Georgia has stretched its RICO law into repression of "Cop City" protesters.

When the federal RICO law was first adopted, and used against the Mafia (which was its stated purpose), I read about it and concluded it created a danger of repression because its criteria were too lax. They were not designed to carefully allow prosecution only of organized crime gangs, while protecting other activities such as protest campaigns.

When a criminal law carries long sentences and can be stretched to cover protest campaigns, it will be used against protest campaigns -- in other words, for repression. That is now happening. The danger of the RICO laws is real.

A just society needs to punish extortion and protect protests. How will we fix RICO laws to draw a line carefully between them?