Comments on: Proportionate, just and sane

By: Laban Tall

Laban Tall — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 21:01:06 +0000

He was also in possession of about a pound of saltpetre, the oxidiser in gunpowder. Given that you can buy the stuff made up very cheaply (in fireworks), he seems to be taking a roundabout route.

http://ukcommentators.blogspot.com/2007/10/new-wave-of-british-jihad-update.html

I think the difference is that he is alleged to have actually wanted to blow people up – BNP members according to the Dewsbury papers.

Robert Cottage, who also had saltpetre, got 2.5 years. Compare his sentence with that of Edward Mattison, who not only made but detonated some quite large devices. He got less than half Cottage’s sentence.

Omar Altimimi got nine years despite the police admitting that “we will never know exactly what Altimimi was preparing to do”. He had built up a library of terror-related literature – but on those grounds Professor Paul Wilkinson should be inside.

http://ukcommentators.blogspot.com/2007/08/boom-bang-bang.html

By: Jim Bliss

Jim Bliss — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 21:45:10 +0000

It was the instructions for concocting LSD that compelled me to get my hands on the thing when I was a teenager. And while I can’t speak for the bomb-making tips, none of the acid recipes worked.

So not only is this poor sod being persecuted for being a normal geeky male adolescent, he’s almost certainly being persecuted for owning bomb-making instructions that don’t even work very well.

By: Simon J

Simon J — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 16:12:46 +0000

Um I mean Venture Scout, I am not young enough to have been an Explorer Scout!

By: Simon J

Simon J — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 15:57:57 +0000

When an Explorer Scout one of our number would steel volotile chemicals from school and take them on camp, the intended purpose being bright flashes, and big bangs, not actual destruction of anything.

By: bigmund

bigmund — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 11:42:00 +0000

Damn Right John. Many of us kids did this in our teenage years – I remember a substance known as “Flash Powder” being available from the local joke shop in the 70’s – some friends and I used this to make a home-made device which we then exploded on the outskirts of our village. It attracted little notice.

Incidentally, it seems to escape the notice of these crazed law-makers that many tons of high explosives will pass into the hands of our teenagers in the next few weeks, these being freely available from newsagents. I wonder in what way the actions of the kids referred to above is so reprehensible in comparison?

By: Sim-O

Sim-O — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 11:24:13 +0000

I can’t remember if I blew anything up ‘cos I was too busy reading instructions on how to grow cannibis (whilst smoking copious amounts), but everyone has equipment to carry out a terrorist act. It’s called a brain.