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<H1><A NAME="anchor937871"></A><STRONG>FRONT PAGE ON BOMBINGS;<BR>
EXPOSE' OR HOAX?</STRONG><A NAME="anchor6370931"></A></H1>
<H2>(Diagrams &amp; photos in U.S. MILITIA)<BR>
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by Kurt Saxon </H2>
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Most people like to watch expose's. It makes them think really rotten people
are getting exposed as the really rotten people they are. It also creates
the hope that they will be stopped in their evil, that they will never inflict
themselves on decent people again.<BR>
<BR>
That was my impression as well. Like most people, I seldom doubted the honesty
of the exposers. Of course, I sometimes wondered why such awful people were
allowed to carry on for as long as they had or why the powers that be didn't
throw a net over them half way through the investigation.<BR>
<BR>
Then I was exposed. I've been interviewed many times in many years by many
reporters who disapproved of my program. Their treatments of such interviews
were usually just as slanted as possible to show me as a very negative character.
It didn't bother me. I just considered them unprofessional.<BR>
<BR>
Then I was interviewed by Josh Mankiewicz, of Front Page. The interview
lasted about thirty minutes on camera and I qualified every statement and
explained every aspect of the field of books on improvised weaponry.<BR>
<BR>
Josh meant to blame books for bombings, just as our anti-gun factions blame
guns for criminality. His proof was that all the bombers he listed had books
on making bombs, hence, without the books, there would have been no bombings.<BR>
<BR>
In point of fact, there have been bombers ever since Europeans got gunpowder,
hundreds of years ago. Anyone who knows that gunpowder, confined and detonated,
constitutes a bomb, can figure out how to make a workable bomb. Books including
the subject only add details, which anyone with a basic knowledge of chemistry
and/or electronics can figure out for himself.<BR>
<BR>
I don't know of one book on sale today which is strictly about making bombs.
Poor Man's James Bond, Vol. 1 has only ten devices considered bombs (explosive
and fire). Of its 477 pages, only 14 pages are devoted to such devices.
PMJB 2 has up to 17 improvised bombs of various kinds covered in 15 of its
484 pages. PMJB 3 has about 6 devices which could be called bombs, mostly
in the booby trap sections, with no more than 6 pages out of 411. PMJB 4
has only 1 device not repeated in the other volumes, in its 462 pages. So
of 1834 pages, only 40 are devoted to bombs and only about half the 38 or
so bombs being the type an amateur could put together, using easily gotten
materials. Yet, Josh calls them &quot;bomb books&quot;. Actually, The Poor
Man's James Bond series is an encyclopedia of do-it-yourself weaponry covering
every area of the field. Bombs are a minor subject.<BR>
<BR>
The Front Page report on bombings, aired July 10, 1993, opened with Josh
saying, &quot;A new government report says bombings in the U.S. have doubled
in the last five years, from just over 900 in 1988 to 1900 last year. That's
five bombings a day carried out by terrorists, by vandals, by nut cases,
by people out for revenge. And the really scary news is, anyone who wants
to blow something up, can do it with the help of how-to books and instructional
tapes; they're all perfectly legal&quot;.<BR>
<BR>
That was the beginning of the report and it went on with visuals that looked
like World War Three. And in the background, the ruthless peddlers of bomb
manuals. A clear and present danger. A real cause for alarm.<BR>
<BR>
The piece was very slick and convincing. It was so convincing, the woman
who had worked for us for five years, cleaning our home one day a week quit.
She couldn't live a Christian and take money from a man like me. Her best
friend encouraged her and then came and took her job.<BR>
<BR>
But let's go over the figures and see what all the fear-mongering amounts
to. Nineteen hundred bombings in a year. (Count big firecrackers in mail
boxes, molotov cocktails, simple pipe bombs, and include some really destructive
devices). There was no breakdown but actually few life-threatening operations
occurred in that time. Even so, in a nation of two hundred and sixty million,
plus, that breaks down to one bomb, from nuisance to tragic, to a hundred
thirty one thousand people. Little cause for national panic. That's even
tame compared with the late '60s.<BR>
<BR>
In 1970 I was called before the Senate to explain the Militant's Formulary,
a 31 page booklet which evolved into the present Poor Man's James Bond.
The Senate wanted to know if I was deliberately selling the material to
groups dangerous to society or the government.<BR>
<BR>
I was indeed a dedicated anti-leftist. Since then, most of my former opponents
have joined the Establishment or become Survivalists. I have no problem
with them now.<BR>
<BR>
But the figures from the transcript show that the rate of bombings of every
sort has decreased over the years. Moreover, in 1970, I had sold only a
little over 200 copies and the Anarchist Cookbook was not yet published.
