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Re: Internet blamed for pipe bombs
At 08:30 AM 7/28/96 -0700, Lucky Green wrote:
>At 5:36 7/28/96, E. ALLEN SMITH wrote:
>
>>> Across the country, latest figures from the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol,
>>> Tobacco and Firearms show a 20 percent jump in pipe bomb incidents
>>> between 1990 and 1994.
>>
>>[...]
>>
>>> "We've been incredibly busy," said sheriff's bomb technician Judd
>>> Holiday. "As crime in other categories is dropping, this is going up."
>
>The friendly Anarchist's Bookstore in San Francisco sells several books on
>building bombs. No Internet connection required. I would like offer another
>possible explanation for the increase in pipe bombings. The People are
>getting frustrated and a pipe bomb can be very useful device releasing
>one's frustration.
The local PBS station had a program on bomb detection and manufacture. It
included a section with someone from the BATF explaining how Pipebombs work
and included slow motion video. (It might have been an episode of NOVA. I
came in in the middle.) It even included information about how nails and
screws would be included for extra schrapnel. (Maybe this is part of a plot
to remove funding from PBS once and for all...)
The media and government types who are blaming the Internet for pipebombs do
not get out enough. I have seen good working descriptions in books since I
was a small child. (Of course, I actually read books as a child. And not
just the pablum they expect kids to read nowadays.) Of course, since when
have government and media pronouncements have had anything to do with the
real world and/or truth...
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