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)
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.
The there is the red herring reason for this ABC news manufacturing opportunity....
ok why does this sound and feel like a "you might poke your eye out" story?
Great! Let's shut down Homeland and give the national security contract to Brian Ross. That little twit. They should throw him in jail for that stunt. Oh, I forgot. Reporters can do whatever they want.
ABC News buying fertilizer in bulk? That's crazy talk.
Since the only time this was used as a WMD in the US was in the 90's......is Brian saying that Bush has failed to uphold the laws passed by the previous administration?
Gosh! I guess that gets Iran off the hook!!!
I've watched an ammonium nitrate explosion when with an engineer unit. It's very effective.
However, it's also fertilizer. I don't think it would take much for them to slightly change the chemical composition and still have the fertilizer effect.
10 tons of manure just about sums up the MSM. With a bit of sewer sludge thrown in for good measure.
its funny.....almost everyone here is acting as the REAL crime is that its a ABC news crew. Who cares if it ABC or CNN or FOX? The POINT OF THE STORY is that if a news crew can do this then so can a group of rag heads with a death wish
I have read news articles where the writer was astonished that people can just walk into a gun store. As if, I suppose, people should levitate in, or walk through the walls, or parachute in.
So, they put ten or twenty bags of fertilizer in a rented storage shed, and that's news? This explains their ratings.
"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."
IF ABC is trying to threaten us, I'm unimpressed.
They've done a lot more damage to America in their biased reporting.
That's nothing. Today, I moved forty 50 pound bags of clay from one location to another in the city where I work, and nobody said a thing.
I could have mixed ammonium nitrate in with that, and it would have been REAL suspicious, an' all.
Don't know what you could do with it, but hey - it would have had ammonium nitrate in it!
;-)
Better safeguards?
Against main stream media stunts like this?
"This is pretty sad that they were able to do this."
Next week, they will demonstrate how easy it is to rob banks and get away with it.
" There SHOULD be outrage. People in this forum are WAYYYYYY to easy to just take up for whoever. This needs to be investigated and there needs to be better safeguards."
Absolutely! Send the FBI to search every network news facility for bombs. If one did itthey all could be doing it. And lets be thorough about it. (/sarc)
I still believe OKC wouldn't have happened if WACO hadn't shown how much of our government at the time was in the hands of ruthless killers;or if the lies and murders of Ruby Ridge or Waco weren't blamed on the victims. McVeigh chose to particpate in OKC bombing ,I think,out of frustrated anger at what many saw as injustice.He's safely dead.He can hurt no one else(especially by talking.)
So why punish a million farmers who already deal with too much government?
Here is just another incident of leftist scum pretending to be reporting news,all the while fabricating stories intended to justify their own calls for more unconstitutional limits on American freedom.
The 19th century had its yellow journalism,and the latter 20th and early 21st have RED,as in Communist journalists.
ABC News: 1,000 pounds of fertilizer in a 500 pound bag...
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