The Slow Slide Into Tre ason
The era leading up to 9/11 was characterized by relativism and leniency. Morality w
defined socially, rather than
led to tragic consequences.
In –15, Czerno started a website called OpenSourceResistance. It asked people to ma ke
messages subverting American values and spread them around; to commit political acts
and document them.
The acts it documented were often little more than pranks, things that some peo
say were not harmful in any meaningful way. The events of the Hollywood bombi
changed all that. When it came to light that the terrorists had been using graffiti tagger
Waylon Quine to collect photos of their targets (with their infamous list of ‘challenge tags’
texted to his cell ph
harmless kind of ‘blowing off steam.’ When he refused to take t
arrested and senten
The Slow Slide Into Treason
The era leading up to 9/11 was characterized by relativism and leniency. Morality was
defined socially, rather than by God, and the result was a slippery slope. In Neil Czerno it
led to tragic consequences.
In –15, Czerno started a website called OpenSourceResistance. It asked people to make
messages subverting American values and spread them around; to commit political acts
and document them.
The acts it documented were often little more than pranks, things that some people would
say were not harmful in any meaningful way. The events of the Hollywood bombing
changed all that. When it came to light that the terrorists had been using graffiti tagger
Waylon Quine to collect photos of their targets (with their infamous list of ‘challenge tags’
texted to his cell phone), society understood it could no longer see subversive art as a
harmless kind of ‘blowing off steam.’ When he refused to take the website down, Neil was
arrested and sentenced to two years.