From: owner-roc-digest@lists.xmission.com (roc-digest) To: roc-digest@lists.xmission.com Subject: roc-digest V2 #350 Reply-To: roc-digest Sender: owner-roc-digest@lists.xmission.com Errors-To: owner-roc-digest@lists.xmission.com Precedence: bulk roc-digest Friday, June 2 2000 Volume 02 : Number 350 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 1 Jun 00 10:19:47 PST From: roc@xpresso.seaslug.org (Bill Vance) Subject: Marin Co. Judicial Recall: "Storming the Bastille"] (fwd) On Jun 01, Margi Crook wrote: [-------------------- text of forwarded message follows --------------------] From: Jon Roland Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 23:20:41 -0800 Subject: [Lis-LEAF] Fw: Marin Co. Judicial Recall: "Storming the Bastille" Now if we can organize recall drives for corruption and abuse of power generally, especially for violations of constitutions... - ------Begin forwarded message------ Marin Co. Judicial Recall - "Storming The Bastille" By Guy Ashley A few weeks ago, Jean Taylor of San Rafael wondered woefully whether a report recommending an overhaul of Marin's family court system was headed for the dusty bookshelf of history. Now she's concerned the report by New York investigator Karen Winner - which Taylor and about a dozen other citizens commissioned by contributing up to $10,000 from their own pockets - has spawned a monster. What was intended as a well-considered look at perceived family court injustices - primarily child custody matters - has exploded into a recall movement that has enveloped Marin's chief prosecutor and three judges. Taylor isn't the only one worried that the effort to raise awareness about local family court decisions is being obscured by a runaway movement led by a Sausalito minister and perennial political candidate and a mother from Novato who sued every judge in Sonoma County before bringing her wrath down on jurists in Marin. "It's like a shooting gallery," said Martin Silverman of San Rafael, a former county grand juror who helped finance Winner's report. "They're going after everybody." Taylor, Silverman and others who paid for the report and its call for family court reforms have watched with wonder, and some trepidation, as protesters held noisy Wednesday afternoon demonstrations and took out petitions seeking to recall District Attorney Paula Kamena and Superior Court judges Michael Dufficy, Lynn Duryee and Terrence Boren. "Once Karen Winner's report was aired, all these people who harbored all these frustrations for so long thought, 'the cat's out of the bag,' " said Taylor, who has lived in San Rafael for 40 years. "Now they're going for blood." Taylor and Silverman said they don't support the recall efforts and are frustrated by a public perception that they're behind the signature drive. "We want to divorce ourselves from those people," Taylor said. At the center of the recall drive is Peter Romanowsky, a father of three who says he "walked away" from a child custody dispute with his ex-wife and hasn't seen his children in more than three years. Romanowsky is a marine salvage specialist who has made unsuccessful bids for election to the state Senate and the boards of the Sausalito School District and Marin Healthcare District. He leads regular protests outside the Marin Civic Center that he says are getting the word out that things need fixing in the county courts. "One police officer told me that I was going to lose all my credibility, going after so many judges," he wrote in one of the voluminous e-mails he has been sending recall watchers. "Some people think we have bitten off more than we can chew, but it's just not so. "We are storming the Bastille." .... Recall organizers face the formidable task of convincing about 13,000 registered Marin voters to sign their petitions calling for recall elections. A spokeswoman with the Marin Registrar of Voters said the petitions have yet to be certified because of wording that needs to be added or omitted from draft petitions submitted by recall leaders. One political consultant who steered two successful recall campaigns in Marin said the courthouse recall movement stands a chance - if the signature gatherers are willing to put ample time and money into their efforts. Mark O'Hara, who guided successful recalls involving the Marin Healthcare District and Sausalito school board, said he believes the courthouse critics include some well-financed individuals, at least one of whom already spent several hundred thousand dollars in fighting a child custody battle. "If someone like that is willing to spend that kind of money on a recall, a lot of damage could be done," he said. Although he is not involved in the recall, O'Hara said an effective campaign would direct its money toward gathering signatures and running a "thorough and persistent media campaign" to keep controversy in the minds of voters. O'Hara said the recall campaign's greatest hope of success appeared to be with Dufficy, an embattled jurist who was a primary