This thought came to me when I decided
to search for The Anarchist's Cookbook to
calm my curiosity of how easy it is for anyone to get a hold of it.
When I searched Google for it, the first page presented me a number
of places where I could purchase the book, along with a full pdf file
of the book. I was quite surprised when I found it
so quickly, and quite
disturbed at that as well.
I am fully against internet censoring to the extent of websites
being shut down (other than that of illegality issues), but I believe
that search engines such as Google, Bing, and Yahoo should take a
step towards assuring that the average internet user cannot obtain
information
like this.
The
problem that I have with The Anarchist's Cookbook
is not the fact that it explains how to make explosives, I think it's
good information for people who know what they are doing, such as
chemists, but I have a problem with the fact that it is written for
the average person, who has had no safety training in handling
chemicals. It explains how to get certain chemicals from off the
shelf products in order to construct bombs, and other such dangerous
weapons, rather than having
to get chemicals from a supplier such as Sigma-Aldrich, who makes it
impossible for the average person to obtain.
If someone really wanted to
hurt someone, they should have to gain the knowledge first before
jumping right to making the explosive from a set out procedure. In
that time planning it out, they could very well change their mind.
An example of this is the Drano Bomb, where kids can make a bomb out
of common household items, which can cause serious damage, as
reported here.
Reports have been made of people loosing fingers while holding the
water bottle, which is an unexpecting object to be a bomb since we see bottles littered all the time.
In the
end, we have to ask ourselves if information like this should be free
to the public, through being written in layman’s terms, rather than
in academic terminology that could only be understood with four years
of post secondary education, along with the understanding and
appreciation of what we are dealing with.
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