🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <336d3d83.4878628@news.gmu.edu> jatkinso@ANTISPAMgmu.edu (John M Atkinson) writes:
>Thus Spake russotto@wanda.vf.pond.com (Matthew T. Russotto):
>
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>%}Something a little more obviously a long-term policy.  
>%
>%RICO.  The War on Drugs. 
>
>I'm not familliar with conspiracy-nut right-wing bullshit.  What's RICO??
>
RAcketeering-Influenced Corrupt Organizations Act.  
Legislation loosely defined enough to arguably
cover everything from the MAfia families it was 
aimed at to right-to-life groups to the Clinton 
White House.  Introduced asset forfeiture to American 
jurisprudence, weakened certain legal protections.  
War on Drugs jurisprudence has drastically widened the 
scope of asset forfeiture.  NO conviction is needed,
as it is technically not a "criminal" penalty.  You 
have to go through a legal process of proving your
innocence _and_ the innocence of your property
before it is restored.  

>%}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 whole key is in how the "fanatics" are "taken down."  After
all, this country was founded on the right to be a fanatic, or 
the right to be a money-grubbing get-rich-quick tobacco farmer.
--Bragg