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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
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.
Barack Obama and the Strategy of Manufactured Crisis
I'm having problems finding the thread for it on FR search.
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,
I know of one antidote to the Cloward/Piven stategy. Armed revolution led by the right-wing.
bttt
God bless Glenn Beck for keeping this on the front burner, and attempting to awaken America to “their” game plan...
According to the Free Trader/Global Competition crowd, they will settle for lower-paid "service jobs" or go on the Dole. Of course, with lower pay, they won't be able to buy much. However, they can alsways go into debt to maintain the facade of a Middle Class existence - until the credit runs out or get to Critical Overload. Oh well, "you have to break a few eggs to make an omelet."