[TheForge] Re: Nitric acid

[Michael H. Murphy]

In the early 70's I was stationed at Ft. Huachuca, AZ, the home of the Army
Intelligence school(I've heard the comments about oxymorons, so spare me).
Anyway, one of the books on sale at the Intel School's bookstore was "The
Anarchist Cookbook", a very comprehensive study of improvised weapons,
explosives, drugs, and other elements of the counterculture.  Homeland
Security would kark their drawers today.

You can security, or you can have freedom; the question is how much of one
are you willing to give up to have the other?

Murf

> -----Original Message-----
> From: theforge-bounces at mailman.qth.net [mailto:theforge-
> bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Mike Spencer
> Sent: Monday, July 19, 2004 2:09 PM
> To: theforge at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: [TheForge] Re: Nitric acid
> 
> 
> Andy quoth:
> z
> > I suspect this is some more 9/11 backlash.  It's very easy
> > to make things that go boom with it.  Gun cotton, while not>
> > explosive in itself, becomes so when confined.  A few large
> > bales of cotton soaked in nitric would make a goodly amount
> > of boom.
> 
> [RANT MODE ON]
> 
> Really irritates me.  You can make nitroglycerine in yr back yard,
> too.  No self-respecting terrorist would mess around with hazardous
> chemicals when he could buy or steal modern explosives.  I suppose
> that, oh, say, one in ten depressed teenage wannabe-Matrix-Dude loner
> geeks who tried it might succeed and one in seven of those might
> survive the process.
> 
> Any day now, you'll need a munitions license to own a beat up
> honky-tonk piano lest you pry off the celluloid key covers, shred them
> up and bomb your least-favorite authority figure.
> 
> Feh.
> 
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