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Monday, May 7, 2012

AUSTRALIA - Bikies show their colours in the Cross........

OFF THE WIRE
abc.net.au
Bikies have ridden into Sydney's Kings Cross to protest against laws that bar members of outlaw motorcycle gangs from wearing their colours at some venues in the entertainment district.
With revellers and police watching on, about 20 bikies rode along Darlinghurst Road into the Cross late last night.
Under a new laws, members of 23 bikie gangs are not allowed to wear their colours at 58 different pubs, clubs and restaurants in the Cross.
The New South Wales Premier Barry O'Farrell announced the ban last month as part of a crackdown on bikie-related crime.
A member of the Commancheros, says clubs have been unfairly targeted by the State Government's laws.
"We just want to show our presence, that we are allowed in the Cross, and we just like normal people, we all got family and kids and just come here to have fun, and that's it," he said.
The Brotherhood Christian Motorcycle Club's Greg Hirst says the laws affect many people who have no involvement in criminal activity.
"There has been a lot of hysteria over a number of incidents, which you need the police to react to, the issue is really how they do it," he said.
"And, I think by banning the regalia and so on, what that does is it doesn't actually address the crime or the violence they're trying to deal with. It actually attacks the culture, the way of life of people," he said.
A member of the Kings Cross Bikers says the government's actions targeting bikie gangs have tainted all motorcycle clubs.
"It seems that every crime that's committed at the moment... it's the bikies... and so the public have got this thing in their heads that anyone on a motorbike, if it's big and black, then they're a criminal. But that's not the case," he said.
He says more protest rides are planned over the next few weeks.