On the legal theory being pressed, there is no need to be involved. If you are associated with a group, and somebody else in that group commits a crime, then you are a criminal too.
And that association is assumed by the patches you have sewed on your clothing. This continues to boggle my mind.
If these conspiracy cases go to trial, would a defense attorney dare to venture into challenging that by planting into the jurors the ideas of how such criteria, applied to other groups, is a Pandora's Box?
Even the trolls should be able to understand this.
On the legal theory being pressed, there is no need to be involved. If you are associated with a group, and somebody else in that group commits a crime, then you are a criminal too.
Well said.
Pete ol' buddy, this is about the right of assembly, the right to free association. You have the right to stay as far away as you like from people who look and sometimes are scary. I have the right to associate with them.
You seem to be okay with depriving me of that right. How about if I advocated for forcing you to associate with scary people? I wouldn't because it's wrong, for the same reasons: we all have the right to free association.