{"id":104190,"date":"2020-08-25T10:00:28","date_gmt":"2020-08-25T14:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=104190"},"modified":"2020-08-25T09:09:40","modified_gmt":"2020-08-25T13:09:40","slug":"invoke-the-rico-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=104190","title":{"rendered":"Should AG Barr Invoke the RICO Act?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-69987\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/DSCN3136-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/DSCN3136-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/DSCN3136-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/DSCN3136-444x333.jpg 444w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/DSCN3136-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Newsmax&#8217;s article linked below suggests that the RICO Act is an appropriate method of getting to the bottom of what it going on in this country now. After watching the unnecessary destruction in Kenosha, WI, over the police shooting a man in the back when he was getting into his car, you have to ask who started the real destruction, and why? Anger over that shooting is justified, because the video shown on the news feeds shows that the cop over-reacted, in my view. Anger, yes. Demonstrations, yes. Destruction? Absolutely not. So who started that.<\/p>\n<p>Newsmax&#8217;s author indicates that applying the RICO Act to the mix might get to the bottom of it, and it&#8217;s time it was applied.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe.\u00a0It may just be time to invoke the RICO against Antifas and their ilk \u2013 Newsmax<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsmax.com\/stevelevy\/williambarr-rioters-rico\/2020\/08\/21\/id\/983289\/\">https:\/\/www.newsmax.com\/stevelevy\/williambarr-rioters-rico\/2020\/08\/21\/id\/983289\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>From the article:<\/p>\n<p>Throughout the Jim Crow era it was common for racist juries in parts of America to look the other way as violent crimes were perpetrated against African-Americans.<\/p>\n<p>At some point the federal government intervened and brought its own charges to ensure that justice was carried out.<\/p>\n<p>Today, socialist and liberal Democratic mayors running our nation&#8217;s cities are engaging in the same type of enabling of violence as did the racists of the past.<\/p>\n<p>Attorney General William Barr&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/opa\/pr\/attorney-general-william-p-barr-announces-launch-operation-legend\">Operation Legend<\/a>\u00a0is a commendable first step in holding the violent perpetrators to account, but it&#8217;s not enough. It&#8217;s time for the AG to apply the federal RICO statute against Antifa-like groups that are analogous to organized crime.<\/p>\n<p>Entities encouraging rioting usually utilize the phone lines and the internet to organize their illegal activities, or engage in activity violating the federal civil rights of their victims, thereby\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/criminal.findlaw.com\/criminal-charges\/rioting-and-inciting-riots.html\">subjecting them to federal jurisdiction<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, three white supremacists who traveled from California to Virginia in August 2017 to incite violence in protests were\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailysignal.com\/2020\/06\/08\/george-floyd-rioters-use-this-federal-law-to-punish-violent-criminals\/\">prosecuted under 18 U.S.C. \u00a7241<\/a>, which prohibits conspiracies to &#8220;injure, oppress, threaten or intimidate any person \u2026 in the exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured to him by the Constitution or laws of the United States.&#8221; &#8211; article<\/p>\n<p>At some point \u2013 possibly not too far off \u2013 something that is bubbling under the surface of scum in the pot is going to erupt in a giant bubble and create massive destruction. The rioting last night in Kenosha, WI, over the local po-po shooting someone in the back because he wouldn\u2019t stop when they demanded that he do so (after trying to break up a fight between two women) was the set cause for this riot, which destroyed an entire used car lot nearby.<\/p>\n<p>The response by the author of the Newsmax article is that, as with the Mob in Chicago and other such offensive animals including the leftwingers in the 1950s, is to invoke the RICO Act, and get to the real people behind the disturbances\u2026 and while you may think you know who \u201cit\u201d is, it\u2019s more than one person. Those disruptors of society never, ever act alone. Gossip is just that &#8211; gossip, not facts.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s logical to ask why it was necessary to allow people who have no apparent agenda other than destruction to destroy the center of a city (pick your favorite) and set things on fire.\u00a0 Why have there been repeats of these actions allowed by local governments?\u00a0 And who is really behind it? (Hint: it isn&#8217;t Captain Queeg.)<\/p>\n<p>Read the article, and if you have anything to add, please do so but please make it constructive.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newsmax&#8217;s article linked below suggests that the RICO Act is an appropriate method of getting to &hellip; <a title=\"Should AG Barr Invoke the RICO Act?\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=104190\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Should AG Barr Invoke the RICO Act?<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":653,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[220,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-floggings-will-continue-until-morale-improves","category-legal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/653"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=104190"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104193,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104190\/revisions\/104193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=104190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=104190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=104190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}