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	Protection racket - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A protection racket is an extortion scheme whereby a powerful organization, most often a criminal organization or gang, coerces individuals or businesses to pay protection money which allegedly serves to purchase the organization's "protection" services against various external threats.
		When a business refuses to pay for protection, word is put out that they are outside of the local organisation's protection (these organisations often exist in the absence of a trusted police force) and that the business in question is therefore free game for freelance criminals.
		This reputation was a catalyst for rebellious attitudes that arose in the late fifties and early sixties, wherein the new generation of organised crime rejected the age-old tradition of the council.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Protection_racket (444 words)

	GRAIN \| Seedling \| 2004 \| The great protection racket: i
		‘Protection’ in the intellectual property sense means that the owner of a patent, a copyright, a trademark or some other piece of intellectual property has a legal right to exclude others from using or reproducing it.
		Protection of this heritage cannot be achieved by separating out aspects or elements such as songs or science.
		In order to protect traditional knowledge the first requirement is that communities have the right and the power to make the crucial decisions over their livelihood resources and management systems.
	www.grain.org /seedling/seed-04-01-3-en.cfm (3106 words)

	Protection Racket (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		Protection Racket drum cases are designed, developed and tested by gigging drummers, who appreciate exactly what's required from a drum case.
		At the end of a gig, you've no need to muck about with lids, buckles and straps, with Protection Racket you just zip and go, the inside of your car free from scratches, these cases do not slide around.
		The inner lining is a non abrasive fleese which protects and polishes instruments in transit.
	www.electromusic.co.uk /drums/en-gb/dept_234.html (184 words)

	Eye Protection in Racket Sports (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		Ophthalmologists in the UK have for many years been aware of the steady trickle of severe eye injuries in sport, and (especially in racket sports) have been frustrated by the inability to make firm recommendations on eye protection to those patients who should use it.
		It is however unlikely that sufficient protection would be provided for the very high impacts possible in rackets and real tennis.
		The Squash Rackets Association are now able to push forward with eye protection in the knowledge that high-quality eye protectors are becoming more widely available.
	www.site4sight.org.uk /Quality/RGov/Guidelines/Racket.htm (701 words)

	2112 Percussion : Protection Racket Bags Information
		In 1994 the Protection Racket musical instrument cases range was launched in the UK.
		All Protection Racket cases have an integrated three layer construction of Racketex, Propadd & Propile which are doubly stitched.
		Protection Racket cases have no inherent weakening or lessening protection at the corners and edges that take the majority of the knocks.
	www.2112online.com /prinfo.shtml (340 words)

	Reason: Paycheck Protection Racket: Prop 75 is a false hope
		To understand why California's Proposition 75—the "paycheck protection" act that aims to prevent public employee unions from using union dues for political campaigning without positive consent from members—has become this year's most popular initiative among Golden State conservatives and libertarians, all you have to do is watch TV.
		Prop 75 has been dubbed the "paycheck protection" initiative, but its real value is as a paperwork-creation initiative that would make it harder for unions to continue to monopolize the public's political attention.
		Paycheck protection is a concept that has been circulating for years, and it's certainly got an appealing logic.
	www.reason.com /hod/tc110405.shtml (1317 words)

	Protection Racket
		Protection Racket musical instrument cases are designed, developed and road tested by gigging musicians who appreciate exactly what's required from an instrument case.
		At the end of a gig, you've no need to muck about with lids, buckles and straps, with Protection Racket you just zip and go, the inside of your vehicle free from scratches, Protection Racket cases do not slide around.
		One of the best parts about Protection Racket cases is that they will do custom sizes, including extra long bags for longer bass drums, like 24x22 and 22x22.
	www.bigbangdist.com /protection_racket.htm (343 words)

	savethemales.ca - The Zionist Protection Racket
		The "War on Terror" is a protection racket.
		The aggressor is the world financial elite known as the "Crown" based in the City of London.
		They are empowered to protect us from this "terror." Zionists or Americans who carry out their agenda could end up holding the bag if something goes wrong, or as I should say right.
	www.savethemales.ca /000889.html (1039 words)

	Protection Racket
		First, if the state government was really motivated by a concern to protect children, it would not permit Virginians to purchase and order wine directly from Virginia wineries.
		The whole point of constitutional protections is to keep government power limited.
		The straightforward purpose of the Commerce Clause is to protect each and every American from state-government-imposed “protectionism.” Because each state government could legitimately claim that restricting out-of-state imports would enable it in a wide variety of circumstances to gather more tax revenues, the Framers of the Constitution wisely included no such exception.
	www.baconsrebellion.com /Issues/08-12-02/Protection_Racket.htm (720 words)

	Tribes Accused of Iraq Oil Protection Racket
		The state-owned North Oil Company (NOC) alleges that tribes paid to protect pipelines are behind many of the attacks on them around the Kirkuk oil fields.
		Since a contract with a British security firm expired in December, the NOC has been relying on 16 tribes in the Kirkuk area which it has contracted to protect the pipeline network for a monthly fee.
		The tribal forces complement the 1,500 strong Oil Pipeline Protection Force which the government set up earlier this year to guard the main northward route from the Kirkuk fields to the Turkish oil terminal of Ceyhan.
	www.ens-newswire.com /ens/jun2005/2005-06-10-03.asp (749 words)

