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Originally Posted by Kevin
Being a member of something and being an agent for something are two different things. If you're a member of Columbia House, you get your tapes in the mail on the regular. If you're a member of XYZ, you get a magazine and requests to give money. I can't imagine simple membership is enough to mean you can commit a crime which someone else, the organization, will be held liable.
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Most would agree that a record club is not the same thing as a member-operated fraternity. Generally, the trend in the law has been to relax the stricter, traditional criminal liability requirements as they apply to corporations. This statute is a good example of that trend.
As a concept, I cannot separate a fraternal society/organization from its members. Such organizations simply do not exist without them. Whereas a commercial enterprise that is just selling records can - it is just calls its customers "members." Costco does the same thing. A real fraternity can never do this.