A blast from the past...Hunter Thompson Reverb

On Sep 4, 2015, at 12:57 AM, John Rozean

Waco-Related Re verb of Hunter S. Thompson's “Midnight on The Coast Highway”

Months after Twin Peaks1, I never heard again from John Carroll2, I still had the legacy of the big machine—four hundred pounds of chrome and deep red noise to take out on the back roads of central Texas, 317, 1123, 2268....Moody, Holland, Salado. My first crash had wrecked the bike completely and it took several months to rebuild. After that, I decided to ride it differently: I would stop pushing my luck on curves, always wear a helmet, and try to keep within range of the nearest speed limit.....my insurance policy had been canceled and my driver's license was hanging by a thread.3

[...]So it was always at night, like a werewolf, that I would take the thing out for an honest run through the darkened curves.[...] thinking to only run a few long curves to clear my head, […] but then I would be out there with the sound of my engine in my ears[...]

There was no helmet on those nights, no speed limit, no sound of Sgt. Patrick Swanton's “honking”4 lies,5 and there was CERTAINLY no cooling it down on the curves. It was like the one unlucky drink that shoves a wavering alcoholic off the wagon.

[…] thirty-five, forty-five...not worried about who might be pulling out...Not many of those, a bike, when the speed is right, can get around most things – but not all.[...]

Bent forward, far back on the seat, and a rigid grip on the handlebars as the bikes starts jumping and wavering in the wind. Tail-lights far up ahead coming closer, faster, and suddenly – zaaapppp-- going past and leaning down for a curve[...]

There are not any good runs down 95, north of Bartlet to Temple, too much construction, traffic lights, and cops trying to make their quota on construction zone fines....the choice of back roads gets even backer, and darker....but you keep pushing it....Instant loss of control? A crashing cartwheeling slide and maybe one of those two inch notices in the paper the next day: “Texas Man Dies After Motorcycle Hits Deer” 6.”

[...]

Screw it all the way over, reach your thumb over, feeling so as to raise the headlight beam, the needle leans down on a hundred, and wind burned eyeballs strain to see down the center line, trying to provide a margin for the reflexes.

But with the throttle screwed on there is only the best margin, and no room at all for mistakes. It has to be done right...and that's when the music starts, when you stretch your luck so far that fear becomes exhilaration and vibrates along your arms.[...] The Edge... . There is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over. The others – the living-- are those who pushed their control as far as they felt they could handle it, and then pulled back, or slowed down.

The Waco District Attorney has gone “all-in” on this one, despite the logical conclusion that 170 bikers can not murder 9.....the question is, are we going to push it, feel the exhilaration of freedom, or will we simply back off...and allow a few more miles of road to be paved, between here and an outright police state, where “THEY” are in charge of whether you decide to “push-it” or not. They will decide how you dress, what sort of conveyance you drive (that being two or four wheels, street, cruiser, duel, Japenese, European, etc...), where you may eat lunch, and with whom you may eat lunch. When you eat lunch in the same “general vicinity” of some sort of crime, you will be charges, indicted, and possibly convicted, depending on how much “honking” a police PR does.

I must say; it is time to push it and take back our freedoms before our local police seize it away from us.

Footnotes.

19 “bikers' were shot and killed at a “Twin Peaks” restaurant in Waco, Texas, May 19, 2015

2John Rozean was interview by this Waco kwtx reporter on 5 June 2015. This is not an accusation of oversight, just simply a reference to how the news cycle is finite, and will fade, despite the importance of the issue as it relates to Constitutional freedoms that WILL ultimately dwindle away to fascist rule if this continues.

3The following “re verb” of Hunter S. Thomson's work is positively analogous to the author's life, yet, in the spirit of “GONZO” journalism; the truth lies within the murkiness surrounding the absolutes.

4An Aging Rebel article described Sgt. Swanton's voice in this way.

5The author of the “re verb” , a former Army public affairs specialist, has published several articles in central Texas newspapers (Austin Statesmen, Williams County Sun, Temple Daily Telegram, and the Killeen Daily Herald) critisizing Swanton's unprofessional tactics. Ultimately, one can see by a Google search, that these irresponsible measures have led to speculation and mistrust of the Waco P.D. For some time the author, as an insult to Swanton's poor PR skills, the author continuously sent out release misspelling Swanton's name – a very bad, “boo boo” in military public affairs, which has a goal of releasing truthful, accurate information.

6http://www.kwtx.com/home/headlines/Texas-Man-Dies-After-Motorcycle-Hits-Deer-324124331.html

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