target in Winner's report and about whom rumblings of dissension have been heard at the courthouse for at least three years. In 1997, the county Civil Grand Jury was asked to investigate rulings by Dufficy and Court Commissioner Sylvia Shapiro in family law cases. Silverman, then chairman of the grand jury's law and justice committee, said the panel voted 19-0 to launch an investigation, only to be told by County Counsel Patrick Faulkner that the panel did not have jurisdiction to investigate. Silverman said he remained concerned about Marin's family court after he left the grand jury, and later joined forces with other citizens who found the court's operations scandalous. The group determined that only wider public knowledge would spur change and began discussing how to shed light on happenings in family court. Ironically, Silverman said, the group rejected the notion of a recall because it believed gathering the required signatures would be next to impossible if the public was not adequately informed. Instead, the group went to Winner, author of the 1996 book, "Divorced from Justice," in hopes she could help bring more public attention to the family court controversy. Silverman has since run into his own problems with Kamena's office, which earlier this month revealed it was investigating whether he breached his oath to keep grand jury matters confidential by revealing publicly that the complaints that prompted the report originated with the grand jury. Winner's report says Dufficy lined the pockets of friends by appointing them to child-custody cases as lawyers and psychological experts. He denies the charge, noting that court-appointed attorneys and psychological experts often are paid at rates so low that many in these professions don't want the work. Winner says she spent three months putting together the report. She cited nine cases in her report that had been presented to her at the outset by people who approached her about doing the investigation and felt they had been wronged by the court. The report also accuses Dufficy of keeping "secret financial ties" to local law firms, primarily by hearing cases involving Marin attorneys from offices where his wife worked as a legal secretary. Dufficy said he obtained a verbal opinion from the state Judicial Council that allowed him to hear such cases and that he has informed litigants of his wife's status anyway. Dufficy said he is being wrongly vilified. In an interview, he said his biggest transgression might have been his decision to stay at the helm of the county's family law bench for seven years. "Unlike the other courts in this building, there is no jury. The judge makes all the decisions in family court," he said. "Over seven years, you build up a critical mass of people who are angry at you because they disagree with your rulings." Dufficy, who said he now believes judges should serve in family court no more than two or three years, has announced his intention to leave the family law bench immediately. The stress caused by the flood of criticism, he said, has led to health problems he needs to correct. Marin's legal establishment appears to be standing squarely behind Dufficy and the others. "It's astounding they're taking this route," said Royda Crosland, a Mill Valley attorney who is president of the Marin County Bar Association. "If these people want to voice criticism in a constructive way, in a way that will be heard by the judges, they have taken the wrong approach. They've put everybody on the defensive and just closed the door to the possibility of a constructive dialogue." Crosland said the local Bar Association has not taken a formal position on the recall drive, but she predicted the group would oppose the recall when it votes on a position at its monthly meeting in June. .... Contact Guy Ashley via e-mail at gashley@marinij.com - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Peter Romanowsky, leading this recall movement, is JAIL's Marin County California Representative. J.A.I.L. (Judicial Accountability Initiative Law) Use header to subscribe/remove: jail4judges@mindspring.com JAIL is a unique addition to our form of government. JAIL is powerful! It is dynamic! It is America's ONLY hope! 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Cleon Skousen's book "The 5,000 Year Leap. - - If you would like a copy of this book, I can obtain it for you. You can call me at (702) 649-6808 RULER'S LAW The Founders seemed anxious that modern man recognize the subversive characteristics of oppressive Ruler's Law which they identified primarily with a tyrannical monarchy. Here are its basic characteristics: 1. Authority under Ruler's Law is nearly always established by force, violence, and conquest. 2. Therefore, all sovereign power is considered to be in the conqueror or his descendants. 3. The people are not equal, but are divided into classes and are all looked upon as "subjects" of the king. 4. The entire country is considered to be the property of the ruler. He speaks of it as his "realm." 