[Cicero]

Exactly right. If someone breaks the law at an abortion clinic, there are plenty of laws to book them on: trespass, for instance. But it's wrong to use RICO only against pro-lifers and politically targeted groups.

This is a huge victory for pro-lifers, and it's also a huge victory for those who believe in strict construction of the Constitution and in individual rights to "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness."

Libertarians should agree. Libertarians should understand that you can't base your own right to personal freedom on the direct violation of someone else's most basic right--the right to life. We all have these rights, and need to protect each other's rights as well as our own.

[Poohbah]

Exactly right. If someone breaks the law at an abortion clinic, there are plenty of laws to book them on: trespass, for instance. But it's wrong to use RICO only against pro-lifers and politically targeted groups.

And I suppose that, when the usual suspects (the anti-war freaks) deliberately impede people's coming and goings in a multistate criminal conspiracy as part of an effort to support Iraq against the US...you'll demand that their "right" to do so be upheld.