Jul 30 2008
Sons of Anarchy
Here we go again! Another bullshit show about the dark side of the motorcycle community. I got a real bad feeling about this one. Just when the image of the biker community is beginning to turn around after all those really dumb b-grade movies that came out in the 60s and 70s along comes a show concentrating on the criminal elements of some motorcycle clubs.
It should be good for a few laughs for those of us who live the biker lifestyle. But it is also going to make for some uncomfortable conversations with our friends and co-workers who don’t. I’m sure it will be more exciting than a show about Toys for Tots and other charity runs we all participate in. It will not show the sacrifice of those of us who have stood flag lines at the funerals of our fallen heroes over the past few years. And I know most people will forget all the good deeds performed by bikers and our clubs. They will think we are all a bunch of hard drinking, gun running thugs.
The thing to remember is it is just a tv show. It has to be better than the clowns on OCC. As long as there is a lot of bikes and riding it should be interesting.
Oh well, there isn’t much any of us can do now, anyway. I know all of us who are patch holders will be asked a bunch of dumb questions over the next few months. But then outsiders have been asking dumb questions for years. Keep them guessing. Maybe they’ll pay a little more attention, hang up their cellphones and get out of our way.
“Maybe they’ll pay a little more attention, hang up their cellphones and get out of our way.”
Good luck with that, Brother!