5. The thrust of governmental power is from the top down, not from the people upward. 6. The people have no unalienable rights. The "king giveth and the king taketh away." 7. Government is by the whims of men, not by the fixed rule of law which the people need in order to govern their affairs with confidence. 8. The ruler issues edicts which are called "the law." He then interprets the law and enforces it, thus maintaining tyrannical control over the people. 9. Under Ruler's Law, problems are always solved by issuing more edicts or laws, setting up more bureaus, harassing the people with more regulators, and charging the people for these "services" by continually adding to their burden of taxes. [page 12] 10. Freedom is never looked upon as a viable solution to anything. 11. The long history of Ruler's Law is one of blood and terror, both anciently and in modern times. Under it the people are stratified into an aristocracy of the ruler's retinue while the lot of the common people is one of perpetual poverty, excessive taxation, stringent regulations, and a continuous existence of misery. I remain... Your lady in liberty, Lady Liberty (Patricia A. 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"In the past, it's been a buyer's market, but we began to feel the pinch last year," explains George Ann Rice, assistant superintendent for human resources at the Clark County School District. Las Vegas public schools hire 70 percent of their 1,800 new teachers from out of state each year, and suddenly -- instead of pleading for a job, any job -- applicants have begun to ask about signing bonuses, moving allowances, and help in paying off student loans, Ms. Rice explains. That's because other states have begun to pay moving costs. Some offer signing bonuses of $5,000 or more. Los Angeles now offers starting teachers $37,000 a year (compared to Clark County's $26,800), and California's governor has even started to talk about a state income tax exemption for teachers. Clark County offers no such incentives (though, in fairness, low-cost Nevada doesn't have a state income tax, either.) All these reasons were cited as the state Housing Division briefed Nevada Gov. Kenny Guinn and other members of the state Board of Finance last week on the idea of selling $20 million to $30 million worth of taxable bonds in order to offer home loans to teachers at lower-than-market rates. Under one version of the plan, the state Housing Division would offer mortgage loans to teachers at 2 percentage points below the market rate for the first few years of the loan, after which the rate would climb to about half a percentage point below the market -- an incentive which could be worth tens of thousands of dollars over the life of the mortgage, depending on purchase price. "Since the state does not have the taxpayer funds to offer incentives to teachers, we have to look at other alternatives," explained Lon DeWeese, chief financial officer for the Housing Division. But in fact, while they may appear cheaper at first glance, such schemes have their dangers. Few object to Uncle Sam offering free or low-cost food, housing, and medical care to armed forces personnel. But how far can we take this before the populace begins to begrudge the new, preferred status of even run-of-the-mill government employees? Given that no one has ever heard of a college student dropping out of the School of Ed to choose the easier path of aeronautical engineering, are government school teachers really "underpaid?" The Nevada state Department of Education reports that for the 1998-99 school year, the average teacher's pay in Nevada was $40,542 before benefits. But because teachers work only 184 days a year in Clark County (for example), as compared to the national average 235-day work year for non-teachers, the relevant U.S. Department of Labor formula translates that to $29.54 per hour, or an annual rate before benefits of $61,443. (Teachers get a three-month summer break during which they're free to take advanced classes in order to climb the salary scale. Or, they can earn extra cash by teaching summer school, tutoring, or taking a non-education job -- opportunities grabbed up by 17 percent, 5 percent, and 10 percent of teachers, respectively, according to the Nevada Policy Research Institute.) But then, "For every dollar spent on teacher salaries in Nevada, another 27.3 cents is spent on teacher benefits," reports NPRI President Judy Cresanta in her cover story in the latest edition of the Reno think tank's "Nevada Journal" magazine, "Brother, Can You Paradigm?" "When NPRI senior research fellow Mary Novello surveyed all 17 Nevada counties and the state, she found that teacher benefits average $11,165 for each school year -- bringing total average teacher compensation per school year to $51,707," Ms. Cresanta reports. Annualized, "That total annual salary-benefit package ends up exceeding $78,364!" Pity the starving