To: cypherpunks@toad.com

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.

* RM 1.4 B0037 *

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...