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Finks argue 'more crime' in govt and police - ABC Online - A member of the Finks Motorcycle Club has criticised anti-bikie laws in a speech to the National Press Club.
Members of the Finks and Rebels have attended a lunch in Canberra to voice their opposition to laws in several states aimed at limiting association.
A Finks member, Ferret, representing the United Motorcycle Council of New South Wales, said the laws were unjust.
He argued there was more crime within government and the police force.
"I'm not trying to say all bikers are saints, just like not all politicians or police are squeaky clean," he said.
"But I would say that there is more organised criminal activity every day in Australia's governments and police services than you would find at your local biker clubhouse."
Ferret drew on corruption concerns in Queensland to make a point.
"The behaviour of the few does not justify punishing or taking away the rights of the whole," he said.
"Think about it this way - if the behaviour of a few was enough to justify a criminal tag being applied to all then [Premier] Anna Bligh up in Queensland should be declaring her own party a criminal organisation."
'Small'
Criminology expert Paul Wilson from Bond University has told the gathering that bikie-related crime is a minor issue.
"Gang-related violence represents just 0.6 per cent of all crime in Australia and biker groups represents probably half of that - about 0.3 per cent," he said.
"OK it's significant, some of it is horrific, but it's a very small proportion."
South Australia is among states where tough anti-association laws have been passed.
Ferret says South Australian police have sought control orders against Finks members who have no criminal record.
"The Finks Motorcycle Club in South Australia has had a control order placed on it. Nine of our members have control orders placed on them," he said.
"Two of those members have no criminal record.
"How many people in New South Wales have no criminal record who can also have a control order placed on them? Under secret police intelligence, that's what it's come to."
A group opposed to the SA laws has registered as a political party with a hope of contesting the state election next March.

All quiet on the biker rally front - The Pueblo Chieftain - The property west of Pueblo pegged for a rally of the Bandidos Motorcycle Club was quiet Tuesday afternoon.
That will likely change once an estimated 1,000 to 1,400 motorcyclists arrive Thursday, but Pueblo law enforcement officials said the only noise they expect will be from the bikes themselves.
That's not to say that law enforcement is turning a deaf ear toward the rally.
Pueblo County Sheriff Kirk Taylor said Tuesday that area law enforcement had completed its last meeting to prepare for the rally, staged on private property west of the South Side landfill.
But Taylor characterized the planning as similar to what the departments would do for any major event in the county. Taylor said his office "continues to gather intelligence" from contacts within the motorcycle club.
"We're trying to determine what resources we would need to have available should the worst happen," Taylor said.
But both the sheriff and Police Chief Jim Billings said they don't expect the worst from the club.
"It's mostly on the lines of precautionary," Billings said. "We're not anticipating any problems based on what we've heard from previous rallies."
The Bandidos are classified by the U.S. Department of Justice as an outlaw motorcycle club linked to criminal activity. Billings said the FBI, Drug Enforcement Agency, Immigration Customs and Enforcement and "pretty much any law enforcement agency" participated in the Tuesday morning meeting.
Meanwhile, the bikers will be looking for a place to stay this week and Pueblo's two South Side hotels are filling up with reservations, said Greater Pueblo Chamber of Commerce President Rod Slyhoff.
Slyhoff said the Hampton Inn and Suites and Microtel hotels were close to being sold out Tuesday and were apparently the designated headquarters for the rally.
In a contradiction of public images that will probably help fill the city's hotel rooms to capacity this weekend, Slyhoff said the Jehovah's Witnesses will be holding one of their five annual conventions at the Colorado State Fairgrounds in Pueblo.

