RE: MEME: Leaderless Resistance

From: Harvey Newstrom (mail@HarveyNewstrom.com)
Date: Sat Mar 15 2003 - 18:20:24 MST

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    Michael Wiik wrote,
    > I think it's unfortunate that the term (in the article) is bonded to
    > 'violence and mayhem'. I have been thinking recently of how to
    > distribute legal responsibility and/or provide plausible
    > deniability to
    > network-coordinated protest groups, as in, for example,
    > protest signs of
    > single alphabet characters spelling out obscene/incendiary
    > (o/i) slogans
    > that, if held by individuals, would result in their quick
    > arrest. (It'd
    > be cumbersome to carry around an alphabet of signs, I was
    > thinking some
    > sort of electronic ink or large low-res LCD screens).

    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.

    --
    Harvey Newstrom, CISSP, IAM, GSEC
    <www.HarveyNewstrom.com>
    


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