RICO against Corps (open OP/ED)

[The Yosemite Bear]

so given a pattern of feloneous operations in the Mortage/Foreclosure scandals, and in BP's safety cutting measures, why doesn't someone sue them under RICO statues over a systematic and organization wide pattern of illegality? I mean if corperations continue to act like gangsters, why don't we imprison them and confiscate thier holdings like we would actual gangsters?

[weemadando]

Because most people who get convicted in RICO trials don't make million dollar donations to political parties on a regular basis.

[The Yosemite Bear]

they did back in the 1920s....

[weemadando]

Oh, I'm sure they still do now as well, but the one's who get arrested probably don't.

[The Yosemite Bear]

reminds me how much money the pot growers and mexican mafia spent on defeating prop 19....

[[R_H]]

reminds me how much money the pot growers and mexican mafia spent on defeating prop 19....

Really? That was the proposition to legalise, right?

[darthdavid]

reminds me how much money the pot growers and mexican mafia spent on defeating prop 19....

Really? That was the proposition to legalise, right?

Yep. If it was legal the US based growers would get less money selling it and have to pay taxes and the mexican drug carters would be shit out of luck because no one would buy from them any more.

[[R_H]]

reminds me how much money the pot growers and mexican mafia spent on defeating prop 19....

Really? That was the proposition to legalise, right?

Yep. If it was legal the US based growers would get less money selling it and have to pay taxes and the mexican drug carters would be shit out of luck because no one would buy from them any more.

Would the THC content have been regulated as well? Plus then a whole schwack of other regulations and hoops to jump through.

[Elfdart]

More than likely, ADM or one of the other giants would put the small growers out of business while churning out bad produce -just like they have with every other crop.

[darthdavid]

Of course the real advantage to legalization would be that you could just plop some plants down in your vegetable garden, grow them how you want and no one could shay shit about it. Though it would be amusing to see Marlboro Greens or whatever show up on the shelves.

[The Yosemite Bear]

actually the prop 19 law appears to have been written for/by ADM because the footage a non-licenced grower is allowed can only be done with a few hydroponic strains whose patants are owned by.....

at least that was what my botinist/geneticist mom said to me tuesday.