🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <336d3d83.4878628@news.gmu.edu>,
John M Atkinson <jatkinso@ANTISPAMgmu.edu> wrote:
}Thus Spake russotto@wanda.vf.pond.com (Matthew T. Russotto):
}
}
}%}Something a little more obviously a long-term policy.  
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}%RICO.  The War on Drugs. 

}I'm not familliar with conspiracy-nut right-wing bullshit.  What's RICO??

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.

}%}Any one who thinks taking down a handful of fanatics is just cause
}%}for revolt has mental problems. 
}%
}%I wonder if General Gage said that about the Boston Massacre.
}
}Are you offering to begin an insurrection?  Save the local cops the trouble, and
}shoot yourself in the head.

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.

}Ignorant jackasses who don't know Roman history from their Victoria's Secret
}catalogues are the reason people like me (generally conservative to moderate,
}depending on issue) are a little queasy about the whole pro-gun, pro-militia
}lobby.

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".
-- 
Matthew T. Russotto                                russotto@pond.com
"Extremism in defense of liberty is no vice, and moderation in pursuit
of justice is no virtue."