Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!att!rutgers!mcdchg!ddsw1!zane From: zane@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Sameer Parekh) Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk Subject: Re: Invasion of Privacy in Australia Message-ID: <1991Jan29.040702.14114@ddsw1.MCS.COM> Date: 29 Jan 91 04:07:02 GMT References: <6532@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> Organization: ddsw1.MCS.COM Contributor, Wheeling, IL Lines: 20 In article peter@taronga.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) writes: >In article <6532@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM>, ginn@neon-tetra.Eng.Sun.COM (Michael Ginn) writes: >> One of the most far-reaching of recent laws is the one that confiscates assets >> `SUSPECTED' of being the proceeds of crime or even associated with crime. It >> can deny the accused access to his money for legal representation, and in some >> cases reverse the onus of proof. > >Sounds like RICO... the U.S. government isn't that far "behind" Australia here. > >The rest of the stuff sounds bloody awful. I've been holding onto my Oz >citizenship partly as a hedge against erosion of liberties. Sounds like >I've been living in a fool's paradise. What exactly IS RICO. When I first encountered the rights-activism scene, I had no idea what it was. . now I have some idea. BUT, is it onelaw, a set of laws, does someone have the complete text on-line? (as paper?, if you USMail me, I may type it up.) -- zane@ddsw1.MCS.COM