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Wednesday, 22 December 2021
[New post] INTERVIEW WITH AUTHOR JEFF BURNS|AUTHOR INTERVIEW
hjbookblog posted: " It is my pleasure to host author Jeff Burns on my blog today. His book Patriot Gangster is available for purchase. What made you pen down Patriot Gangster? Jeff: My unique experience as one of the most respected outlaw motorcycle club members "
Jeff: My unique experience as one of the most respected outlaw motorcycle club members in America during my time in the motorcycle club life, combined with my professional experience working undercover in law enforcement and being trained by and working with the same undercover agents who investigate outlaw motorcycle clubs gave me a look behind the curtain, and what I came to understand after 22 years in the life, being falsely labelled an organized crime member despite having no criminal record, and watching my friends being repeatedly framed and murdered, and assassination attempts against myself by that corrupt element of law enforcement is that America needs to know this story because our Constitution is being attacked, our freedom threatened, innocent people are being framed and murdered, and the outlaw motorcycle club culture is on the verge of extinction, and it is being perpetrated by a criminal gang of undercover law enforcement known as "The Ratsnakes." I was morally obligated by unique experience and dedication to defending our country and the Constitution to write my story, because I could not go to my grave knowing that I could totally disprove the narrative on outlaw motorcycle clubs being criminal organizations, and at the same time prove that the law enforcement that investigates the clubs are the real criminal enterprise, because my silence would protect them and allow them to continue their victimization of good Americans and attack on our Constitution.
At what age did you join the motorcycle club?
Jeff: While the membership process has gotten easier over the years, in the late 1990's when I started hanging around outlaw motorcycle clubs, I was still a teenager, you had to be at least 21 years old to prospect or become a member of all the major clubs because you had to be able to legally enter bars and nightclubs, and the membership process for all the major 1% clubs was a very long and difficult process that could take years. My process followed the traditional route and began with me being a hang-around, essentially just a friend of the club who may or may not step up and go process someday, then I was a prospect where my job was to learn about the club, its history, how it operated, and to prove my loyalty through my participation, finally you make member and each club has different rules for how you make member, for example some clubs require a 100% approval vote from the chapter the man is prospecting for, while other clubs require a 100% approval vote from the entire club. I believe I was 23 or 24 when I first made member.
Why and when did you part ways?
Jeff: You do anything from the time you are a teenager until you are in you 40's, and it changes. I saw it in my professional career and I saw it with the club, and what I came to understand is that we watered down the criteria for our members dispatched with important elements and traditions of the culture, to the point we were no longer operating as an outlaw motorcycle club, the code we were all supposed to be committed to living by had become nothing more than a bunch of good ideas, there was no brotherhood, I was constantly being targeted by corrupt federal law enforcement officers who had go so far as to try to frame and assassinate myself and several other prominent leaders of the American motorcycle profiling movement, I just got tired of men who were supposed to be my brothers and have my back no matter what, stabbing me in the back any chance they could get, I felt like I had wasted my entire adult life to that point on a lie, and I quit the club to recapture my life, my identity, and my passion.
Tell us a little about The Outlaw Motorcycle club?
