By Jack Fowler
Friday, July 05, 2019
Conservative journalist Tom McArdle has a very worthwhile
piece in the new outfit Issues & Insights analyzing possible legal
responses to ongoing brutal Antifa attacks — such as this week’s hospitalizing
assault on journalist Andy Ngo in Portland, Ore. — using the federal Racketeer
Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act., a.k.a. RICO. Read
Tom’s report here, which includes the following from our colleague, Andy
McCarthy:
“Loosely knit, interstate
enterprises such as Antifa are what RICO was made for,” according to McCarthy.
“They can be investigated as organizations unified by ideology and tactics, all
members can be held responsible for the disparate acts of all the members, and
the harsh state law penalties for violent crimes can be widely applied.”
Writing in National Review
nearly two years ago, McCarthy pointed out that “in terms of confronting Antifa
or any other domestic terrorist organization, we have a more robust array of
state and federal law-enforcement powers than we have ever had. Moreover,
coordination between federal and state law-enforcement and national-security
officers is as good as it has ever been. All that is required to gut Antifa is
the will to do it — the will to say, ‘Regardless of our disparate political
views, we Americans draw the line at violent extortion that eviscerates our
right to speak, assemble, and engage in constitutionally protected political
activity.’”
By the way, Twitchy provides an excellent tweet-by-tweet
rundown of Portland mayor Ted Wheeler’s excuse-mongering as to why the
Antifa thuggery — a regular event in the Rose City — once again occurred
without any intervention from the city’s spectator-cops.
Related: Prosecutors in Multnomah County (where Portland
is located) are seemingly justifying or excusing the use of masks in the
commission of a crime!
Meanwhile, Portland police chief Danielle Outlaw (not
making that up) this week called for an anti-mask law, but at the same time
diminished the need for such a law.
Per The Oregonian:
“A policy that prohibits wearing a
mask to a protest will have police focusing on the wrong issue. Behavior is the
issue, not the mask,” she said. “It could be argued that the mask is an
important symbolic part of a protester’s message. . . . There are many
legitimate reasons people wear ‘masks,’ including political and religious
reasons.”
Kind of like
this?
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