Federal charges filed in SF biker killing - San Francisco Chronicle - A member of a rival motorcycle club is now facing federal murder and weapons charges in the slaying of the leader of the San Francisco Hells Angels chapter, court records show.
Christopher Ablett, 36, who is already facing state charges, pleaded not guilty July 29 in U.S. District Court in San Francisco to charges of murder in aid of racketeering and two gun-possession charges in the September slaying of Mark "Papa" Guardado, the head of the Hells Angels' "Frisco" chapter.
Authorities believe Ablett shot Guardado, 46, after what police describe as a "wrestling match" outside a Mission District bar the night of Sept. 2. Witnesses told police that the killer rode away on a motorcycle; police later searched the home in Modesto where Ablett lived with his parents and his two children and seized a 2005 Harley-Davidson.
Police say Ablett is a member of the Mongols Motorcycle Club, a rival group to the Hells Angels.
Ablett killed Guardado "for the purpose of gaining entrance to and maintaining and increasing his position in the Mongols, an enterprise engaged in racketeering," according to an indictment handed up July 23 by a federal grand jury in San Francisco and unsealed last week.
Ablett is a freelance electrician who lives in a suburban neighborhood of Modesto, police said.
Police had described Ablett as a rank-and-file member of the Mongols. The Hells Angels and the Mongols have engaged in a long-running feud, punctuated by an April 2002 fight between dozens of members in a Laughlin, Nev., casino that resulted in the deaths of three bikers and caused 13 injuries.
More than 1,000 motorcyclists from around the world gathered in Daly City for Guardado's funeral.
Ablett turned himself in to police in Oklahoma in October. He is being held without bail at a downtown Oakland jail and returns to court Aug. 12.
If convicted of the federal murder charge or a charge of possession of a firearm in a murder, he could also face the death penalty, although federal prosecutors have not said whether they would seek it. If they do not seek the death penalty on the murder charge, Ablett faces a mandatory minimum of life in prison if convicted.
There have been no death penalty trials in San Francisco Superior Court since 1991, when Clifford Bolden was sentenced to death for a robbery and fatal stabbing. Bolden is the only San Franciscan among 680 condemned prisoners in California.
District Attorney Kamala Harris and her predecessor, Terence Hallinan, have had policies against seeking the death penalty.

Biker Boss: We're Not Crooks, Just Outlaws - Sky News - The head of one of Europe's biggest biker gangs says his group is not involved in organised crime, despite its members murdering an arch rival and taking part in a mini-riot.
The Outlaws biker gang
The Outlaws biker gang rejects police beliefs that it is involved in organised crime
'Dink' is European and Asian president of The Outlaws Motorcycle Club, a group he says is just friends getting together for a laugh - but which police say is involved in drugs, prostitution, murder and extortion throughout the world.
Detectives fear a worldwide feud between the Outlaws and sworn enemies the Hells Angels is increasingly being played out in the UK.
But Dink told Sky News: "If any of our lads have done anything wrong we've been punished for it.
"We're disorganised really, we just get together and have a laugh, we're just different."
My feeling was it was a rather stupid thing to do, it just gives the authorities all the ammunition they've been looking for.
Dink, of The Outlaws, on the shooting of Hells Angel Gerry Tobin.
Dink was speaking ahead of the Bulldog Bash, the Hells Angels-organised biker event at Long Marston, near Stratford-upon-Avon, which Warwickshire Police have tried to ban after the murder of Gerry Tobin.
He was a London Hells Angel shot dead on the M40 in Warwickshire as he rode home from the Bash in 2007.
Seven Outlaws have since been convicted of his murder.
Dink said he only found out about the shooting afterwards, adding: "These things happen, they were duly punished for it.
"My feeling was it was a rather stupid thing to do, it just gives the authorities all the ammunition they've been looking for."
Police across Europe are reporting increased violence between biker gangs, as they fight for control of rival areas.
In the UK, members of The Outlaws and Hells Angels clashed in a mini-riot at Birmingham International Airport in January 2008.
It left one man seriously injured as the bikers used machetes, knuckle dusters and hammers against each other.
Warwickshire Police is worried that if something is not done the UK could soon have problems similar to those in parts of Europe and Australia.
Tracking The Biker Gangs
In Europe, tit-for-tat murders of rival biker leaders are becoming more commonplace, particularly in Germany and Denmark.
Warwickshire Police Assistant Chief Constable Bill Holland said: "If law enforcement does tolerate something like the murder of Gerry Tobin, if it's seen as an isolated event, you run the risk of doing the same as happened in Australia and in other parts of the world where this has been allowed to continue and escalate."
Dink, president of the Outlaws biker gang in Europe and Asia
Dink, of The Outlaws
Most biker gang members consider themselves to be among the one percent of motorcyclists who do not abide by the law.
But Dink insists the bikers are an easy target - and are just misunderstood.
Neil Liversidge used to represent the majority as chairman of the Motorcycle Action Group and received death threats from the Hells Angels after speaking out
"They don't make their threats to you directly," he said.
"They do it through third parties because they know the people who they make them through most of the time won't go to the police, they won't stand up in court and admit that it's happened because these people are petrified."
The problem for the police is that while they warn about the dangers posed by the Hells Angels and The Outlaws their events continue to be given permission by local authorities and, being self-policed by the bikers, generally pass off without incident.
Yet both organisations stand by and support members who are imprisoned. The Outlaws even had a "prison fund" box on the bar of an event Sky News attended.
Whatever the truth the biker gangs know that while for years they were largely ignored by the authorities, now they are under intense scrutiny.