schoolmarms. And once the otherwise useless state "Housing Division" is given a permanent new sinecure administering this "Teachers Low-Interest Home Loan Program," shall we next erect commissaries where our new aristocracy can buy better food than the common folk, at lower prices? Before we go down this road, we might first ask whether there really is a teacher shortage -- not just an artificial shortfall caused by an insistence on arbitrary "pedagogy credentials" -- and whether any such shortage might not be caused in large part by the number of trained teachers who leave the field each year, due to the current absurd reluctance to flunk those who do not master their required skills, as well the effective ban on expelling morons and troublemakers -- turning this once rewarding profession into the equivalent of lion-taming without the whip and chair. Another approach would be to end the government monopoly over schooling, forgiving parents their school taxes and urging them to use the money to develop competing, private schools. If, in the meantime, the government youth camps do need to offer more incentives to recruit enough wardens, surely the best way to do that would be to free up more actual cash by thinning the ranks of mid-level administrators (who will soon outnumber teachers, if present trends continue) -- not to expand other state bureaucracies in order to provide ever more numerous incentives under the table, where the true cost grows increasingly harder for the taxpayers to measure. Vin Suprynowicz is assistant editorial page editor of the Las Vegas Review-Journal. His book, "Send in the Waco Killers: Essays on the Freedom Movement, 1993-1998," is available by dialing 1-800-244-2224; or via web site http://www.thespiritof76.com/wacokillers.html. *** Vin Suprynowicz, vin@lvrj.com "The evils of tyranny are rarely seen but by him who resists it." -- John Hay, 1872 "The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed -- and thus clamorous to be led to safety -- by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." -- H.L. Mencken * * * To subscribe, send a message to vinsends-request@ezlink.com, from your NEW address, including the word "subscribe" (with no quotation marks) in the "Subject" line. All I ask of electronic subscribers is that they not RE-forward my columns until on or after the embargo date which appears at the top of each, and that (should they then choose to do so) they copy the columns in their entirety, preserving the original attribution. The Vinsends list is maintained by Alan Wendt in Colorado, who may be reached directly at alan@ezlink.com. The web sites for the Suprynowicz column are at http://www.infomagic.com/liberty/vinyard.htm, and http://www.nguworld.com/vindex. The Vinyard is maintained by Michael Voth in Flagstaff, who may be reached directly at mvoth@infomagic.com. [------------------------- end of forwarded message ------------------------] - -- - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- RKBA! ***** Blessings On Thee, Oh Israel! ***** RKBA! - ----------------+----------+--------------------------+--------------------- An _EFFECTIVE_ | Insured | All matter is vibration. | Let he who hath no weapon in every | by COLT; | -- Max Plank | weapon sell his hand = Freedom | DIAL | In the beginning was the | garment and buy a on every side! | 1911-A1. | word. -- The Bible | sword.--Jesus Christ - ----------------+----------+--------------------------+--------------------- Constitutional Government is dead, LONG LIVE THE CONSTITUTION!!!!! - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- - - ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2000 10:57:54 -0700 From: boyd@seanet.com Subject: Re: roc-digest V2 #348 Paul, thanks for the background on Mr. Olson. I kinda wondered ; ) As sincere members of a serious movement we all have to be aware of the tactics of propaganda, wich we can use to get our message out and must guard against to prevent ourselves from be monkeywrenched. What I'm saying here is, we can't just be -rational- we must -appear- rational (and convincing) as well. When we make statements (and or wild claims) we -must- have sources and reasoning that makes those statements believable to the people we're targeting with our message (the middleground citizen). When people fail at this we have to prevent their individual failures from marginalizing our movement (further) in the minds of our target audience, wether those failures are well intended or actual opposition action. Just my .02 - -Boyd Kneeland Paul M Watson wrote: > > Not sure if I can still post., > > About Norm Olson, he is A: A dumb hick , B: A dumb hick who works for the > feds. Anyone remember his Senate Hearing on the Militia movement? I do the > guy screwed the only chance the so called "patriot movement" ever had to > express something other than bunker buddy idiots. All these guys scream > wolf at White trucks from the UN, our own trains doing normal movements of > our own military