Mar 30 2009
Bikie War.
An Australian Bikie gang member was bludgeoned to death at Sydney Airport last week. Rival gang members travelling on different planes both approaching Sydney called for reinforcements from their mobile phones before the planes had even landed. One man was then set upon by 80 bikies armed with steel bars and sticks and beaten to his death in a terminal full of families and other terrified travellers. Suspects have since been arrested, as fears continue to grow that a full-scale bikie war is now festering. These Fears have intensified as the brother of the man killed at Sydney airport was shot in a drive by style shooting outside his home on Sunday night, he is now under armed guard in hospital. Police and Politicians are calling for new laws to be introduced to help curb the movement of these gangs.
Bikie gangs have been around for decades and although these groups are drawn together with a common love of big fat Harleys and a yearning for male comradeship these gangs have abused their freedom for way too long. This attack at Sydney airport highlights bikies disregard for the law, the viciousness of the attack is a worrying indicator to the type of deeply violent characters that inhabit these groups. I would like to believe there are lots of good law abiding bikers out there who enjoy a Sunday ride with their mates and who would rather shake hands than settle and argument with their fist, whose reputation is being damaged by a rotten few, but I don’t. Those who may consider themselves separate from the events in Sydney who continue to wear club colours and advertise the bikie ethic are just including themselves in this world of evil.
Bikie gangs can exercise such power in numbers, their status creates a climate of fear, something they then ride on to monopolise the drug market. This power is what is dangerous.
I think grown men who join gangs that wear matching outfits and condone killing and drug dealing are lame. To become a bikie member one must endure years of service and even belittlement before they are accepted. If a grown man needs the influence and reputation of a bikie gang to enhance is sense of importance he needs to go and ask his mother to hold him and breast feed him a little longer, as he is obviously lacking in self esteem. I suppose many gang members maybe trying to replace a family that they never had, but the delusional moral code the bikie culture fosters is poisonous.
Hopefully the new legal initiative to disempower these groups will see their assets seized and random raids carried out regularly, if the authorities aren’t bribed first.
