Invesigation) allege that organized crime goes online to identify gun collectors, and then targets them for burglary. Antique or rare guns are fenced, and ordinary guns are sold on the street. Increasing gun violence is a major topic of public discussion in Canada.

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FM, meth is a problem in Canada, as well, as is the growing of high grade marijuana. The Hydro, as the publicly-owned electric company is known, works with police agencies to identify unusual patterns of electricity use to help find those with "grow operations" in their homes. Motorcycle gangs are, just as is the case in the United States, major players in such operations.

This is about the only topic on CBC1 this morning. They just played part of a documentary which was done a few years ago about how motorcycle gangs are moving into Canada, and buying property--sometimes remote farms such as this, and at other times, bars and nightclubs.

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(The reference is to the Hell's Angels motorcycle gang.)

Interesting fur sure, I had thought it was illegal to be a murder victim in canada. My how time changes things when you're in a coma.

I don't believe charges have yet been laid against the eight corpses, Dys, but the authorities are playing their cards close to the cuff. They have been reluctant to make statements.

worse case of suicide weve ever seen.

Huh? How did the perps manage to pull this off if they weren't all in one group?

All the vehicles were found pretty close together, in a wooded area, toward the edge of a farmer's field.



National Post

a bit of history

Mr. Muscedere - what a prince

Re: MURDER WILL OUT?


I got quite a few calls about this one at work in January. Lots of Americans offering me condolences. Not sure why they thought they should be extended to me personally, but thanks in any case.

Good for them. I suspect, however, that it did not attract all that much attention in the New Nited States.

Hell, we have2 or 3kids a day being killed in Philly alone

A daughter of one of the victims made a tearful plea to be left alone by the media. She also pointed out that they have no business describing all of them as "gang members" in a context of criminality. This is not a comment on my part about whether or not everyone concerned was involved in criminal activity, because, simply, i don't know. In a subsequent CBC interview, a commentator pointed out to the reporter that they are continually referred to as "gang members" without a distinction as to criminality, pointed out that the news reader did it again in response to his comment, and asked if the news reader could state without a doubt that all the victims were criminals. He pointed out that, in fact, investigators consider this a "cleansing" by gang leadership, and that some of the victims may have been killed because of a refusal on their part to engage in particular criminal activity. Once again, i'm just reporting what i heard, not that i know these things to be fact.

It apparently got quite a bit of news coverage in the U.S. I wasn't telling them about it - they were calling me in response to what they'd seen on the TV. Not sure why it got so much US media coverage, but it was there.

A couple of people in our office know the tow truck companies that two of the fellas worked for. Their comment was "what took so long?".

I subscribe two two morning newspapers. One is provincial. The other is Big Town Metropolitan. The first newspaper ignored the story. The second published both the original AP release, followed by breaking developments.

At least 150 people have died during the eight-year turf war between the Hells Angels and the Rock Machine.

CBC News Online

Biker gang members share a passion for leather jackets and motorcycles. But beneath the image of long-haired rebels with tattoos lies a criminal underworld.

Rival gang members are beaten, tortured and killed over turf. The gangs are fueled by multibillion dollar drug deals, with car theft, prostitution and money laundering rounding out the sources of revenue.

Biker gangs share these characteristics:
They show off their colors in public.
Biker gangs use force and violence to survive and grow. Intimidation, arms and explosives are their weapons of choice.
The organizations have a hierarchical structure. Committing crimes is left to new recruits while those higher up reap the rewards.
The hierarchical structure allows the leaders to operate with impunity while flaunting their image of power to attract recruits and draw them into crime.
It is difficult for law-enforcement agencies to infiltrate these organizations because becoming a member involves committing crimes.
The Criminal Intelligence Service of Canada considers the Hells Angels to be the foremost organized crime group, topping traditional Mafia and ethnic gangs. The Hells Angels began in 1948 in California and has grown to a network of 1,800 members in 22 countries.

It's estimated that Canada has about 250 full-fledged members and about 2,000 associates. The largest and most-feared chapter of the Hells Angels was formed in Montreal. In 1977 it merged with another gang called the Popeyes.

The Hells Angels' arch-rivals are the Rock Machine. The Rock Machine appeared on the Montreal crime scene in 1986 and now numbers about 60 full-fledged members.

Biker gangs are run like lucrative businesses. The FBI estimates the Hells Angels take in $1 billion a year worldwide from drug trafficking. In 1995, the east-end Montreal drug trade alone was worth about $5 million.

But the profits come at a deadly price. At least 150 people have died during the eight-year turf war between the Hells Angels and the Rock Machine. While Canadians were aware of the biker war, few cared until the death of 11-year-old Daniel Desrochers. He died when a bomb exploded outside a biker hangout.

His death and the outrage that followed prompted Bill C-95, the legislation that stiffens penalties for convicted offenders who are shown to be members of established criminal organizations.

Justice Minister Anne McLellan hopes the bill has enough teeth to stem the violence and end the crime. "As they find new ways to commit their criminal acts and hide their ill-gotten gains … it's incumbent on us to be one step ahead of them at least."

But as police and politicians attempt to put a stop to organized crime, biker gangs are expanding. The Rock Machine is rapidly spreading from Quebec into Ontario. So are the Hells Angels. They're countering with plans to expand into Ottawa and Sudbury. Police have also noticed a growing friendship between Hells Angels and Ontario's Satan's Choice gang.

Police fear the Rock Machine's expansion is their first step to build a cross-Canada network. The Rock Machine hopes to join a larger world-wide biker gang called the Bandidos. Their alliance may already be developing; the Bandidos Web site welcomes the Rock Machine members to their fold.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/bikergangs/

I was in Vancouver when the 15 year old was gunned down. There was a feeling amongst the Canadians that the age of innocence had ended...Canada was soon to follow the USA into an armed killing ground

Speaking for the west coast here, drive-by shootings are a far too common occurence these days. A lot of it has to do with the drug trade.