My experience-
Hindsight is 20/20
Jesus Christ. Is this the plot for the Sons of Anarchy-Dawson's Creek Chapter spin off show?
I'd call BS on the whole story, except that: A. It sounds just like the kind of crap I've heard from a couple of people I met who prospected with a local IO chapter and: B. I actually know one of the people you mention in that story.
I just can't understand why you would associate yourself with them after what you saw just in the first few days.
I'd call BS on the whole story, except that: A. It sounds just like the kind of crap I've heard from a couple of people I met who prospected with a local IO chapter and: B. I actually know one of the people you mention in that story.
I just can't understand why you would associate yourself with them after what you saw just in the first few days.
Not trashing- actual events.
And I have nothing to be glad for there Hero, if they had a spine, it would've been evident long before now. Thanks for playing- enjoy your copy of the home game.
Well theres the problem
I ain't. I'm the guy who still has to look at the keyboard, and types with two fingers. So, that took me forever lol.
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This is not unique to just the LE type clubs. Any new club that doesnt seek out the guidence or mentoring from established MCs goes through drama like a social club. Simply put, they dont know what they're doing.
If a club stands alone, self enforces, and rarely if ever associates with other clubs then they are truly lost in the world.
Traditional MCs at least have a common governance in organizations like the CoC. Doesnt stop the internal social drama but does impact and set some organizational standards. No such checks and balances in any of the LEMC community.
My opinion from seeing dozens of clubs come and go over the decades.
If a club stands alone, self enforces, and rarely if ever associates with other clubs then they are truly lost in the world.
Traditional MCs at least have a common governance in organizations like the CoC. Doesnt stop the internal social drama but does impact and set some organizational standards. No such checks and balances in any of the LEMC community.
My opinion from seeing dozens of clubs come and go over the decades.
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This is not unique to just the LE type clubs. Any new club that doesnt seek out the guidence or mentoring from established MCs goes through drama like a social club. Simply put, they dont know what they're doing.
If a club stands alone, self enforces, and rarely if ever associates with other clubs then they are truly lost in the world.
Traditional MCs at least have a common governance in organizations like the CoC. Doesnt stop the internal social drama but does impact and set some organizational standards. No such checks and balances in any of the LEMC community.
My opinion from seeing dozens of clubs come and go over the decades.
If a club stands alone, self enforces, and rarely if ever associates with other clubs then they are truly lost in the world.
Traditional MCs at least have a common governance in organizations like the CoC. Doesnt stop the internal social drama but does impact and set some organizational standards. No such checks and balances in any of the LEMC community.
My opinion from seeing dozens of clubs come and go over the decades.
This is exactly right. You couldn't have summed it up any better. Your posts are always spot on though so I'm not surprised.
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This is not unique to just the LE type clubs. Any new club that doesnt seek out the guidence or mentoring from established MCs goes through drama like a social club. Simply put, they dont know what they're doing.
If a club stands alone, self enforces, and rarely if ever associates with other clubs then they are truly lost in the world.
Traditional MCs at least have a common governance in organizations like the CoC. Doesnt stop the internal social drama but does impact and set some organizational standards. No such checks and balances in any of the LEMC community.
My opinion from seeing dozens of clubs come and go over the decades.
If a club stands alone, self enforces, and rarely if ever associates with other clubs then they are truly lost in the world.
Traditional MCs at least have a common governance in organizations like the CoC. Doesnt stop the internal social drama but does impact and set some organizational standards. No such checks and balances in any of the LEMC community.
My opinion from seeing dozens of clubs come and go over the decades.
The LEO's get used quite a bit- and I kinda feel bad for the guys. Spend all week policing up stupid (some officers, not so much), only to spend all their free time policing up the special kind of stupid that the IO seems to attract.
I will say that I never hung out with the LEO members in their AO, usually at out of town events- so things could be totally different there. I will say it isn't the LEO's in the general brotherhood that are the problem- most of them are just looking to not be cops for a while- It's the lawyers on the DLA/ They are the ones with the power to pretty much as they please, and it's an appointed position- so they really aren't accountable to anyone.
Case in point- The guy who is now the regional director for the TX/AR/OK/MS area was on the DLA when he decided to run for the position. Who counts the votes? Why, the DLA, of course. there were evidently several recounts and re-votes before he "won" the election- all in all some shady stuff there. Nobody said a damn thing about it. Last I heard he was still holding both positions.
One big ball of fubar right there.
Like I said, lesson learned.
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Doesn't the Killeen IO Chapter have MPs in it? What about "the Private", isn't she an MP? Aren't you an ex-MP?