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Brian4Liberty
07-23-2013, 02:25 PM
Interesting article...


RICO: The real way to hold the IRS accountable

If you are looking for a political-judicial solution, such as congress, impeachment, or a special prosecutor to hold accountable the unlawful acts coming out of the Obama administration, beginning with the Internal Revenue Service’s abuse and targeting of conservatives, Tea Party groups, and Christians, you are looking in the wrong place. What the IRS did tilted President Barack Obama’s re-election in his favor.
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The bottom line is this. You can’t get justice within the political system in America anymore because the politicians own it. What ultimately stopped the mafia? The Racketeer Influence and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO). What can stop the Obama administration, starting with holding corruption at the IRS accountable? RICO.
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Aside from the occasional PR-savvy fall-guy resignations the federal justice system has been dead for decades.

This is why RICO — the Racketeer Influence and Corrupt Organizations Act is the solution for Americans to use to see some long overdue justice in Washington. RICO provides a peaceful way to hold corruption accountable.

Successful cases against organized crime have been built around RICO, which was enacted in 1970 to target the mafia. What is needed is to use RICO to specifically hold corrupt politicians and federal officials accountable.

RICO has already held corrupt politicians like former mayor of Detroit Kwame Kilpatrick, and his childhood friend Bobby Ferguson, accountable. Under the RICO statute, they were convicted on March 11, 2013 of using Kilpatrick’s office to run a criminal organization to extort bribes in exchange for city contracts. It can be done.

According to 18 USC § 1961, crimes under RICO include everything from extortion, obstruction of justice, obstruction of a criminal investigation, and witness tampering, to kidnapping, gambling, arson, robbery, bribery, extortion, dealing in obscene matter and financial institution fraud. RICO also permits a private individual harmed by the actions of an enterprise to file a civil suit, and if successful, to collect treble damages (damages in triple the amount of actual/compensatory damages).

In the U.S. the act of engaging in criminal activity as a structured group is referred to as “racketeering.” In short, RICO requires at least two acts of racketeering activity, establishing a pattern which occurred within ten years after the commission of a prior act of racketeering activity. It’s clear based on the number of conservatives and Tea Party groups that were targeted by the IRS that a pattern exists. It’s also clear from the testimony before Congress and in the Inspector General report that a number of officials were involved who were following orders from above. The evidence of a pattern and conspiracy already has been established. It’s time to use it.
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Americans who have been targeted by the IRS or deprived of their rights by other government agencies should consider filing civil RICO suit under 42 U.S.C. Section 1983 – Civil Remedy for Deprivation of Rights and RICO: Civil Remedies for Conspiracies to Deprive Rights. Civil RICO does not rely on the politicized criminal justice system to work. This is especially critical considering those politics appear to have corrupted justice within AG Holder’s own department.

This American University Law Review report called, Using the Master’s Tools: Fighting Persistent Police Misconduct with Civil RICO, by Steven P. Ragland, could serve as a blueprint. This case shows how civil RICO was successfully used to root out corrupt policemen in the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) and can be applied to corrupt officials at the IRS and other agencies where corruption exists. Substitute the bad cops with the individual corrupt government workers, LAPD with the government agency in question and off you go.

Remember, the beauty of RICO is it can begin at the local and state level, and be brought as a civil RICO action first that doesn’t require the federal government to participate. It “provides for extended criminal penalties and a civil cause of action for acts performed as part of an ongoing criminal organization.” That means state and local lawyers, sheriffs, attorney generals, and prosecutors can bypass the corrupted Federal justice system. From there, as these civil RICO suits evolve and new potential criminal information is brought to light through the discovery process, these suits can merge and potentially become criminal actions that can be brought before a grand jury and spread to D.C. But victims of IRS targeting can and should start throwing down the gauntlet now.

Read more:
http://dailycaller.com/2013/07/23/rico-the-real-way-to-hold-the-irs-accountable/

ZENemy
07-23-2013, 03:08 PM
Nothing will blow them a way like a true full on tax strike.



They get there power FROM us, lets stop consenting and stop complaining.

jbauer
07-23-2013, 03:27 PM
Accountant was just in. They have a client getting audited. The client is a gas station owning of Indian decent. The statement from the IRS agent: all these Indians are the same. They all skim off the top to pad their pockets. We know their game.

I'm not one to accuse of racial profiling but I'm pretty sure that is exactly what they're doing. Hopefully, when they go to court the accountant will bring up said comments.

Pericles
07-23-2013, 03:29 PM
Unfortunately it does depend on the "justice" system to work. If the IRS is the defendant, you can be sure the case is going to be tried in a federal court.

ZENemy
07-23-2013, 03:38 PM
It goes

People > Government

We CREATED the government, why would we be FORCED to pay the salary of an entity that does the opposite of what it claims? I dont care that "its been like this forever" its time to RECOGNIZE who we are and the REAL pecking order here.


We are on top, WE fund them, at this point with what our gov is doing we have a DUTY to cut these freaks off. These are OUR EMPLOYEES, in my mind and I'm sure many others, they are FIRED.

Occam's Banana
07-23-2013, 03:41 PM
The bottom line is this. You can’t get justice within the political system in America anymore because the politicians own it. What ultimately stopped the mafia? The Racketeer Influence and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO). What can stop the Obama administration, starting with holding corruption at the IRS accountable? RICO.
Yeah, right. Good luck with that. :rolleyes: (Are people really this naive?)

This makes no sense whatsoever. Given that prosecutors are either politicians or political appointees, just how is the hoped-for application of RICO in this situation NOT an attempt to "get justice within the political system" ... ???

Pericles
07-23-2013, 03:42 PM
It goes

People > Government

We CREATED the government, why would we be FORCED to pay the salary of an entity that does the opposite of what it claims? I dont care that "its been like this forever" its time to RECOGNIZE who we are and the REAL pecking order here.


We are on top, WE fund them, at this point with what our gov is doing we have a DUTY to cut these freaks off. These are OUR EMPLOYEES, in my mind and I'm sure many others, they are FIRED.

Stuff like the Whiskey Rebellion used to keep the government in line because of the fear of the next one.

Brian4Liberty
07-23-2013, 03:46 PM
Yeah, right. Good luck with that. :rolleyes: (Are people really this naive?)

This makes no sense whatsoever. Given that prosecutors are either politicians or political appointees, just how is the hoped-for application of RICO in this situation NOT an attempt to "get justice within the political system" ... ???

That is an obvious problem with the idea. But the author also points out that civilian use of RICO has been used in the past to go after corrupt government personnel. Who knows unless someone tries it?

Brian4Liberty
07-23-2013, 03:49 PM
Unfortunately it does depend on the "justice" system to work. If the IRS is the defendant, you can be sure the case is going to be tried in a federal court.

The author writes that it can be filed at local and State level.


Remember, the beauty of RICO is it can begin at the local and state level, and be brought as a civil RICO action first that doesn’t require the federal government to participate.