Actually, it's not illegal for someone to encourage you to do illegal things. The precedent is referred to as the ``Brandenburg Test'' (from Brandenburg v. Ohio) and says that "the advocacy of the use of force or law violation" cannot be forbidden or punished unless it is "directed to inciting or producing imminent lawless action and is likely to incite or produce such action." (cite)

Which is not to say that it's not, at the very least, odd that Gateway would sponsor that sort of activity.

Edit: BTW, about all of this stuff, IANAL.