	Paycheck Protection Racket
		Advocates of the so-called Paycheck Protection movement have drafted several state ballot initiatives, as well as state and congressional legislation, for consideration this year.
		Congress is currently debating two Paycheck Protection bills, and initiatives may be on the ballot in a half-dozen states by the next elections.
		Whether the Paycheck Protection measures win or lose, the GOP figures the AFL-CIO will be so preoccupied with the issue, and so drained of resources fighting it, that it won't be able to have much of an impact on the congressional elections in November.
	www.motherjones.com /news/outfront/1998/05/dreyfuss.html (1289 words)

	The Hindu : Front Page : Pundir murder investigation exposes protection racket
		Investigations into last month's murder of the Indian Railways Construction Company (IRCON) engineer, Sudhir Kumar Pundir, and his brother, Sanjay Pundir, are starting to point towards the existence of a shadowy protection racket, fed by a secret slush fund run by IRCON's local subcontractors to allow work on the strategic Srinagar-Jammu line to proceed unimpeded.
		While police authorities are reluctant to discuss the issue on record, evidence suggests that handouts from the slush funds enabled the recent resumption of work.
		The Awantipora Superintendent of Police, Sheikh Mehmood, refused to confirm or deny that a call had been intercepted, but confirmed that the police were looking at the protection racket issue.
	www.hindu.com /2004/07/13/stories/2004071310120100.htm (682 words)

	Mortgage payment protection insurance and income protection insurance quotes
		This loan protection policy is designed to protect the loan repayments you make to your finance company if you are unable to work due to accident and sickness, or lose your job due to unemployment, with premiums starting at just £2.50 (per £100 of monthly benefit).
		ASU policies protecting mortgage repayments are often called Mortgage Payment Protection Insurance policies or just MPPI for short.
		Some are simply just called payment protection insurance or income protection insurance if they are designed to protect living expenses.
	protectiononline.co.uk /...?siteID=268_268&useDef=1&forms=1111 (931 words)

	TomPaine.com - GOP Protection Racket
		Ordinary people succeed at cutting back on cigarettes or losing weight, and research by the RAND Corporation shows that every dollar spent on drug treatment saves $7 in later social costs.
		They want us to feel helplessly dependent on them for protection, and to open our wallets for safety.
		Law enforcement has been the fastest rising expenditure in most state budgets over the past 20 years, and the spending follows political tracks.
	www.tompaine.com /articles/2006/07/25/gop_protection_racket.php (846 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Business \| The UK's £5bn 'protection racket'
		But it's so worrying consumer watchdogs that it's been called a "protection racket" - and you may well have been the victim.
		It's supposed to protect you in case your circumstances change, you lose your job, or you become ill and unable to meet your repayments.
		Max Flint hosts the Money Programme's Protection Racket Awards on Friday, 7 April 2006 at 1900 BST on BBC2 and asks whether the PPI Industry are listening to the criticism and cleaning up their act.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/business/4886710.stm (935 words)

	The Incumbent-Protection Racket -- In These Times
		Redistricting, the once-a-decade swindle whereby incumbent politicians redraw the lines of their own legislative districts to guarantee themselves safe seats, is just about completed in all 50 states.
		This time around the “incumbent protection” racket was even more crass than usual.
		Even more than campaign-finance inequities, this incumbent-protection racket is responsible for creating uninspiring elections where voters have little choice.
	www.inthesetimes.com /site/main/article/1556 (797 words)

	BTC News » Net Neutrality and the telecom protection racket
		If you’re a criminal organization running a protection racket and you want to stay out of jail, you rely on intimidation and paying off the cops.
		A number of people have written about the effort by the nation’s largest internet providers to create a two-tiered internet, one where web sites pay the providers not to interfere with their content and services, and where the internet providers can block or slow down sites they don’t like or who don’t pay.
		But like any protection racket, the key to defeating it is united action from the victims.
	www.btcnews.com /btcnews/1306 (1429 words)

	Protection from the Protection Racket \| DMI Blog
		The bottom line is that if the Banking Department is determined to make overdraft protection a fact of life for all New York banking consumers, there is still a more humane and fair way to regulate it.
		New Yorkers still have a few days to submit public comments on the introduction of "overdraft protection" but time is of the essence--the comment period ends November 7th.
		All opinions expressed on the DMI Blog website are solely those of their authors, and do not necessarily reflect those of the Drum Major Institute for Public Policy.
	www.dmiblog.com /archives/2005/11/protection_from_the_protection.html (595 words)

	Joel Turtel -- Teacher Licensing - A Protection Racket
		As we will see, it turns out that teacher licensing is a protection racket.
		It might destroy the licensing racket that protects their jobs.
		Once this licensing protection racket was broken, parents would have control over who teaches their children.
	www.newswithviews.com /Turtel/joel18.htm (2109 words)

