Labels:book | reckoner | sky | tree OCR: For forty years after the passage of the Hobbs Act of 1748 not single reported decision suggested that the pursuit of social moral, or political goals through pressure tactics including lawbreaking in the form of trespass, obstt ruction. mass picketing. and incidental scuffling. con- stitutes federal criminal extortion. The isolated and aber rant decision in Northeast Center Inc. Mc Monagle. 868 F.2d 1342 [3d Cir.) cert denied, 493 U.S 901 (1989) cannot have singlehandcdly Icvolution- ized American jurisprudence Civil disobedience and social or political pressure tactics are American as apple pie, and characterizing ideological movenents extortionate simply becausc the use of traditional methods would move this country precisely n the dircction totalitarian oppres- sior so recently abandon ...
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