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- Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1993 13:29:18 -0500 (CST)
- From: THe ADvocate <anon@unix.ville.geo>
- Subject: File 2--Re: Debating the Virus contest - 1 (#5.23)
-
- In CuD #5.23, roy%burnflag.ati.com@HARVUNXW.BITNET(Roy) writes:
-
- > Let's just say I decided to have a bomb making contest. This is
- for
- > the purely scientific purpose of studying how bombs work, and
- allowing
- > people to study different ways to defuse bombs. I am going to
- award
- > some cash to the winner and publish the plans for making the bomb
- in
- > my soon-to-be-released book called "The Little Black Book of Bomb
- > Making Techniques".
-
- This man has obviously never heard of the Anarchists cookbook.
- The poor Mans James Bond or even Army Pub NN-XX Unconventional
- Munitions.
- All available at a bookstore near you:-)
-
- > So, the book gets published and sells lots of copies. Mark
- Ludwig
- > arrives home one day to find that his place of residence has been
- > destroyed by a huge bomb. It just so happens that the type of
- bomb
- > used is the same award winning explosive device as I published in
- my
- > book.
-
- Kinda like the peoples whose homes get blown up by White
- supremacists
- or clinics bombed by anti-abortion fanatics?
-
- > Surely, Mr. Ludwig would not hold me responsible for the
- destruction
- > of his home caused by someone who decided to implement the plans
- I
- > presented purely for "scientific research purposes".
-
- Too date, no case has been carried against a publisher for this
- kind of material. Soldier of fortune magazine was struck in a
- case for libel regarding publishing an ad for Murder for Hire
- services. I am not sure of the status of the case.
-
- > Roy Batchelor / Burn This Flag BBS / San Jose, CA / 408-363-9766
- /
-
- Apparently mr Batchelor is not aware of the first amendment of this
- country. Publishing of ideas, is encouraged, even when they can
- lead to
- harmful activities. After all the founding fathers were
- publishing materials on how to overturn an empire and slaughter
- Government soldiers.
-
- Todays revolutionary is often times tomorrows government leader.
- Look
- at Begin in Israel or Mandela in South Africa. Our own government
- gets plenty cozy with numerous Armed revolutionaries.
-
- If something is a crime, the justice system will cope. And if it
- can't why am I paying taxes? Men like mr Batchelor would like to
- destroy the first amendment on the basis of protecting society.
-
- Drugs are a serious problem. Mnay of them are easily synthesized.
- Would you prohibit publication of books that show how to synthesize
- organic molecules because someone might make some drugs that some
- addict may get hooked on and later burglarize your home looking
- for
- cash?
-
- Solid police work and solid education are the methods of a
- civilized
- society. Not puritanical methods.
-
- THe ADvocate.
-
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