Sons of Anarchy

I'm liking the series Sons of Anarchy . It is pretty hard hitting. People get hurt. People do bad things.

The story as I get it is this. A biker gang runs a local town. They have the current top cop in their pocket, but the next one coming up is not willing to be on their payroll. He is straight laced and hates the biker gang. The biker gang makes money by selling guns to city gangs in other areas. These other gangs are out to sell drugs and need the guns to make that happen. The biker gang sells to all sides.

So, you have to make the biker gang look sympathetic so they can fight for their very existence. How do you make a bunch of gun dealing murderous hooligans look like Robin Hoods? Well, you introduce someone even worse in to the mix. One day a bunch of white supremacists show up in town because they are pissed at the gun selling biker gang selling guns to undesirables. Hey, we can all hate white supremacists, right?

Up until the white supremacists came along, everything seemed to revolve around family and money. Now, they all have to deal with someone who believes in something beyond that. They all have to deal with people willing to make sacrifices for a belief in a purpose that they do not understand. Sounds like a microcosm of the whole U. S. and even world dealing with terrorists who want something we cannot let ourselves admit or comprehend because it flys in the face of our own beliefs.

There was an episode where a girl from the outside likes one of the bikers. She starts getting in to the whole biker chick thing, but figures out quickly it is not for her. There is another episode where a FED plays hard ball with some of the guys and tries to play the bikers against their local cop connections and she ends up getting one guy put in jail. Oh, and getting the shit kicked out of herself for her trouble. Recently a primary character was raped by the white supremacists in order to drive the bikers over the edge. She kept it quiet to prevent the destruction of her family, the biker gang.

Henry Rollins plays one of the primary white supremacists. I've listened to his rants for years. Not sure they could have picked someone who is ferther from the real deal. I like Henry. I'm glad he has the work. He is scary and hatable on Sons of Anarchy. Any one can play a good guy.