From: Black Unicorn <unicorn@schloss.li>
Date: Thu, 7 Nov 1996 11:42:00 -0800 (PST)
To: attila@primenet.com
Subject: Re: Group order for "Secret Power" ... (San Francisco Bay Area only)
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On Thu, 7 Nov 1996 attila@primenet.com wrote:

> In <v03007800aea4b053298a@[207.167.93.63]>, on 11/05/96 
>    at 12:53 AM, "Timothy C. May" <tcmay@got.net> said:
> 
> -.At 1:14 PM -0800 11/4/96, Ernest Hua wrote:
> -.>I'm looking for 19 other people interested in "Secret Power" (Craig
> -.>Potton Publishers has indicated that there is a discount for 20 or
> -.>more copies).  If you are in the San Francisco Bay Area, please
> -.>contact me by phone or E-Mail.
> 
> -.Just wondering...doesn't such a call for a group purchase of such a
> -.dangerous book constitute a RICO (Racketeer-Influenced and Crypto
> -.Organizations Act) violation?
> 
> -.--Tim May
> 
>         I trust your RICO (Racketeer-Influenced and "Crypto" 
>     Organizations Act) is tongue in cheek?   The original title was
>     "Corrupt" not "Crypto," though I am sure our friendly 'rules for
>     them and rules for us' racketeering influenced corrupt organization
>     for a government could define it whatever it to suit their
>     purpose....
> 
>         as to the suggestion/question --how would you contstruct the
>     group purchase of a book to involve RICO?   "racketeering" is 
>     defined as a criminal association whose purpose is to intimidate 
>     others and to deny them theor pursuit of the American dream... 
>     (over-simplified).

See my outline some time ago on the RICO statute and related laws.

I'll dig it up and repost it if there is enough interest, or write another
summary.

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