From: Harvey Newstrom (mail@HarveyNewstrom.com)
Date: Sun Mar 16 2003 - 13:26:37 MST
Michael Wiik wrote,
> Well, I'll freely admit I'm proposing thinly-disguised deliberatly
> provocative acts since Mr Bokov called for a discussion of tactics of
> leaderless resistance.
Trying to commit illegal acts by exploiting loopholes in the law is a
dangerous practice. Laws often deal with the intent of the perpetrator. If
your intent is to break the law in such a way that you can't be prosecuted,
I think most judges and juries will still find you guilty of breaking the
law. The very act of performing these convoluted schemes indicates that
your intent is not straight forward. The complicated scheme itself becomes
evidence of the intent to commit a crime. The very research into the scheme
and the explanation to others how this makes them untouchable provides a
basis for conspiracy to commit an illegal act.
In your example, it is ludicrous to claim that the person only wanted to
display a blank sign or a sign with a single letter. That does not explain
all the complicated coordination required to get all the demonstrators in
the same place at the same time, and get them arranged in the proper order.
Clearly, no one would go through all this trouble unless the wanted to
participate in the larger message. The intent clearly is toward the larger
message and not toward the individual signs.
-- Harvey Newstrom, CISSP, IAM, GSEC <www.HarveyNewstrom.com>
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