	Banks: "Protection" Racket?
		Keeley, who insists he had never requested any so-called overdraft protection on his account, says he wishes the bank had simply rejected the transactions.
		Customers with $50 in their accounts and $300 in overdraft protection could be told at an ATM that they have $350 available.
		Are you or your spouse age 50 or over? You deserve great auto insurance.
	www.businessweek.com /magazine/content/05_18/b3931085_mz020.htm (1335 words)

	Ramesh Ponnuru on Death Penalty on National Review Online
		A few anecdotes in which public defenders really had been lax in capital murder cases were extrapolated into a critique of law enforcement in the state.
		At around this time, Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont and Representative William Delahunt of Massachusetts, both Democrats, introduced the "Innocence Protection Act." Supposedly, the bill was going to keep innocents from getting put on death row by, among other things, providing for better legal defenses for accused capital murderers.
		When Leahy ran the Judiciary Committee last year, it issued a report that said that capital resource centers "may legitimately assert a large number of claims" based on a "reversal of existing law." In other words, it's legitimate for tax-funded public defenders to file a "large number of claims" that are precluded by current law.
	www.nationalreview.com /ponnuru/ponnuru200310290831.asp (879 words)

	Cincinnati CityBeat : 12/10/2003 : Protection Racket
		The U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Ohio should investigate officers' CMHA earnings for possible violations of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, according to Arenstein.
		Eric Schneider was scheduled this week to stand trial on 19 felony charges -- 18 counts of theft in office and one count of tampering with records.
		Schneider is accused of purposely charging the city for approximately 60 hours in compensatory time for attending court on arrests made when he was working off-duty.
	www.citybeat.com /2003-12-10/cover.shtml (4375 words)

	WorldNetDaily: The government's protection racket
		The thing about taxes is that they are coercive, not voluntary (despite what the IRS and the scam groups say).
		They are like a protection racket: Shell out and you avoid trouble.
		And this is why people continue to pay, not out of patriotism, but to avoid conflicts with the armed minions of the State.
	www.worldnetdaily.com /news/printer-friendly.asp?ARTICLE_ID=21979 (1015 words)

	BTC News » Net Neutrality and the telecom protection racket (Update 1)
		You build yourself a nice little business, and along comes someone with a broadsword or a baseball bat or a gun, telling you it’d be a shame if something happened to wreck all your hard work.
		UPDATE: One of the complaints net neutrality advocates have made is that institutional press outlets — who would also be affected by the demise of the principle — are paying little attention to the fight over the issue.
		The slightly less obvious one is that politicians who favor the protection racket will note net neutrality’s institutional press debut and begin to realize they can’t fly under the radar forever.
	www.btcnews.com /btcnews/1308 (1338 words)

	Indoor Storm : Protection Racket
		Protection Racket 9x12 Padded Bag for RIMS Mounted Drums
		Protection Racket 12x14 Padded Bag for RIMS Mounted Drums
		Protection Racket 16x18 Padded Floor Tom Drum Bag
	www.indoorstorm.com /store.php?cPath=48_109 (165 words)

	SCIENCE 911: Panama Protection Racket
		Although most ants wouldn't have anything to do with a Thisbe, one species is happy to provide protection because it's worth the payoff -- a special nectar produced by the caterpillar.
		I provide nutrients for my friend, and in return I get water, protection from dryness, protection from bright light and essential nutrients.
		After spending years searching for wild areas in the tropics, DeVries has insights into how these quickly diminishing areas can be protected.
	www.pbs.org /safarchive/4_class/45_pguides/pguide_404/4544_panama.html (1136 words)

	Capitalism Magazine: Jesse Jackson's "Civil" Rights Protection Racket by Paul Craig Roberts
		They have made a much better business out of the protection racket than the old Mafia did.
		The Mafia was hampered by the fact that their shakedowns were seen for what they were.
		This came as a shock to his wife and legitimate children, but it is the least of the reverend's shortcomings.
	www.capmag.com /articlePrint.asp?ID=162 (791 words)

	Reason (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		No one disputes that the First Amendment applies to opinions about who should run the government and what the government should do.
		Yet in the topsy-turvy world of the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act, the closer speech gets to the sort of political expression the Framers clearly meant to protect, the more restricted it is.
		An organization may criticize a politician, so long as the message is timed so that it's not likely to change anyone's vote.
	www.reason.com /sullum/032902.shtml (687 words)

	Financial Sense University ~ "The Petro-Dollar & Protection Racket" by Jim Willie CB 04/06/2005
		We protect their governments, even if they are corrupt.
		The USA provides security and protection of shipping lanes and ocean ports in a grand international contract.
		The racket seems complex but can be described in extremely effective and simple terms.
	www.financialsense.com /fsu/editorials/willie/2005/0406.html (3459 words)

	» Is security software a protection racket? \| Ed Bott’s Microsoft Report \| ZDNet.com
		The subscription-based service - which offers virus protection, a two-way firewall, a backup utility, system optimization, and (eventually) antispyware capabilities - is scheduled to go live in the U.S. in June.
		Microsoft lists virus protection as one of the three "security essentials" in the Windows XP Security Center.
		They can't, it would be to admit their software is so bad you need it!
	blogs.zdnet.com /Bott/?p=4 (873 words)

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