Joplin man dies in motorcycle accident - News-Leader.com - A Joplin man died Tuesday morning when his motorcycle was struck by two vehicles.
According to the Missouri Highway Patrol, Turner J. Roth, 43, was stopped in the northbound lane of Missouri 43 about 5:36 a.m., attempting to make a left turn onto Locust Road seven miles north of Joplin, when he was hit from behind by a 1989 Ford F250 pickup driven by Victor J. Strom, 46, also of Joplin.
The motorcycle came to rest in the southbound lane, where it was then struck by a 2004 Mercury Sable driven by Winnie D. Davis, 43, of Oronogo, the report said.
Strom fled the scene but was later identified, according to the report.
Roth, who was wearing a helmet at the time, was dead at the scene, the report said. No one else was injured.
Davis was wearing a seat belt, according to the report. The report said it was unknown if Strom was wearing a seat belt at the time.

6 motorcycle officers crash in funeral procession - MiamiHerald.com - ORMOND BEACH, Fla. -- Authorities say six motorcycle officers were involved in a crash while escorting the family of one of the country's largest Harley-Davidson dealers to his funeral.
A Florida Highway Patrol spokeswoman says a group of motorcycle officers from various agencies was riding with the funeral party for Bruce Rossmeyer Tuesday morning in Ormond Beach. The spokeswoman says the lead rider slowed down, while the riders near the back of the group didn't, causing a chain-reaction crash.
Authorities say two officers were hurt, but their injuries weren't serious. Damage to the motorcycles was also reported as minor.
Rossmeyer died in a motorcycle crash last week in Wyoming. The 66-year-old had owned more than a dozen Harley-Davidson dealerships, most located in Florida. 

Oak Grove man dead in motorcycle crash - Monroe News Star - In a news release, state police said 52-year-old James Smith was driving his 2002 Honda motorcycle six miles west of Oak Grove on Louisiana 2 around 4 p.m. Troopers said Smith lost control of the vehicle entering a sharp curve, ran off the road and struck a ditch embankment, launching him from the motorcycle.
Initially Smith was taken to the West Carroll Parish Hospital with serious injuries. He was being transported to St. Francis Medical Center in Monroe when his condition worsened, according to the release. He was then taken to a Delhi hospital, where he died.
Troopers said Smith was not wearing a motorcycle helmet at the time of the crash and alcohol use is suspected to be a factor, pending toxicology tests.
In 2009, state police have investigated 25 fatal crashes resulting in 28 deaths in northeastern Louisiana.

Motorcycle accident claims life - The Original Irregular - Forty-seven-year-old Carl Chadbourne from Strong lost his life in a fatal motorcycle crash about two miles from his home early on morning of July 20, Stephen McCausland, director of communications for the Maine Department of Public Safety said in a press release.

Man 'critical' following motorcycle accident - Idaho Mountain Express and Guide - A well-known Blaine County man remained in critical condition at a Boise hospital this week following a single-vehicle motorcycle accident Friday evening on state Highway 75 north of Hailey.
The Blaine County Sheriff's Office identified the victim as Gregory Cordovano, a 63-year-old resident of the Deer Creek Road area in mid-valley.
The sheriff's office reported that Cordovano was injured shortly before 10 p.m. near the intersection of Deer Creek Road and Highway 75. He was found lying unconscious in the middle of the highway while traffic was stopped in both directions.
"At this time it's unknown what caused Cordovano to lose control of his motorcycle," said sheriff's Lt. Jay Davis.
Cordovano was initially taken by Wood River Fire and Rescue ambulance to St. Luke's Wood River Medical Center and later transferred by emergency helicopter to Saint Alphonsus Regional Medical Center in Boise.
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Wood River Chief Bart Lassman said, "The patient suffered a closed head injury," which can lead to swelling of the brain.
Lassman said evidence at the scene suggested that Cordovano was wearing a helmet.
"According to the patient report, the patient's wife on the scene stated that the patient was wearing a helmet, but that it broke off," Lassman said.

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