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To: faithhopecharity

“But there can be antitrust and racketeering and conspiracy considerations when it comes to organizing or directing boycotts.”

You mean to tell me, that Franklin Graham can be charged under RICO for promoting a boycott of Beauty and the Beast?

http://myfox8.com/2017/03/06/franklin-graham-joins-fight-against-beauty-and-the-beast-remake-calls-for-boycott/


17 posted on 03/10/2017 10:49:17 AM PST by Timpanagos1
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To: Timpanagos1

RICO is a bit complicated and usually looks to some previous record of racketeering activities ... so I doubt Franklin can be successfully prosecuted under it (although of course the previous anti-Christian WashDC administration would have LOVED to try, ha! The fact that they did not attempt it speaks to the difficulty of a successful RICO prosecution without a past criminal record. Also, there is a distinction between “merely advocating” a boycott (”free speech defense”) and actually “organizing” or “enforcing” one. I think Franklin can sleep peacefully on this ...smile smile smile. He is forthright like his Dad, I like him.


18 posted on 03/10/2017 12:08:24 PM PST by faithhopecharity ("Politicans are not born, they're excreted." -- Marcus Tillius Cicero)
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