Jeff: There are several prominent outlaw motorcycle clubs in the United States, the most respected of which include the Outsiders, Bandidos, Hells Angels, Sons of Silence, Mongols, Vagos, Pagans, and Warlocks. Contrary to law enforcement fraudulent assertion that we identify as "Outlaw Motorcycle Clubs" because we are committed to a life of crime, the term Outlaw Motorcycle Club actually originated in the 1940's when several motorcycle clubs that had either been refused membership in the American Motorcycle Association (A.M.A.) or had been denied entry into A.M.A. sanctioned races, started holding their own non-sanctioned races, which because of their party environment quickly became more popular that A.M.A. races, angering the A.M.A. who designated these unsanctioned races as "outlaw races" and their clubs outlaw motorcycle club members for failing to adhere to A.M.A. rules, then they kicked all the clubs participating in outlaw races out of the A.M.A., leaving them with no alternative but to continue their unsanctioned races if they wanted to race motorcycles because the A.M.A. had a stranglehold on motorcycle racing in America. As a symbol of protest and solidarity, the "outlaw motorcycle clubs" adopted the moniker with pride, then cut their traditional 1 piece back patches that represented their motorcycle clubs into three pieces so they could be sewed on spread out across the back of the vest, making the outlaw clubs patches much larger and more distinctive than the conservative A.M.A. patches they were forced to wear to participate. A few years later when a member of the A.M.A. was quoted in the media after the Hollister Riot stating that "99% of motorcyclists are God-fearing, law-abiding citizens, and it's the 1% that are hell raisers and outlaws.", once again the outlaw clubs embraced the A.M.A.'s disparaging comments and adopted wearing a 1% diamond patch to show that they were proud to be the 1% of hell raisers and outlaws. The rivalry between outlaw motorcycle clubs and the A.M.A. would continue until 2014, but the reality is the terms outlaw motorcycle club and 1% have absolutely nothing to do with being proud of being committed to living a life of crime or any of the other fraudulent nonsense law enforcement asserts. Hell, common sense tells you law enforcement's narrative is fraudulent, if we were really sophisticated criminal enterprises like they allege, it makes no sense that we would make ourselves easy to identify and put targets on our backs by wearing a club patch, or wear a patch that tells the world we are committed to a life of crime.
Why do you think motorcycle clubs have a bad name?
Jeff: It's simple, in 1965, a California Attorney General used sensationalized stories about motorcycle clubs from law enforcement and the media to terrify and whip the citizens of California into a frenzy about Outlaw Motorcycle Clubs and the threat they allegedly posed as a political ploy to get himself re-elected. He issued what would become known as the "Lynch Report" which contained numerous false allegations about outlaw motorcycle clubs that were easily disprovable, and he used the media to spread stories all over the country about the danger outlaw motorcycle clubs posed as a mafia on two wheels, and even though the report was exposed as fraudulent, Lynch was re-elected, the law enforcement officers who had supported Lynch's message on outlaw motorcycle clubs and contributed to his report were assigned to specialized outlaw motorcycle club task forces, while other followed Lynch's model and used the outlaw motorcycle club member to obtain their own political offices. A few years later those same corrupt law enforcement officers stated the International Outlaw Motorcycle Gang Investigators Conference, now known as the International Outlaw Motorcycle Gang Investigators Association, the propaganda wing used to further law enforcements fraudulent narrative, and this was the birth of the criminal enterprise the corrupt law enforcement who specialize in what they call Outlaw Motorcycle Gang Investigations, and they use to further their careers, garner fame, and enrich themselves with T.V. and media appearances, book deals, and even multi-million dollar movie deals made from their fraudulent tales. It's all about money for them, whether it is money they see in their personal pay checks, or Hollywood money and fame, they have figured out that since outlaw motorcycle clubs have had a policy of almost never speaking to the media, these corrupt law enforcement officers have exploited the motorcycle club communities silence and have been free to espouse their fraudulent narrative unopposed for over 60 years. The motorcycle club culture stayed silent for too long and now that they want to speak and want to stand up for themselves, nobody wants to listen because they think they know what motorcycle clubs are really about.
What do you mean when you say that you were bent on protecting the culture of motorcycle club from the elements of law enforcement?
Jeff: Just that, there are corrupt law enforcement officers who investigate outlaw motorcycle clubs that based on my personal and professional training and experience, I believe have been operating, are operating, and will continue to operate as a criminal enterprise unless somebody stands up for the culture. Like I said, the culture has a policy of never talking to the cops or the media, but now that I am not in the club, I am not bound by motorcycle club cultural rules and protocol, I have the most unique background and perspective of anyone in America on outlaw motorcycle clubs having spent far more time in the clubs and had more intimate relationships with the clubs than any undercover agent who has infiltrated a club, and because I carried a gold badge for 10 years and have the same training and more than the investigators who target the clubs, I am by far the best person to tell the truth about outlaw motorcycle clubs and the law enforcement who investigate them. If I stay silent, then all the men I called brothers and friends, and I watched be coerced into plea agreements for crimes they did not commit, or be convicted at trial based on nothing more than the words of an ATF agent and not any other evidence, I would not be treating those men as brothers, I would not have their backs, and I would be letting them rot in prison by protecting the secrets of some dirty cops, and my loyalty, honour, and integrity is far too important to me, to stay silent. That said, by doing so I have put myself at great personal risk and have received numerous death threats, and threats to be imprisoned from members of law enforcement for publishing my book.
