Swedish Fare Dodgers Organize Against Transportation Authorities

An anonymous reader writes "Every transit network has its fare beaters, the riders who view payment as either optional or prohibitively expensive. Many cities, most notably New York, view turnstile-jumpers as a top policing priority, reasoning that scofflaws might graduate to more serious crimes if left alone. But in Stockholm, the offenders seem to have defeated the system. From the article: 'For over a decade, Mr. Tengblad has belonged to a group known as Planka.nu (rough translation: “free-ride.now”), an organization with only two prerequisites for admission: Members must pay a monthly fee of about $15 and, as part of a continuous demonstration against the fare, promise to evade payment every time they ride. If travelers keep their side of the agreement, the group will cover any of the roughly $180 fines that might result. (An unlimited ride pass for 30 days costs about $120.)'"

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Re:In the US the people running the organization

[Anonymous Coward]

Thanks for answering that rhetorical question with a totally irrelevant, unverified opinion. Theft laws have been used against children, and fraud laws have been used against charities, and murder laws have been used against little old ladies, and sexual assault laws have been used against religious leaders. Meanwhile, RICO laws have been used against criminal organisations. What is your point, and how does it support the notion that laws against conspiring to commit a crime, or ordering others to do so, should be abolished?