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To: El Sordo
"And RICO only targets organized crime."

And because there was a slight misapplication of RICO laws to protest groups destroying property, this is going to lead to protesters being held indefinitely without trial.

91 posted on 06/11/2002 9:55:17 AM PDT by elfman2
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To: elfman2
"Slight" hardly even begins to encompass the abuses justified under RICO.

If you step back an admire history you may notice that any government action or power that a person can justify because it is directed at a group or offense that that person despises will eventually fall into the hands of that persons rivals. At which time the power is directed towards him.

There will be Democrats in the White House again eventually. Any action that we condone toward homegrown Islamic terrorists WILL eventually be directed at disfavored American citizens such as gun owners, churchgoers, homeschoolers, etc.

Never let a government have any power that you are not comfortable with your worst enemy having.

As someone else posted some weeks ago:

Just know this: There are people in this country that would willingly surrender liberty in order to impose their sensibilities on others. Some day the "other side" will be in power and they'll lament the day that liberty was surrendered.

97 posted on 06/11/2002 10:07:42 AM PDT by El Sordo
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