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You guys are seeing what I have been talking about on this board for quite some time.
I said it during my first year on this board that they will start bringing RICO charges against people. The responses were always the same..*buried heads* or "RICO investigations take years."
Well, the government was willing to move rather quickly ont his one.
And I guarantee you this will not be the last RICO charge we'll see.
Another thing I have been mentioning for years now, is that a lot of people here don't recall what it was like during the Reagan era.
For one most were still in elementary school or diapers, but when the Meese report came out about porn the Reagan administration made some moves which had a trickle down effect across the country.
City governments started to go after adult related businesses using zoning ordinances, it killed most of the adult business in Dallas, there are still a few standing but not nearly as much as there were before this.
There to this day is still no "porn" being sold in Fort Worth, someone opened up one store in Kennedale which is just on the outskirts, but no where directly in the city.
I still remember to this day, going into the adult shop in downtown Fort Worth I had rented a video the previous week, and came back for another. When I arrived home it was censored.
I went back to the video store and the owner sat there and denied ever having any uncensored videos in his store ever. It was like the twilight zone. And the look on his face was of fear, I didn't realise what happened until later and he must have thought I was working Vice under cover or something.
Government has not necessarily unlimited resources, but they can put the hurt on a business by shutting you down for days, or keep you constantly in court paying your attorney and it can get quite expensive.
They won't get you on obscenity necessarily, or you may win, but at what cost?
Your business gets shut down in the process either way if you are not able to adequately cover the cost of the defense.
So while I would have loved to see this guy fight the battle for us, I can understand why he would have given up.
He could have stuck it out for the next couple of years going in and out of jail, and be broke in the end, or get out now and take the money and try to develop a real life for himself instead of being a martyr for us.
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