What do you like to do in your free time?
Jeff: I am very active and spend my free time training working dogs, hiking, scuba diving, working out, traveling, and in my retirement I have started a non-profit counterterrorism training organization that provides transitional and PTSD resources to disabled military, law enforcement, and first responders here in the United States, we provide counterterrorism, protective services, intelligence, personal security, firearms, travel security, and survival training to military, law enforcement, first responders, and civilians at our training center in central Washington state, and overseas our mission uses our skillsets and experience to provide anti-terrorism and anti-poaching training to security teams and anti-poaching units in Africa on the font lines in the war on poaching, the illegal wildlife trade, and the Farm Attacks.
Are there any new projects underway?
Jeff: With me there are always new projects. In 2022, I will be spending a couple months in South Africa providing training and making a documentary about poaching, the Illegal Wildlife Trade, how they have become major funding sources for terrorist and organized crime groups, and how we can help before.
In addition, the sequel to my first book, Patriot Gangster: Volume 2, The Enforcer, will be released in March, and the third and final book in the trilogy Patriot Gangster: Volume 3, What It's Really All About, will be out late in 2022, and after that I need to take my wife to Indonesia to do some scuba diving and relax for a little while.
For me, the adventure can't end until I can no longer help protect those who need my knowledge and skills, so my focus is on my non-profit and doing as much good as we can and making the world a safer place.
JEFF "TWITCH" BURNS
Without exception, Jeff "Twitch" Burns is the most authoritative Subject Matter Expert on Outlaw Motorcycle Clubs (OMC's) and Outlaw Motorcycle Gang (OMG) Investigations in the world, and his unique experience and expertise allows him to translate seemingly impenetrable outlaw motorcycle club realities and share insight and perspective at a level far beyond any other expert. When it comes to his life in the outlaw motorcycle club world, Jeff was mentored by notorious Hells Angels enforcer's "Mouldy Marvin" Gilbert and Josh Binder. Jeff spent over twenty-two years as a prominent member of the outlaw motorcycle club world, and was a well-known and respected one-percenter (1%er) in arguably one of the most influential outlaw motorcycle clubs in the U.S. Proving himself to be fiercely loyal to his motorcycle club and the culture, he epitomized the roles of brother, bodyguard, enforcer, and freedom-fighter, and his actions helped shape modern outlaw motorcycle club culture. Unlike any other expert on the subject, Jeff has been involved in numerous closed-door meetings with the highest-ranking leadership in the 1% outlaw motorcycle club world from all the most powerful Outlaw Motorcycle Clubs in the country, as well as been a guest in their clubhouses, homes, and businesses, giving him an unequaled base of knowledge on the subject. Additionally, Jeff helped unify the motorcycle club community on the national level for the purposes of fighting law enforcement harassment and helped pass the first two laws addressing Motorcycle Profiling by law enforcement in the United States (Washington & Maryland). Jeff produced the award-winning guerrilla documentary What It's All About, which chronicles the unification of the Washington state motorcycle clubs and the birth of the American Motorcycle Profiling Movement, and in 2014, he was nominated for induction into the American Motorcycle Hall of Fame in two categories: Leadership and Motorcycle Rights.
Professionally, Jeff is nationally and internationally recognized as an elite counter-terrorism expert and covert operator. He has over twenty-five years of international high-threat protective services and covert operations experience in both the government and private sectors, which includes ten years of law enforcement experience conducting complex undercover operations. Jeff has completed over 8,500 hours of advanced level special operations and law enforcement training, he is board-certified in Dignitary and Executive Protection (CDEP), a board-Certified Master Anti-Terrorism Specialist (CMAS), U.S. Department of State Worldwide Protective Services 2 (WPS2) qualified and holds numerous advanced special operations and firearms instructor certifications. Jeff is now retired and continues to serve as a Counterterrorism and Outlaw Motorcycle Club Subject Matter Expert (SME), Director of the non-profit Burns Group International Counterterrorism Training Center, Technical Advisor to the film, television and gaming industries, Adventure Travel Expedition Leader, and Public Speaker.
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