Re: MEME: Leaderless Resistance

From: Michael Wiik (mwiik@messagenet.com)
Date: Sat Mar 15 2003 - 20:27:51 MST

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    Harvey Newstrom wrote:
    > I fail to see any legal grounds for this defense. Conspiracy laws allow for
    > convicting groups of people cooperating to commit a single crime, even if
    > each person does only a minor piece of the whole.

    I dunno, IANAL. You visit various antiwar websites looking for folks to
    come to a rally, register at one you like, get your set of alphabet
    signs and agree to go to a certain spot and hold up letters as
    instructed by some cgi script which is pushing content to your handheld
    browser device. This is a conspiracy?

    Then you learn how you have been horribly used to display (single
    letters of) obscene and incendiary slogans. Well, you won't visit *that*
    website again. Which crime have you committed?

    What about the folks who were holding 'spaces' (blank signs). Bunch of
    people around them may have conspired to hold up obscene/incendiary
    slogans but these folks held up *totally blank signs*.

    Makes we wonder, are death threats directed at foreign leaders of
    countries we are bombing and are about to go to war with a crime? I
    think Saddam is a brutal stalinist dictator who gasses his own people.
    If I have a sign or participate in a network-coordinated sign that
    suggested the world would be a lot better off if Saddam was killed, is
    that a crime?

            -Mike

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