Posted on 03/30/2017 11:21:05 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Man behind manual for violent rebellion, used in a number of high-profile killings, had long repented publishing and turned to charitable work
The author of one of the most notorious books of the last century died of a heart attack – six months ago. William Powell’s The Anarchist Cookbook was used by Oklahoma bomber Timothy McVeigh in 1995 and the Columbine high school killers in 1999. His death has become public after it was noted in the closing credits of a new documentary about his life.
The writer suffered a fatal heart attack while on holiday with his family in Nova Scotia on 11 July, at the age of 66. Though news of his death was announced to the Facebook group for his charity, the family did not contact the media. News filtered out at the US theatrical release of documentary American Anarchist, which mentions his death as the film closes.
A manual filled with diagrams and recipes about how to make weapons from bombs to homemade guns and even how to convert a shotgun into a rocket launcher, The Anarchist Cookbook was inspired by Powell’s rage at the presidency of Richard Nixon and the Vietnam war.
As an angry teenager in 1969, he used the New York Public Library to research and the book included instructions for illegal practices including breaking into telephone networks and making LSD. The book went on to sell more than 2m copies.
Though publication was suppressed in some countries, the book is available online and has been associated with a number of terrorist attacks and school shootings, the last being in 2013 when shooter Karl Pierson killed a classmate and then himself in a high school in Denver, Colorado. Friends later said he had been sharing the book with others for years.
The government altered the recopies. They went to the publisher and they agreed for subtitle changes in the formulas in order to decrease their effectiveness. Even the internet recipes have evidence of being altered. FWIW.
subtitle changes in the formulas in order to decrease their effectiveness.
It was a favorite of “patriot militias” during the run up to Y2K
I liked the 11 shot pump shotgun. He made an extended tube to hold 10, with one in the chamber. You could use an old model Ithaca shotgun, the model would fire every time you pumped while holding the trigger down. A real street sweeper!
My seniments exactly!
That man taught me how to make a hand grenade from a shotgun shell.
So thanks for that.
I gots to believe that if you try to down load this little manual at this point, you will get the attention of one or two gub mint goon squads.
Now what will become of Myrna Loy?
Years ago, my idiot cousin had a copy. He later blew up his family’s Beetle trying out a recipe.
My aunt was not amused.
The other old favorite was the “Poor Man’s James Bond”. A friend of mine’s Dad was in the Army, and talked about it. He said it was a quick way to lose a few limbs.
Of course, we found a copy at a local gun show. Leafing through it, even the 18 year old and invincible guys that we were at the time saw that “Well, this will kill you!”
Man, I am old.
All he did was collect info that was already available. He turned it from not that hard to find to easy to find. And now with the internet it’s super easy to find. Who used it really isn’t his fault, it’s just info.
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