In the course of the search, the investigating officers seized The Anarchist Cookbook. Parr contended that the book and the other articles taken were not properly seized under the warrant issued in and that they did not constitute contraband. The court rejected this claim, noting that the seizure of the book — which contains instructions on growing marijuana, as well as other drugs — was appropriate because it was related to what was being investigated. However, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals said that the judge should have only allowed the jury to see limited, relevant portions of the book, not the entire book.
Law enforcement knows The Anarchist Cookbook well. In fact, the book is so recognizable to them that some cops have even used the title of the book as a generic category for incriminating literature, sort of like how Kleenex the name of a particular product has become kleenex a generic term for a paper tissue. This is how the court described the raid:. When the officers returned with the search warrant, the Secret Service had arrived. As one officer observed the Secret Service searching a garbage bag, he noticed several pieces of wire and clothespins.
He later determined that these were the makings of a trip wire for a bomb. He deals with anarchist cookbooks. He looks at how bombs are built. It seems The Anarchist Cookbook has taken on such mythic status that it has become a generic description for any dangerous literature. So it is fair to predict that cops investigating a crime who come across a suspect in possession of The Anarchist Cookbook will immediately seize the book almost like contraband and endeavor to use it against the suspect.
For suspects prone to cry foul, it does not help that the book is often seized along with guns, drug-manufacturing paraphernalia, and bomb components.
It becomes evidence of the crime. Moreover, authorities who come across The Anarchist Cookbook are almost compelled to act as if the possessor of the book is dangerous. Failure to do so can have professional and personal consequences. Although she was dismissed as a defendant in the case because of official immunity, the very fact of the civil lawsuit was undoubtedly very painful for her.
Some criminals have even referenced The Anarchist Cookbook when committing their crimes. Stephen Michael Long was convicted of the federal crimes of threatening to use a weapon of mass destruction, mailing threatening communications, and transmitting threats by wire. Several months after the anthrax attacks , Long sent threatening letters to addresses around Lafayette, Louisiana.
The envelopes were filled with white baby powder — which looks like anthrax spores — and the letters mentioned al-Qaeda, bombs, The Anarchist Cookbook , and the drug prescribed to people infected with anthrax disease. The government has also tried to use The Anarchist Cookbook at sentencing. This reluctance is displayed when applying the evidentiary rule that requires courts to weigh the probative value of proposed evidence against the possible prejudicial impact on the jury.
Where prosecutors offer a seized copy of The Anarchist Cookbook into evidence, courts have been very careful to follow this rule, considering the possible prejudice of implicating someone in a crime because they own or read books that many find distasteful.
For example, John W. Rogers was convicted in Chicago of possessing an unregistered firearm, based in part on the admission of his copy of The Anarchist Cookbook and his statements that he relied on the instructions in the book when retrofitting the weapon in question.
This evidentiary issue went up on appeal, with the Seventh Circuit writing:. Still, given the weight of evidence against Rogers, and the proper use at trial of the construction plans in this book, plain-error doctrine does not support reversal. Similarly, in Oregon, Randy Ellis was convicted of receiving stolen explosives in Ellis was charged with mere receipt and possession of the stolen explosives. Intent was not an element of the charge; Ellis either knowingly had the explosive devices in his possession or did not.
His possession of The Anarchist Cookbook was simply not relevant to the charge he faced … If the government had prosecuted Ellis under 18 U. However, Ellis was not being prosecuted under 18 U. The care with which courts treat evidentiary issues involving The Anarchist Cookbook extends to state courts. For some civil libertarians, this might not be sufficiently comforting.
Helen A. These reformers, however, have to deal with those unique cases in which The Anarchist Cookbook clearly facilitated a particular crime. Similarly, the autopsy of a murder victim in Michigan indicated she was killed by strangulation. Stephen Adams was ultimately arrested and convicted for the murder, based in part on his copy of The Anarchist Cookbook , in which a paragraph concerning how to strangle a person was underlined.
Courts seem to have it about right these days, recognizing that The Anarchist Cookbook is not just some other book. Like law enforcement and the public, courts display familiarity with this particular work. The Colorado Supreme Court ruled that the warrant could not be enforced, and its reasoning was telling.
Justice Matthew L. Bender, for the majority, wrote:. We agree that, depending on the exact factual circumstances, such a seizure might be necessary and appropriate. However, the substantial chilling effects that could occur if this hypothetical search warrant were executed mean that there might also be circumstances where the police should be entirely precluded from executing the warrant.
Notably, the court chose The Anarchist Cookbook to illustrate the point that law enforcement could legitimately seek customer sales records from bookstores. In January , explosives detonated at two military recruiting offices in Portland, Oregon.
Giese owned a bookstore called the Radical Education Project, and was involved in book exchanges and discussion groups at a local prison. It is doubtful that courts today would permit a prosecution largely based on books stocked in the bookstore owned by one of the defendants, the concerns of civil libertarians notwithstanding. After delving into the strange legal history of The Anarchist Cookbook , I have no problem putting the book into a separate category from almost all others.
This book, it can be said, helps criminals, and is fair game for law enforcement when they come across it. This principle drives Powell's argumentation as he believed that the current political climate and Vietnam war had undermined human values, therefore revolution based upon his perception of human dignity and freedom was what drove him to write the piece.
He ends his introduction by warning of the seriousness that these recipes may have deadly consequences if used improperly. At the time of its publication, one Federal Bureau of Investigation memo described The Anarchist Cookbook as "one of the crudest, low-brow, paranoiac writing efforts ever attempted". Edgar Hoover's associate director respectively. While having concerns about the text, the FBI concluded that it could not be regulated as it was published through mass media.
Advocates of anarchism dispute the association of the book with anarchist political philosophy. The anarchist collective CrimethInc. Much of the publication was copied and made available as text documents online [21] through Usenet and FTP sites hosted in academic institutions in the early s, and has been made available via web browsers from their inception in the mids to the present day.
The name varies slightly from Anarchist Cookbook to Anarchy Cookbook and the topics have expanded vastly in the intervening decades. Many of the articles were attributed to an anonymous author called "The Jolly Roger". In , British businessman Terrance Brown created the now defunct website anarchist-cookbook. Knowledge of the book, or copied online publications of it, increased along with the increase in public access to the Internet throughout the mids.
Newspapers ran stories about how easy the text was to get hold of, and the influence it may have had with terrorists, criminals, and experimental teenagers.
The book was a frequent target for censorship throughout the s. In the film, William Powell explains in depth his thoughts on the book and the consequences it had in his life. A copy of the book can be seen in a scene in the film Con Air. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. For the film, see The Anarchist Cookbook film. See also: American Anarchist. The Observer. Archived from the original on December 19, Archived from the original on January 9, Retrieved February 6, Archived from the original on March 23, Archived from the original on September 10, Edmonton Journal.
December 15, BBC News. Archived from the original on February 3, Classification Board. Australian Government. Thompson, Gabriel February 27, Browsings blog.
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