{"id":46716,"date":"2022-03-05T01:00:32","date_gmt":"2022-03-05T06:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=46716"},"modified":"2022-03-04T09:00:37","modified_gmt":"2022-03-04T14:00:37","slug":"qotd-bike-gangs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2022\/03\/05\/qotd-bike-gangs\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Bike gangs"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; padding: 0px 15px 10px 0px\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-48672\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png 400w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-50x50.png 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>The &#8220;Liberal Party of Canada&#8221; isn&#8217;t the catchiest name for a Quebec biker gang. On the other hand, it&#8217;s no more clunkily uncool than, say, the Rock Machine or any of the province&#8217;s other biker gangs. The Liberal party is certainly a machine and it&#8217;s proving harder to crack than most rocks, and it&#8217;s essentially engaged in the same activities as the other biker gangs: the Grits launder money; they enforce a ruthless code of <em>omert\u00e0<\/em> when fainthearted minions threaten to squeal; they threaten to whack their enemies; they keep enough cash on hand in small bills of non-sequential serial numbers to be able to deliver suitcases with a couple hundred grand hither and yon; and they sluice just enough of the folding stuff around law enforcement agencies to be assured of co-operation. The Mounties&#8217; Musical Ride received $3 million from the Adscam funds, but, alas, the RCMP paperwork relating to this generous subsidy has been, in keeping with time-honoured Liberal book-keeping practices, &#8220;inadvertently lost.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mark Steyn, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.westernstandard.ca\/website\/index.cfm?page=article&#038;article_id=801\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;Exit strategy&#8221;, <em>Western Standard<\/em><\/a>, 2005-06-15<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The &#8220;Liberal Party of Canada&#8221; isn&#8217;t the catchiest name for a Quebec biker gang. On the other hand, it&#8217;s no more clunkily uncool than, say, the Rock Machine or any of the province&#8217;s other biker gangs. The Liberal party is certainly a machine and it&#8217;s proving harder to crack than most rocks, and it&#8217;s essentially [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,84,53,41],"tags":[363,908,112,113,567],"class_list":["post-46716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancon","category-government","category-politics","category-quotations","tag-corruption","tag-liberalparty","tag-organizedcrime","tag-quebec","tag-rcmp"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-c9u","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46716"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72103,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46716\/revisions\/72103"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}