naive, am I?
Just got the following in my inbox:
(Links and images added by me.)The comment page on blogger.com is broken right now, which is just as well because I'd like this posted anonymously, if you would:
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Your review of The Anarchist Cookbook is, to put it nicely, naive.Sam Konkin (of the MLL and Agorist Institute) reviewed it some time ago in "New Libertarian Notes", and revealed that:
The author is really Edward Luttwak, a CIA consultant better known as the author of Coup d'Etat.
All of the book's recipes for making explosives, drugs, and so forth deliberately omit crucial steps. Try to follow them and you can very easily kill yourself in a dozen stupid ways, including blowing up your house, generating poison gas, or producing impure drugs.
(Anyone with a serious interest in making these things would do much better to take a few chemistry classes (Quantitative Analysis especially) at any decent university -- and pay close attention to the precautions that should be used in handling dangerous chemicals.)
Most of them also use chemicals that are on government watch lists. A chemical supply house will happily sell them to you -- but the police will be waiting outside your garage by the time you've cooked up your first batch.If you just want to have fun blowing things up, it is much simpler and better just to do it the approved way and get a pyrotechnics license. As for drugs -- if you must have them, be creative and find some way to get a prescription. Don't assume that an amateur chemist -- including yourself -- knows what he's doing.
Coup d'Etat, incidentally, is not to be trusted either. Both books were written as traps for fools.
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One of my comrades in the movement, so to speak, had this to say:
As a chemistry and chemical engineering double major in college, I was approached by several people to teach them how to make LSD. I have also been approached about how to make meth.
I think the reason that such information is hard to come by is that most people like myself (for instance, those with whom I work) -- who know, or who could easily find/figure it out -- have no interest in such things.
I had no trouble making bombs in my youth. No license required. The fact is, I wouldn't have wanted to make bombs any bigger than the ones I made.
As to your chemical engineer pal, that credential alone blows his cover.
Will it be feasible in a few decades for a jr high science student to construct a nuclear weapon for the science fair?
I can't believe there's not a site (or sites) already where you can find these things out on the web. Perhaps one day we'll even see a blog on the subject with a tag line similar to the following:
"samTheBombMaker is an amateur experimental chemist with no formal education in the subject. He is a house husband, a faculty spouse, a dilettante, and a layabout. Once upon a time, he made a fair living as a web developer. If you accuse him of being descended from entrenched Establishment Paulings, he will deny it!"
Of course there probably are sites with this content (for chrissakes there's already multiple sites for how to make peanut butter and jelly sandwhiches!) but as your other poster points to, I don't know about them because I have no interest in how to make a bomb. It doesn't seem like I'll have to wait all that long anyway before some government entity, or a disgruntled (disgruntled by aforesaid government entity, most likely) party will blow me up anyway, and we still won't be any closer to dealing with any of the core realities...
but that's for another time.
Context is everything.
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