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		valleyer on March 5, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Idaho law criminalizes secretly filming on farms OK. "Thuggery" seems like a strange way to describe that though since there's no violence involved.

cscurmudgeon on March 6, 2014 [–]

I agree. I couldn't think of any word close enough. I was thinking more in terms of the original meaning of "thuggery"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thuggee

A band of organized criminals.

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