nobody@REPLAY.COM (Anonymous) said: A> Sten wrote:
They (as in, the government) has used the RICO laws against Operation Rescue, an anti-abortion/pro-life (pick your term) group for protesting/picketing abortion clinics and doctors who perform abortions.
A> And for successfully encouraging the murder of doctors. Sorry, but the RICO case had nothing to do with any of the murders. And if you're gonna go after OR&company for encouraging the murder of doctors, I hope you're also going after certain rappers for encouraging the murder of police.
If they had prosecuted under statutes which applied to everyone, I wouldn't have had a problem, but they are going after OR and similar organizations for using tactics similar to those used by civil rights protesters in the 60s.
A> Who were systematically arrested, beaten, teargassed, A> wiretapped, and even occasionally shot at. I *know*--I got firehosed, A> beaten, arrested, and wiretapped for what I did. That's why I'm a A> Cypherpunk now. OR has received far better treatment than the civil A> rights protesters ever did--or did I miss the news items reporting A> that Terry Randall and Ralph Reed had been assassinated, and that A> their lieutenants had been bumped off in black-bag jobs, and that A> their colleagues were chained down to chairs *in court*? And the treatment you received then was wrong. Does that make admittedly less violent treatment of OR&company right? At risk of your calling it a 'nursery rhyme', or something similarly trivializing, two wrongs don't make a right. -- #include <disclaimer.h> /* Sten Drescher */ To get my PGP public key, send me email with your public key and Subject: PGP key exchange Key fingerprint = 90 5F 1D FD A6 7C 84 5E A9 D3 90 16 B2 44 C4 F3