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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