Ammonium nitrate is NOT "one of the world's most dangerous bomb-making materials". You need hundreds of pounds of the stuff to make bomb of any power. More alarmists crap from the same people who wring their hands over the NSA and CIA listening in on terrorists conversations with reporters.
i know! i know!....make fertilizer illegal!....That's the ticket....
Then you need to protect us from cow farts.
Must have been chauncey gardner preparing his to plant his flowers.
An ammonium nitrate "bomb," in a motor vehicle parked adjacent to Sterling Hall on the Univ. of Wis.-Madison campus, essentially identical in principle to the bomb used at Okla City about three decades later, was exploded after midnight, killing graduate student, husband and father Robert Fassnacht.
This was back in the heyday of the anti-VietNam War agitations, and the specific beef here was the the Math. Dept., headquartered in Sterling Hall, was doing secret research for the U. S. ARMY.
Ammonium nitrate and diesel oil - - - a dangerous mix, and found in adequate quantities on many farms. And its all Bush's fault.
A few miles from the White House might as well be 100 miles. Big freakin deal. There are woods and parks "a few miles" from there. What a stupid report about nothing.
So...they broke the law?
You ought to correct the title of this article. It should read:
"ABC proves that claims of civil rights violations by the Bush administration are unfounded."
If they were able to carry out what they claim they did, obviously no men in black suits are spying on Americans everywhere.
I assume ABC will now blow up the White House. Can these people be any more repulsive?
Maybe they could blend this with NBC's April idea, and have 'muslim looking men' carrying the fertilizer around at NASCAR events and filming the responses.
Media Schadenfreude and Media Shenanigans PING
More fertilizer from the DUmass media
these people are sick.. sometimes I think the terrorists get all their training from the Media
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.
So freaking what?
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?
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?
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"
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.
Throw them in jail for attempting to blow up the White House.