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On Mon, 05 May 1997 14:50:38 GMT, jatkinso@ANTISPAMgmu.edu (John M
Atkinson) wrote:

>Thus Spake russotto@wanda.vf.pond.com (Matthew T. Russotto):
>
>
>%Racketeering Influenced and Corrupt Organizations act.  A neat little
>%act where if the government asserts that an organization is
>%'racketeering influenced', they can seize it and all assets derived
>%from it BEFORE your trial.  There's also the variant known as civil
>%RICO, where they go and seize your assets but don't bother to try you
>%-- and you have to sue (paying your lawyer is your problem, and
>%there's also high bond requirements) to get them back.
>
>Oh, yeah.  The law under which they nail Mob dons.  Big deal.

You mean the BLACK "Mob dons" who happen to drive nice cars through
the wrong parts of Louisiana?

Must be right-wing propaganda... after all, I saw it on that
mouthpiece of the Militia of Montana, "60 Minutes".

>
>%The question isn't whether I'm offering to start one, it's whether or
>%not such a massacre is just cause for starting one.
>
>OK, no.  I don't believe one (or even several) incidents of troops getting out
>of hand justifies armed revolt.  And if you look at the writings of the time
>(Thomas Paine, especially) the Boston Massacre is almost never mentioned-the
>causes for rebellion can be more accurately traced to a long-term British policy
>of denying the colonists the inherent human right to self-determination.  

Do you believe ANY degree of violence by government against citizens
justifies revolt?

Or do you just believe that like the samurai, they have an unlimited
right to "test their swords" on us?

>
>%One who hasn't even heard of RICO, yet is willing to characterize it
>%as 'conspiracy-nut right wing bullshit' has a lot of nerve calling others
>%"ignorant jackasses".
>
>My statement was not that RICO is the above-mentioned bullshit, but that I was
>not always familliar with the buzzwords thrown around the conspiracy-theorist
>community.

The only bullshit is your evasion above.  You didn't know what RICO
was and you even admitted it in this post.

>
>%"Extremism in defense of liberty is no vice, and moderation in pursuit
>%of justice is no virtue." 
>
>I can't recall who said that.  Was it Barry "Nuke North Vietnam" Goldwater or
>the cross-dressing FBI chief who though Martin Luther King was communist?

Speaking of which, what level of abuse committed by J. Edgar Hoover do
you think would have been appropriate?

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