I feel sure I’ve written before about the Feds and their effort to shut down the Mongols Motorcycle Club by…seizing their trademarks. Because, of course, not having a logo will deter members of the Mongols from engaging in criminal activity, and they’d never think of something like adopting a new logo, or doing without. After all, how can you make meth without a snazzy logo?
Oddly, though, I can’t find that post. But by way of Reason‘s “Hit and Run”, I have discovered a couple of updates:
- The Feds first effort to seize the Mongols trademarks failed. Badly.
So not only did the government not get what they were looking for, they have to pay out a quarter million dollars worth of taxpayer’s money
and clean up the garbage. - Typically for the Federal government, if it doesn’t work, do it harder: they’ve filed to seize the trademark again.
In other news, I was considering writing an extended rant about the Statesman and their forthcoming paywall. But now I don’t have to: Lawrence has saved me the trouble, in a post with charts and graphs and words and all that good stuff. I commend it to your attention.