The New York Times
FERNANDEZ, SERGE F. KOVALESKI and ALAN BLINDERMAY 18, 2015
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“The view of the Bandidos is that Texas is their state,” said Terry Katz, the vice president of the International Association of Outlaw Motorcycle Gang Investigators. “They are the big dogs of Texas, and then this other, smaller club — the Cossacks — comes along in 1969 or so, and they decide that they are not going to bow down.”
The Bandidos take their supremacy so seriously that in El Paso in 2012, five members and associates were arrested on allegations that they attacked bikers belonging to other groups because the Bandidos had not given them permission to wear their “colors,” or group logos. Members who fight in the name of a motorcycle club are often rewarded with patches and pins.
One slogan displayed in the 1990s by Bandidos members caught up in a Nordic turf war with the Hells Angels seemed to sum up the group’s ethos: “God forgives. Bandidos don’t.”
Don Charles Davis, who writes the biker blog “The Aging Rebel,” said the Waco episode was “a challenge to the Bandidos’ pre-eminence” by less established organizations, like the Cossacks.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/19/us/waco-texas-biker-gang-shooting.html?_r=0
