Police officers and state lawmakers are questioning two projects led by Ricardo R. Dominguez, an associate professor of visual art at the University of California San Diego who specializes in electronic civil disobedience, according to The San Diego Union-Tribune. The police are investigating the legality of a virtual sit-in of the UC president’s Web site that Mr. Dominguez organized last week through a computer program he created. Others, including three state legislators, are questioning a project Mr. Dominguez started to help illegal immigrants locate water and U.S. border-patrol lookouts.
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Sigue la lucha.
“…specializes in electronic civil disobedience, …”I hope the Professor, following in the august footsteps of Roger Williams, Henry Thoreau, and Martin Luther King, accepts the consequences of civil disobedience?
There’s something wrong with helping people survive by locating water? They’re going to try to cross in any event… and I have to classify disclosing where agents are as freedom of speech/press; if you respond that this (or disclosing the locations of water) is hindering action against illegal immigration, someone who speaks against governmental propaganda on the war on some drugs hinders that war, but that doesn’t mean that such speech should be illegal!In regard to the comment above on “civil disobedience”, I don’t seem to recall Dr. King not fighting in court – he just didn’t use violent means. I don’t know whether the “virtual sit-in” that this guy organized counts as violence or not – it depends, to me, on whether the functioning of the site in question was disrupted.
What is a virtual sit-in? Does that mean the bodies are not physically present? How is that different, legally, from a petition? Isn’t the right to petition a constitutionally protetced right? Amd I dense or are they?
I presume that what he calls a “virtual sit-in” is really what the rest of the civilized world calls a “Denial of Service Attack”.
I’m not certain that I understand his methods or what crime he has committed but his motives and the likely outcome of saving lives seem to me to be completely defensible as purely humanitarian!
This isn’t a huge correction, but the 3 “state legislators” that the Chronicle refers to are actually US Congressmen, all Republicans from San Diego County.