What books there were were mainly military manuals anyone could get but
few needed.<BR>
<BR>
Certainly, college students, with access to chemicals and the knowledge
of the principles of such simple devices didn't need any sort of manual.
Nor did the criminal element and the assorted fanatics and craziest running
loose at that time.<BR>
<BR>
So to blame books for bombings is as silly as to blame guns for the violent
acts of the habitual criminal.<BR>
<BR>
Josh stated that 45 people lost their lives to bombs last year. Nineteen
of those by accident. Of course, this would mean that the nineteen accidental
deaths happened to careless bombers. Simple justice.<BR>
<BR>
That leaves 26 intended victims or victims who happened to be near the targets.
Coincidentally, there were 26,000 murders in the U.S. last year. So statistically,
if you are fated to be murdered, your chances of being murdered by a bomb
are only one out of a thousand. Looking at it another way, your overall
chances of being killed by a bomb are only one in nine million, six hundred
and fifteen thousand and three hundred and eighty four. Of course, if you
make bombs, your chances of being killed are much greater. So if Josh's
figures are correct, bombers aren't much of a threat after all.<BR>
<BR>
Josh's report places a lot of importance on the bombing of the World Trade
Center. The group responsible for that bombing is alleged to have had such
manuals as Josh warns against. I told Josh the bombers were incompetent
and wouldn't have known how to use my books. He disagreed. But I was right.<BR>
<BR>
For three days after the bombing, I was convinced it had been done by a
professional. I pictured a fired, crazy demolitions expert showing his former
boss and the world how to do the most structural damage with the least loss
of life. From that point of view it was a masterpiece.<BR>
<BR>
Then the Feds nabbed the bombers and they proved to be Moslem terrorists.
So here's a building with nearly 50,000 hated infidels working there. The
object would be to level the building and kill everyone in it. To only kill
six was a disgrace and a botched job. Pitiful! They didn't use my books
and they were indeed incompetent.<BR>
<BR>
The only death shown to have ever happened to anyone using a book of mine
was that of Buddy Waldron. He and an accomplice were transporting a bomb
which blew up, killing Waldron and blowing off the hand of his accomplice.<BR>
<BR>
The day after it happened, two reporters called me from Seattle, telling
me that one of my books had been found in the home of Waldron. I was told
that there had been several bombings of local college lavatories. I suggested
there was a strong indication that the college bombings had been done by
the two college foot ball heroes. The reporters agreed but also volunteered
that they had been punished enough and the police were not going to charge
the one who lived.<BR>
<BR>
That one had told investigators that they were carrying the bomb to a field
to set it off just for fun. Waldron's father repeated the alibi and said
the bomb probably went off due to a short circuit.<BR>
<BR>
I'm pretty sure the PMJB Waldron had was volume 2. The only bomb in it with
a timer is on page 314, from TM 31-210, Improvised Munitions. That bomb
is not as simple or as good as the one on pages 44-45 of PMJB 1. At any
rate, it's too simple to allow for a short circuit. Besides, any short circuit
would have caused it to go off before the dummies could have gotten it to
their car.<BR>
<BR>
They weren't taking it to a field. One does not carry a ticking bomb to
a field and set it off there. Had they meant to take it to a field they
would have armed it there. As stupid as they were, they couldn't have been
that stupid.<BR>
<BR>
As shown in the diagram, there are five steps to arming such a bomb. Incidentally,
No. 2 should be No. 5, as the watch is wound last. At any rate, these steps
are not done by feel. The bomb isn't armed where someone might see, such
as a janitor coming on the scene. Of course, a janitor might have appeared
after they set the bomb and gotten blown to bits. As I reconstruct the incident,
they armed the bomb and were driving it to the next college lavatory. They
may have been careless in arming it or they may have been held up in traffic.<BR>
<BR>
I told Josh about the Seattle reporters so he knew the background story.
But he wanted to show them as victims. He described Waldron as an exceptional
person with unlimited potential. He said Waldron wanted to be a Navy Seal
or a D.E.A. agent. Ha!<BR>
<BR>
If he wanted to be a Navy Seal, what was he doing at the advanced age of
22 playing college football? If he wanted to join the D.E.A., why didn't
he? He wanted to be a jock, get girls, raise hell. He was a clown.<BR>
<BR>
Josh also said Waldron's only crime was in making one dumb mistake. Wrong.
He committed two crimes. The first was in making a bomb, a federal offense.
The second was in transporting the bomb, an equally serious federal offense.
