RE: Bombs [was RE: Guns]

Joshua Clingenpeel (Josh.Clingenpeel@wwu.edu)
Fri, 28 May 1999 13:24:59 -0700

Thought you guys might appreciate this, given the subject of making bombs. Got this off the POLITECH mailing list. Check it out.



Remember that Sen. Feinstein has been at this for years:

http://cgi.pathfinder.com/time/digital/daily/0,2822,592,00.html http://cgi.pathfinder.com/time/digital/daily/0,2822,14079,00.html

-Declan

>Date: Thu, 20 May 1999 00:33:54 -0400 (EDT)
>From: Thomas Edwards <thomas@thesync.com>
>To: declan@well.com
>Subject: no bomb making info for the Net, thanks to "trenchcoat hysteria"
>
>
>Declan,
>
> Dang, after caving on gun control, this little freedom of speech
>thing is nothing big.
>
>Senate blasts bomb-making info on Net
>By Courtney Macavinta
>Staff Writer, CNET News.com
>May 19, 1999, 1 p.m. PT
>URL: http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,36785,00.html
>
>Distributing bomb-making information on the Net would be illegal in most
>cases under Senate legislation being debated in the wake of the killings
>at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, and a rash of subsequent
>threats at campuses around the country.

>Date: Thu, 20 May 1999 18:09:37 -0400 (EDT)
>From: Thomas Edwards <thomas@thesync.com>
>To: declan@well.com
>Subject: Bomb teaching amendment language
>
>Declan,
>
> Interestingly enough, you can't read about the bomb info amendment
>on Thomas, but you have to sneak over to the GPO and read it in the
>Congressional Record. Sec. 402 is part of Amendment S.AMDT.353 to S.254,
>agreed to by an 85-13 vote
>(http://www.senate.gov/legislative/vote1061/vote_00123.html). BTW,
>S.AMDT.351 (sponsored by Sen Allard) also added to S.254 routes around the
>first Amendment by OKing religious observances of school violence
>memorials.
>
>Here is the language of the bomb teaching amendment:
>
>SEC. 402. CRIMINAL PROHIBITION ON DISTRIBUTION OF CERTAIN
> INFORMATION RELATING TO EXPLOSIVES, DESTRUCTIVE
> DEVICES, AND WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION.
>
> (a) Unlawful Conduct.--Section 842 of title 18, United
> States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following:
> ``(p) Distribution of Information Relating to Explosives,
> Destructive Devices, and Weapons of Mass Destruction.--
> ``(1) Definitions.--In this subsection:
> ``(A) The term `destructive device' has the same meaning as
> in section 921(a)(4).
> ``(B) The term `explosive' has the same meaning as in
> section 844(j).
> ``(C) The term `weapon of mass destruction' has the same
> meaning as in section 2332a(c)(2).
> ``(2) Prohibition.--It shall be unlawful for any person--
> ``(A) to teach or demonstrate the making or use of an
> explosive, a destructive device, or a weapon of mass
> destruction, or to distribute by any means information
> pertaining to, in whole or in part, the manufacture or use of
> an explosive, destructive device, or weapon of mass
> destruction, with the intent that the teaching,
> demonstration, or information be used for, or in furtherance
> of, an activity that constitutes a Federal crime of violence;
> or
> ``(B) to teach or demonstrate to any person the making or
> use of an explosive, a destructive device, or a weapon of
> mass destruction, or to distribute to any person, by any
> means, information pertaining to, in whole or in part, the
> manufacture or use of an explosive, destructive device, or
> weapon of mass destruction, knowing that such person intends
> to use the teaching, demonstration, or information for, or in
> furtherance of, an activity that constitutes a Federal crime
> of violence.''.
> (b) Penalties.--Section 844 of title 18, United States
> Code, is amended--
> (1) in subsection (a), by striking ``person who violates
> any of subsections'' and inserting the following: ``person
> who--
> ``(1) violates any of subsections'';
> (2) by striking the period at the end and inserting ``;
> and'';
> (3) by adding at the end the following:
> ``(2) violates subsection (p)(2) of section 842, shall be
> fined under this title, imprisoned not more than 20 years, or
> both.''; and
> (4) in subsection (j), by striking ``and (i)'' and
> inserting ``(i), and (p)''.
>
>-Thomas
>
>Thomas Edwards The Sync
>thomas@thesync.com Video for the Net Generation
>http://www.thesync.com 312 Laurel Avenue
>1.301.438.7281 Laurel, MD 20707
>



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