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