Had they been stopped by police for some traffic violation and the bomb
were found, they would probably both be in prison today. They were criminals
in every sense and deserve no sympathy or whitewashing.<BR>
<BR>
Josh missed a chance to do one good thing in his report. He showed a boy,
Mark Melton, 16, who built a bomb described in The Anarchist Cookbook and
blew off part of one hand.<BR>
<BR>
The Anarchist Cookbook is probably the most inaccurate book on improvised
weaponry. (See Doug Bell's review elsewhere in this issue). It's not surprising
that Mark was injured while making a bomb ''just for fun&quot;. This is
a common experience with those who use that book. It is far more dangerous
to one who uses it than to any intended victim.<BR>
<BR>
Had Josh been honest, he would have examined that book and warned that it's
a kind of suicide manual. Josh should have warned his audience not to buy
it and would have, had his report been meant to be instructive rather than
simply alarmist and sensational.<BR>
<BR>
A point I'd like to make is that anyone making a bomb and being injured
by it will always give an innocent excuse. Mark did it &quot;just for fun&quot;.
Waldron &quot;wanted to see if he could make a bomb&quot;. Nonsense! Would
you expect them to admit they meant to do harm or cause property damage?<BR>
<BR>
How does anyone know that Mark didn't intend to kill someone? Only one ignorant
of the background story would believe Waldron to be innocent.<BR>
<BR>
Until some real tyranny is imposed, anyone building a bomb should be suspected
of the intent to murder. They should get no sympathy from anyone. If a fool
builds a bomb and it blows up in his face, that's better than if it blows
up in yours.<BR>
<BR>
The report also featured interviews of FBI, ATF and police bomb squad personnel.
Whatever else they actually said, Josh used only their statements to the
effect that knowledge published by such as I was what enabled otherwise
harmless people to cause death and destruction.<BR>
<BR>
The statements Josh aired gave the impression that the authorities believed
such books as mine were indeed a threat to national security and society
at large. But they didn't seem worried, as they would have had their feelings
matched their statements.<BR>
<BR>
Although I was on camera for about thirty minutes, the only statements of
mine used were those which showed me as callous and insensitive. I remember
what I said, which, had it been aired, would have qualified the harsh statements
he featured.<BR>
<BR>
The purpose of the report was to alarm the viewer over the easy availability
of such horrible books. He made sure every viewer was aware of the public
danger. But without the explosives to make the bombs, the books would be
useless.<BR>
<BR>
As I've explained, anyone knowing the basic principles of the improvised
bomb can make one if he has the chemicals. More people can figure out how
to make a bomb than know where to get the explosives that go into it. Josh
didn't tell where to get my books but he did tell everyone where to get
the explosives. And there was no indication that the sellers of those explosives
were unfriendly.<BR>
<BR>
A potential bomber with the knowledge might not feel the need to order my
books. All he might lack is the know- how to get the chemicals. So if Josh
wants to guard the public from bombers, why did he so graphically point
out the easy availability of the makings for the most destructive bomb outside
the military? But he did just that.<BR>
<BR>
Showing every step in living color he says, &quot;And to show you how easy
it is, we took a little shopping trip to a chemical supply store. And we
brought a hidden camera with us.<BR>
<BR>
&quot;It didn't take long. We made a quick order. We shelled out a couple
of hundred bucks and within minutes our rental truck was being loaded full
of the ingredients for a very big bomb. (Sodium nitrate, ammonium nitrate,
sulfuric acid, etc.). These chemicals are common. You don't need as much
as a driver's license to buy any of them.<BR>
<BR>
&quot;This is what we bought (Showing a van load of sacks, cartons and 55
gallon drums). And it cost about six hundred dollars. Investigators say
these chemicals in these amounts, are what caused the explosion of the World
Trade Center. And I've got the instructions here (shows PMJB 2) on how to
mix them together and set them off.<BR>
<BR>
&quot;We're not going to give you the recipe. But the truth is that the
stuff we bought has plenty of applications. And in fact, there are many
more legitimate uses for these chemicals than for these books and tapes&quot;.<BR>
<BR>
Showing how easy it is to buy chemicals is like exposing bad people who
sell guns to children and then showing those same children how easy it is
to get the bullets.<BR>
<BR>
Overall, there wasn't enough truth in the report to make it worth the effort.
It also had a pattern I've noticed in many exposes. That's why I've come
to doubt exposes in general. If I'm right, and l think I am, maybe you should
look at even the most convincing exposes more closely. Maybe most of them,
even 60 Minutes and 20/20 are sheer propaganda without any honest intent
to correct a bad situation. The next time you see an expose of a doctor
from Hell, still practicing, consider the possibility that he was targeted
just because he wasn't politically correct.<BR>
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