From: Joshua Clingenpeel (Josh.Clingenpeel@wwu.edu)
Date: Fri May 28 1999 - 14:24:59 MDT
Thought you guys might appreciate this, given the subject of making bombs.
Got this off the POLITECH mailing list. Check it out.
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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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