[SAJ]

While you're exactly right, tactically, and while I agree with you that, as RICO is written, these terrorists should be prosecuted under RICO and be doing 30 to life, there's a huge problem here in a larger perspective.

RICO is **so** badly written that it wouldn't be much, if any, of a stretch for some ambitious prosecutor to attempt to bust a VFW lodge whose members were out on a rented bus on some excursion, doubtless having a beer or two, offering a beer or two (naughty, naughty, of course) to the driver.

Twice.

Y'see, that's the only condition for triggering the ''pattern of behavior'' clause in RICO: once, who cares, twice, it's a ''pattern''.

The real problem is that many US Attorneys have attempted, and continue to attempt, to place RICO above the First Amendment right to ''petition for the redress of grievances''.

RICO is a problem, no matter WHO is wielding it in the name of ''justice''.

[RavenATB]

"While you're exactly right, tactically, and while I agree with you that, as RICO is written, these terrorists should be prosecuted under RICO and be doing 30 to life, there's a huge problem here in a larger perspective."

Exactly right. RICO is the law we should also be using against "gang-bangers."