[TheForge] Re: Nitric acid/OT

[Jerry Smith]

         I lurk on this group most of the time, but this is going in many 
directions. We all have the capacity to make destructive devices. Some more 
powerful than others.
         If the D.C. Sniper could do that much damage with boot camp 
training, think of what a SF qualified serviceman could do.
         I buy many acids and other chemicals, I just need to sign a form 
when I pick them up, mainly that I have a business and are tax exempt. I 
have not purchased raw nitrates, because I don't use them, but I can buy 
black powder and could easily build a bomb. You don't need a book on these 
things as specialty terrorist items, high school chemistry is all I would 
need, and it's been many decades since I was in high school.

         The choice between freedom and security is simple, they can take 
my freedom away; when they pry my cold dead fingers off of my finishing hammer.


Jerry

At 01:29 AM 7/20/2004, you wrote:
>The whole proposition is silly. Most any of us could wreak terrible 
>damage/morbidity/mortality with materials on hand.
>The basic premise our nation is founded on is that the citizens are 
>competent adults who hold it all in their hands...we seem to have 
>abandoned that view.
>It's easy to fuckthings up, always has been. We can't make it not so and 
>still remain functional..........
>Just as we can't be perfectly secure and have much freedom at all.
>Feh indeed....PF
>
>Mike Spencer wrote:
>
>>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.
>>
>>[RANT MODE  OFF]
>>
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