How Nuanced Is This Law?

"Joseph Nee, 18, a senior at Marshfield High School whose father heads the main Boston police union, pleaded innocent to conspiracy to commit mass murder and promotion of anarchy. He was ordered held without bail."

Does this mean that an individual residing in the state of Massachusetts cannot speak, publicly, in support of anarchy?  Does it mean pamphlets or other materials may not be freely distributed by individuals who promote anarchy?  Or is this only some kind of add on law, which can only be part of a package deal?  You can’t get this, unless you did that, too.

I’m just wondering.

“Police union boss’s son arrested in alleged Massachusetts high school plot"

Posted by on 10/19 at 04:26 PM

  1. Hehehehe ... Promotion of Anarchy - I read that same line, in that same article yesterday, and I immediately thought of You, Mr. Venlet. 

    Posted by  on  10/20  at  05:55 AM

  2. I put a post on this here, and also found, I think, the relevant law.

    Posted by Andy Stedman  on  10/20  at  02:28 PM

  3. Andy, thanks for linking to that.  I was too lazy to google it up.

    Those “...other unlawful means...” will get you every time.

    I think Chapter 264: Section 11 requires a more accurate title.

    Posted by  on  10/20  at  03:40 PM

  4. What do you want to bet this is a legacy of Sacco and Vanzetti, who killed the paymaster and his guard in Braintree, Mass?


    CHAPTER 264. CRIMES AGAINST GOVERNMENTS

    Chapter 264: Section 11 Promotion of anarchy; prohibition

    Section 11. Whoever by speech or by exhibition, distribution or promulgation of any written or printed document, paper or pictorial representation advocates, advises, counsels or incites assault upon any public official, or the killing of any person

    Posted by gary  on  10/20  at  04:43 PM

  5. I think he is wholly ignorant of the subject of anarchy, beyond the misguided belief, which is in actuality simply ignorance, and held by the majority of individuals, that Anarchy is a bunch of crazed assholes running around, willy nilly, with machine guns and molotov cocktails wreaking havoc.

    authorities uncovered what they said was evidence of a plan to carry out an attack on the sixth anniversary of the Columbine shootings.

    he knew how to make a Napalm-like explosive. A search of the woods near Kerns’ home found evidence that an explosive had been detonated there.

    part of a group of four students who called themselves NBK, for Natural Born Killers, after the movie about a couple who go on a killing spree.

    Serpent, you, advertantly, edited out the most important portion of the statement in bold, above, which I had previously written.  Venlet.

    Posted by  on  10/21  at  06:22 AM

  6. In this instance I was making the statement myself and I did not imply (other than maybe as an inside joke between you and I alone) I was quoting from any source (individual).

    But can you see how people come to certain conclusions about Anarchy?

    If I was an Anarchist I would think I would want to set the record straight.

    Assuming there is an error in the general perception of Anarchy to begin with?

    Posted by  on  10/22  at  12:38 PM

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