[14864] in Cypherpunks
Re: CYBERSPACE IS BY NATURE C
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jim choate)
Wed Jun 8 09:03:45 1994
From: Jim choate <ravage@bga.com>
To: bmorris@netcom.com (Bob MorrisG)
Date: Wed, 8 Jun 1994 07:56:55 -0500 (CDT)
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <199406080627.XAA02185@netcom.com> from "Bob MorrisG" at Jun 7, 94 11:27:56 pm
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> To: cypherpunks@toad.com
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> RR> sex with minors, the act itself has to be _physical_! The crime cannot
> RR> discussing it. What's the FBI going to do? Jail people for _talking_ a
> RR> murder, or jail _murderers_?
>
> Uh, I think they can, and do, jail for discussing a crime. It's called
> conspiracy, and the crime does *not have to have been committed for
> conspirators to be jailed. It happened here in L.A. recently. Some
> skinheads were jailed for conspiracy to bomb an synagogue, however the
> synagogue had not actually been bombed. They went to prison.
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> * RM 1.4 B0037 *
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>
For a group to comit conspiracy they have to actually do something other than
just talk about it. For example, you and I are discussing robbing a bank over
lunch, nothing illegal about that. However(!), the instant you say "lets use
my car" or "I have a gun we can use" then you have committed conspiracy.
It is my understanding that conspiracy is a felony even if the crime is a
misdemeanor...
