The Aging Rebel Kindle Edition

This book is the third one written by this author, Donald Charles Davis, or as we know him, The Aging Rebel. Rebel has his own site and follows the Motorcycle Outlaw lifestyle, this book is a compilation of stories about that lifestyle and the people who live it. It is a great read, it is a series of stories, some related, others not. The incidents that Rebel relates are well researched by him and written from the perspective of the bikers involved. This an important fact, to date all stories about our lifestyle, (yes I am a motorcycle outlaw, a full patch in an outlaw club) have been written either by snitches looking to cash in on an outragous story, a law enforcement type who has "infiltrated" a club and is looking for a big payday selling his story of outlandish heroics and hoping for a movie deal, or an investigative journalist who in actuality just rewrites the police reports he gathers thru the Freedom of Information act and presents it as his story. Rebel is one of us and tells our side of the story, with humor, sorrow, anger and passion. He tells you about rides, crimes and investigations, and death. He will let you pull back the cover and have a peek at how we actually live, and sometimes die. If you read this book you will find that the police and federal agents are not the good guys in white hats as portrayed in all the other books. They will lie without a thought to the consequence of that lie, they will imprison people for nothing for months, close to years, illegally seize their belongings, trash their houses and bully their families all in an effort to make them plead quilty to something they have not done.We are not saints, and Rebel will tell you that, but we are not the scourge of civilization we have been made out to be. We are people with jobs and families and hopes and dreams. Too often we are pawns in some Government scheme to increase it's budget, or to get some agent a promotion. And too often good men die unneccesarily as a result.Read this book and you will be there when Derek Hale is gunned down in broad daylight in front of witnesses, in spite of the fact that he had commited no crime nor was any warrant issued for him. You will be there when James Hicks is gunned down in front of his wife so that the cops could seize "indicia" from him, "indicia" is articles of clothing or documents that prove he was a member of the Pagan's Motorcycle Club, something that was already well known and documented.Read this book and see if you do not get that sinking feeling, that sick knot in your stomach when you see that it is entirely possible that law enforcement framed David Burgess, using the most heinous crime to ruin his life for no other reason than the fact that they didn't much care for him or his family.Read this book and you will learn how much you have to fear from your own government, you will get a feeling for what it is like to ride a big motorcycle and maybe a feeling of why we do it.Watch Sons of Anarchy for some mindless entertainment, Read this book for some well documented education.

The Aging Rebel is the nom de plume of Donald Davis, a man of numerous connections with a world most of us don't know, wouldn't know how to find, and once we found it, would flee at the first opportunity.As I've written in my few reviews of so-called "biker books", they primarily come from a couple of sources: police or their confidential informants (see  Jay Dobyns, "No Angel"  and  Alex Caines, "Befriend and Betray" ); Journalist's who pretend to have "inside knowledge" on bikers, but mostly end up quoting law enforcement press releases, and finally aging biker's biographies, the best of which, in my humble opinion is  Sonny Barger's Hell's Angel.  Barger makes no apologies and, pretty much, lays out his life and legal indiscretions with a refreshing honesty. I can't testify personally to the accuracy of every printed word, but read the book and decide for yourself. I was impressed with Barger's plain spoken and painfully honest description of his life.I have had only the most fleeting of relationships with members of 1% Motorcycle Clubs (a term I prefer to the more emotionally tinged "outlaw" designation.) But they all share a "type" if you will: a dedication to living life on their own terms. This used to be the norm in America and it's a sign of how far this country has fallen into a gray, obedient, nanny state culture, that we find bikers to be an exotic breed.I have been a fan of Donald Davis for a while, reading his all too infrequent posts on his website, also named "The Aging Rebel." Donald has cultivated a number of apparently genuine sources in 1% clubs, something notoriously difficult to do, as well as being willing to put in the footwork to obtain and read court documents, engage in discussion with the Agents and Prosecutors making the allegations, and presents a very different view than you will get in the much maligned mainstream media. An area where I think there exists a true story very different from the published accounts is Operation Black Biscuit, the undercover operation that had ATF Agent Jay Dobyns prospecting for the Skull Valley (I think that's right) HA chapter. For the record, I do not believe that Agent Dobyns was actually patched into the Hells Angels. In numerous interviews, Jay is very careful to put those words in other people's mouths. He's claimed that an Angel (Bad Bob Johnson, I think) draped his personal colors over Jay's shoulders, but there has never been an account written anywhere that there was a 100% club vote or, if there had been, that Jay would've been patched in. To my knowledge there have been four different published accounts that at least alluded to Black Biscuit and you get a very different story in each one. The man who could cut through the BS and write the actual story, would be Donald Davis.Find his website, buy his books (don't miss his other new book,  Out Bad ), and be prepare to have what you thought you about bikers, challenged to the core.

A reprint of Mr Davis blog but none the worse for that. I may not agree with everything he says but that makes no odds our differences are our strength. Good read

Some stories were puzzling to put it mildly, but on the whole must were good, and a few were excellent. So a good purchase.

I only gave 3 stars because the editing was reasonable. This old guy is seriously pissed off because he believed the flag wavers and government propaganda about the American war in Vietnam. Now, he is anti police in a big way. This book is a collection of articles about police brutality directed towards patch-wearing bikers. Really, the bikers have only themselves to blame for focused police attention. Some of their members manufacture and distribute methamphetamine, so they are all tarred with the same brush. If the bikers don't want that kind of attention, they should expel those drug dealing patch wearers, and get involved in legitimate business. I ride 1980's Harley Davidsons, and do all my own maintenance work on them. I also participate in runs and rides that sometimes include patch bikers. They are not very nice people. Actually, they are very much like the police who are their sworn enemies - violent, supportive of each other unconditionally, and with a love of hierarchy and discipline. Oh, and they both love their uniforms. This book is boring, and most of the "stories" are unresolved. Don't waste your money on this one.

Der Autor ist ein Journanlist, Beobachter , hang around" oder 1% Lone Rider, der von den grossen Outlaw MCs respektiert und geduldet wird. (Hatte vor über einem viertel Jahrhundert selbst das Vergnügen mit einem Officer des Biggest Outlaw MC of the World( Name muss ich wohl nicht nennen) liiert gewesen zu sein, war wirklich what is called a man of honor who stood to his word). Will damit sagen, dass ich ein bischen Einblick in die Szene habe. Davis weiss , worüber er schreibt, aber der Stil ist unmöglich, daher ist das Buch schwer lesbar. Hält er sich für einen verhinderten Hemingway? Auf Amazon.com beschweren sich Leser über das gleiche Problem und wünschen sich einen Editor/Lektor. Nun, das Buch ist im Selbstverlag erschienen, da stand wohl keiner zur Verfügung.

Not that good, stories taken out of the headline news with a different spin.