From: stewarts@ix.netcom.com (Bill Stewart)
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 95 01:29:41 PDT
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Anti-Electronic Racketeering Act of 1995 (fwd)
Message-ID: <199507170827.BAA12413@ix6.ix.netcom.com>
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At 01:59 PM 7/16/95 +0100, Andrew Spring wrote:
>RICO question:  i thought that the idea of RICO is to confiscate assets of
>racketeers that are derived from criminal activities.  PGP and remailer
>software is distributed free.  so would RICO seizures even apply (yes I
>know this doesnt' always stop the FBI)?

You _were_ using that software on a _computer_ weren't you?  Guess it's 
one of your racketeer's tools, so we'll have to take it for ourselves, er, um,
for evidence and protection of national security....
#                                Thanks;  Bill
# Bill Stewart, Freelance Information Architect, stewarts@ix.netcom.com