Posted on 09/08/2006 5:28:21 PM PDT by indcons
With virtually no questions asked, an undercover ABC News team was able to purchase a half ton of one of the world's most dangerous bomb-making materials and move it into a storage shed only a few miles from the White House and the U.S. Capitol.
Despite its use in the bombing of the Oklahoma City Federal Building, there are still no federal laws restricting the purchase of ammonium nitrate, a chemical fertilizer, widely sold at farm supply stores.
The ABC News undercover team made the purchases, in cash, at farm supply stores in North Carolina and Virginia and were never once asked for any valid ID.
Legislation requiring buyers of ammonium nitrate to be registered by the federal government have been blocked by the agricultural industry, according to the Chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, Congressman Pete King (R-NY).
The results of the ABC News investigation are "a wake-up call that the American people and the Congress needs," King said. A law requiring sellers to record purchases has passed King's committee and is awaiting a vote by the full House.
Brian Ross' full investigative report will air Monday on World News with Charles Gibson and as part of an ABC News Special Report on the fifth anniversary of 9/11. (10pm EST/9pm Central)
That this was done near the White House to prove a point--instead of, say, in Manhattan or somewhere--shows what this really is--a piece of leftist political theater.
I'd ask ABC to do a similar test to compare and contrast with what the Democrats have done to keep us safer since 9/11. but they haven't done ANYTHING--not a thing--to keep us safer. (Except bitch.) One could rightly say "but they haven't been in power since then," which of course isn't true--they had power in the Senate for a lengthy period after 9/11--but that's beside the point. The fact is, the Dems have been on the sidelines. So of course, we should consider THEIR alternatives, and compare THOSE.
Except they haven't even offered any. You'd think being out of power and hating Bush they could be cranking out alternatives day and night to show the public, but they don't because if these alternatives are shot down, then they will lose the illusion of perfection that offering nothing to be criticized gives.
The Democrats and their handmaidens in the media are bitchy little worms, with no backbone, no honest alternatives, and nothing to offer except "Not Bush." I hate using this line, but it can no longer be ignored: They are unpatriotic power-hungry fools.
If you look at the educational requirements of journalism students it goes a long way in explaining some of the statements they put it print !
So freaking what?
...and the necessity of the Government owning and controlling all farms, 'for the public good' ...
**they'd be doing a story on how Big Brother government intrusion is preventing farmers from make a living**
..they'd be doing a story on how Big Brother government intrusion is preventing SMALL farmers, THAT DON'T RECEIVE USDA SUBSIDIES, from making a living.
There, fixed it for ya.
I guess controlling the farms is as good as owning them.
The subsidies have turned farmers into guv'ment reliant addicts.
The guaranteed money makes them bolder, always ready to rent more ground, squeezing out more small farmers.
Investors are glad to buy farm ground that taxpayers are helping them to make payments on.
There was a farm bureau sponsored 'farm tour', for city folk, in our locale a couple of years ago. One of my friends, a self suffient small farmer (one of few left), told me his immediate neighbor was on the tour site list. My friend's wife wouldn't let him put up burma signs for passersby to read: "Everything you are about to see was paid for by the U S Government".
Which reporters constituted the "manure" portion? ;)
Farmers just don't waste their time. It's cheaper to get a license for explosives and blow apart rocks and stumps on their property.
Potassium nitrate is a much better fertilizer, IMHO, if you can afford it. You get tomato plants that don't know which way to go with 7" diameter fruit. That's all you need for a meal. Some Italian dressing maybe. Chow down on fresh big tomatoes. MMMM. Lemon pepper? Sea salt?
I guess everybody else can run to the fridge and see what they didn't devour yet?
Soooo.....in many Hardwood stores, Lowes, Home Depot, etc. ......cans of Spray Paint is kept in locked cages....So why should they NOT monitor something that could be used for harm, as in potential bomb makings?
ABC News undercover team made the purchases, in cash, at farm supply stores in North Carolina and Virginia and were never once asked for any valid ID
If they made themselves obvious to their intention to make a bomb for dramatic purposes, couldn't it be taken that they were asked for ID, but presented FAKE ID?
HA!!
Do you know that you can't remove DHMO contamination from fruit by washing it?
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I ain't afeered o no dadgummed DHMO, my ma ust ta wash me in it neerbout ever day.
Everyone who is exposed to even the smallest amount of hydrogen monoxide eventually dies.
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Scary, ain't it. Millions of people were fed diluted acetic acid derived from apples during the nineteenth century, nearly all of them are dead and the rest are not expected to survive much longer.
They have a Walmart down the street?
Hell I live rural, we have all sorts of similar materials in 9000+ Gallon tanks just outside of town..
oooohhh scary stuff.
My sister in law has freight trains carrying LPG for miles that goes through her town ... that is scary compared to "Lawn fertilizer"
Nahhh.
Next week, ABC will buy manure precursors and move them onto the White House lawn.
(Manure precursors = cows)
Is the White House alarmed that there is half a ton of chicken s$%t in the DC area? Maybe they already suspected a lot more than half a ton since that is only one pickup truck load.
Egads!
Is Di-Hydrous Oxide any more or less dangerous than Bi-Hydrogen Monoxide?
Throw them in jail for attempting to blow up the White House.
So essentially they are admitting they bought it for non-agricultural use and stockpiled it where it could be used.
Sounds like the FBI needs to lock these bastards up for possible terrorism intent.
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