Posted on 11/17/2009 6:45:05 PM PST by GeezerConservative
BIMP!
Added to bookmarks.
RICO addresses long-term, not one-shot, criminal activity. Not only must a RICO claim be based upon criminal activity, but the criminal acts must constitute a “pattern” of criminal activity. A single criminal act, short-term criminal conduct, or criminal actions that bear no relationship to each other will not give rise to a RICO claim. The United States Supreme Court has ruled that criminal actions constitute a “pattern” only if they are related and continuous. In order to be “related,” the criminal acts must involve the same victims, have the same methods of commission, involve the same participants, or be related in some other fashion. A pattern may be sufficiently continuous if the criminal actions occurred over a substantial period of time or posed a threat of indefinite duration. The former patterns are referred to as closed-ended patterns; the latter patterns are referred to as open-ended patterns. Accordingly, even if you have been injured by a criminal act, you will not have a RICO claim unless that criminal act is part of a larger pattern of criminal activity.
Can this be applied to our friends to bring them down?
bttt!
May we have his scalp before Christmas, which he doesn’t believe in, anyway.
If and that is a big IF we survive this full on assault against our REPUBLIC. I want to see Laws ciminalizing these people as enemies of the Citizens of the United States.
BTTT
ping and bump!
No
But where we are headed if the elections don't turn this around is a court case by a state seeking to secede.
ACORN founders were inspired by Cloward/Piven and saw themselves as implementors of the strategy, according to their biographies. Cloward/Piven were influenced by Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged. (I posted the citations a couple of months ago and will search for them).
“Democrat plan for success in the mid-term elections is to win by destroying political opposition”
Ah, you assume the Liberals will not find a crisis to justify suspending the 2010 elections. Either that or they will give amnesty to the 12 - 20 million illegals in exchange for their votes.
Ping
I know how to ping Rush and Mark, but never learned how to ping Sean or Neal... if anybody knows, please help.
Dennis Miller, too, if you can.
There’s a ton of stuff on FR on Cloward/Piven and lots of links. Example: http://sweetness-light.com/archive/cloward-piven-acorn-and-aig-protests.
0 is on a course to bring this country to its knees -Serously!
Barack Obama and the Strategy of Manufactured Crisis
I'm having problems finding the thread for it on FR search.
Andy Stern of SEIU is marshalling the union thuggery to impliment suppression of opposition tot he fascist policies of this affirmative action bastard’s reich. The strategy now being applied is to so disable the Amewrican eceonomy and so shred the employment through ‘small businesses’ as to make unionized industries the strongfer survivors while ending the dollar and bringing in a world ciurrency. When you go to a hospital and are ‘tended’ only by SEIU folks, it will finally occur to folks that the we the people Republic has ended. The new money in the wallet will not quite bring it home to the average citizen. The number of families dependent upon the government for survival is growing exponentially ... by design, by design.
And just for fun and futility I sent another email to my wonderful Senator about this very subject:
Senator Isakson,
I have read your press release praising the passage of the Worker, Homeownership and Business Assistance Act of 2009. I noted that your press release did not mention that this ‘victory’ was attached to legislation that also extends unemployment benefits and is awash with the typical Washington exemptions and anachronistic gerrymandering such as the Railroad Unemployment Insurance Act and the First-time Homebuyer Credit for District of Columbia. Though I noted the joy of your fellow realtors, I was saddened to see a unanimous vote in the Senate. Once more the government supposedly by the people and for the people is using the tax codes to decide who the winners are and who the losers are.
You, Sir, either actively or passively, are contributing to the Cloward-Piven strategy that is destroying the greatest Republic in the history of the world. I am ashamed to call you my Senator. Is it really so vital to the supposedly conservative leadership in Washington to feel like they are part of the process? Even when that process is destroying our country?
The President of the United States is seizing powers that rival his comrade in Venezuela, our economy is on the brink of ushering in the next dark ages and our Senators are busy distributing more money. Truly disgusting. Enjoy your power while it lasts.
Ask yourself one question. Are your day to day actions more like those of our founding fathers … or the Politburo?
Sincerely,
this is exactly whats happening. for all you people that think were getting out of this depression you havent seen anyhting yet we are headed to all out economic armegeddon. if anyone wants info whats going on feel free to send me a message but folks we are in big big trouble and its coming soon.
George Soros made billions crashing the British Pound, and will make more billions crashing the dollar via his oval office puppet with Stern pulling the fool's strings.
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