The Availability of Bomb-Making Information on the Internet
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| Hersteller: | Forgotten Books (Judiciary, United States Senate Committe) |
| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
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Excerpt from The Availability of Bomb-Making Information on the Internet: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Terrorism, Technology, and Government Information of the Committee on the Judiciary; United States Senate One Hundred Fourth Congress; First Session on Examining the Implication of the Availability of Bomb Making Informa I think the Senate should not stand aside and not act when there is so much public concern, lest our inaction produce something else. I don´t want to make any self-fulfilling prophecies, but I do think it is important to move ahead. My suggestion is embodied in a sense-of-the-Senate resolution, which is now pending in the Senate, to move ahead with that hearing on or before June 30, 1995. The subcommittee will have a fifth hearing on May 25 on the subject of the militia movement, which will conclude the hearings which we have outlined to be held in advance of Labor Day. Today´s hearing is on the so-called mayhem manuals. I think this is a very, very important hearing because it poses on the cutting edge the issue of freedom of speech versus public protection. Shortly after the Oklahoma City bombing, a message was transmitted on the Internet which said: Are you interested in receiving information detailing the components and materials needed to construct a bomb identical to the one used in Oklahoma? The information specifically details the construction, deployment, and detonation of high-powered explosives. It also includes complete details of the bomb used in Oklahoma City, and how it was used and how it could have been better. The information will be provided to anyone who properly requests it and is provided solely for informative purposes. The last sentence obviously was designed to add a disclaimer. In the Internet, we now have an international, cooperative computer network of more than 28,000 computer networks in 60 countries, which links many types of users such as governments, schools, libraries, corporations, individuals, and others. So, the issue of dissemination is now just enormous, and really overwhelming. Available on the Internet is a voluminous manual entitled, "The Big Book of Mischief," covering some 93 pages. There are instructions on how to make a bomb with ammonium nitrate, how to make what they call an easy Molotov cocktail, which can be constructed by a 10-year-old, and how to manufacture book bombs. The concerns and the problems are self-evident. Against that, we have the longstanding first amendment guarantees in the United States, exemplified by the Supreme Court decision in Brandenburg v. Ohio, which says: The constitutional guarantees of free speech and free press do not permit a State to forbid or prescribe advocacy of the use of force, of law violation, except where such advocacy is directed to inciting or producing imminent lawless action and is likely to incite or product such action. There has been a recorded case by the U. S. district court in Wisconsin which involves a prior restraint on the dissemination of a book which tells you how to make a hydrogen bomb. That particular decision implicates the Atomic Energy Act, so it is a little different, and we have with us today. Prof. Frank Tuerkheimer, who represented the Government in that case. In the intervening days since the Oklahoma City bombing, I have had discussions with many lay people and many lawyers on the unique kinds of problems which we face, here. The response of so many people is: How can we permit these mayhem manuals from being distributed, especially over the Internet? You have to judge that against a long history of constitutional rights. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hu
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