Defacing Websites, "Stealing" Free Papers

[Dennis]

> On LBO-talk, I doubt that anyone would condemn left-wing hackers for
> defacing & otherwise attacking websites operated by right-wingers or
> imperialist governments.  Why, then, scold Brown students of color
> for taking & destroying *free* student papers, *which usually isn't
> even a crime by capitalist standards*?
>
> Yoshie

What if rightwing hackers decided to deface LBO-Talk? Or if rightwing
students pulled down posters and handbills announcing an on-campus speech
by, say, Chomsky or Tim Wise? There's a free lefty student paper here in Ann
Arbor, and I certainly would be upset if local righties rounded up every
copy and set them to flame. Sure, it's not a crime even by "capitalist
standards," but would we see it as such?

DP