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OCR: these particular petitioners. Consequently petitioners have failed show eithet the n jury fact necessary establish Article III standing OF the proximate causation necessary estahlish RICO standing RICO saop tor apply social protest activities which lack any mercenary purpose whatsoever. Both the text and the manifest purpose of RICO show tha on gress designed the statute take the profit 1n0 crime. RICO does 1ou simply federalize Or enhance the penaltics for an arbitrary list of crimes designated as "racketeering activities. Rather, RICO targets mercenary criminal ac- tivity as evidenced by the statutory title statement findings definitions. prohibitions, anI Icmedies Petitioners have failed to alleged the predicatc acts necessary for RICO claim. Social protest activities which neither "obt ...