equipment and hundreds of other cry wolf un-verified > crap. Its know wonder none of these folks were real commissioned officers, > they are grunts and nothing more. There is no oil shortage, there is a > increase in demand vs world supply, not the same thing. > > About not being able to sue a school district, you almost can not sue any > government except for things they by law allow. Even here with our bad > math, and feel good Plano Texas system, there is nothing keeping all the > parents from electing the right people to the school board. Just like you > can not sue for an election electing the person you voted against. The > point is if the good citizens elect a bunch of fools to government who > then pass poor laws for poor products from the school system or any other > area in government it is legal and what we voted for. There is not a > contract with the people for good government with contractual obligations. > Government is a agent of the people who then contracts for them. I have > an issue all the time where people call me wanting a tax exempt number for > my University not to pay taxes. I have to call them and try and explain > that we are the State government and exempt from state and federal taxes > because of the 10th amendment. A tax exempt number is for a not for profit > corporation. There is a contract for limited government called a State and > Federal constitution. Good government only comes with good people elected > to government. > Regards, > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > Paul Watson C.P.M., pwatson@utdallas.edu Senior Buyer UTD > The University of Texas at Dallas > President of ASCC Autism Society of Collin County > ASCC Home Page http://www.autism-ascc.org > These views are mine alone and not any organization > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > > - - - ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 2 Jun 00 20:08:29 PST From: roc@xpresso.seaslug.org (Bill Vance) Subject: Re: WTO Orders Change in US Law (fwd) On inv oralid,, Albert T. Viar wrote: [-------------------- text of forwarded message follows --------------------] Hello Neal, Your current options include joining a militia or, the choice I recommend, is to engage in Leaderless Resistance. Leaderless Resistance does not require anyone to sign up. There can be no communist/government infiltration that way As to how to accomplish anything effective, consider that the only active technique that is viable in the United States at this time is Guerrilla Warfare using the concept of Leaderless Resistance. The movement will grow and open, overt guerrilla warfare will be the order of the day. The enemies of our Constitutional Republic are too well established and we are not organized for direct warfare at this time. The Globalist Greenies and the communist/globalist Traitors in the ranks of federal, state, county and city government are the occupying enemy. We have enemy occupation of the federal Government, the Judicial System, the governments of all the states with just a few good men and women in some of them, and laws without end. Keep in mind that the Law is the way the Communists first take a country. As Frederick Bastiat said, "It is upon the law that the communists depend". From your Leaderless Resistance Ways and Means Committee: ******************** * Basic Demolition * ******************** Cutting steel by the use of explosives: Aside from the natural strength and hardness of the metal, the configuration is often another complicating factor. Cutting a structural steel target such as an I-beam poses no great problem, regardless of the explosive used. There is no difficulty in achieving close contact between the blocks of TNT or tetrytol and the flat surface of the I-beam. Obtaining the same type of close contact, between TNT and a round steel target, requires different methods. Cylindrical steel targets, such as turbine shafts, are not only difficult to cut because of their shape, but the metal employed in their construction is exceptionally hard. To cut a round turbine shaft just one foot in diameter requires a large amount of explosive, using conventional techniques, and results are not always assured. There are two charges that have been designed to cope with this problem, the saddle and the diamond charge. The ribbon charge has been designed to cope with non-cylindrical targets of structural steel. ............. Saddle Charge A saddle charge can be used to cut mild steel cylindrical targets up to eight inches in diameter. Dimensions are as follows: The short base of the charge is equal to one-half the circumference of the target. The length, or long axis of the charge, is equal to twice the base. (conversely, It is equal to the circumference.) Thickness of the charge is one-third block of C3 or C4 for targets from 6 to 8 inches in diameter. Above 8 inches in diameter, or for alloy steel shafts, use the diamond charge. Prime the charge from the apex of the triangle, and the target is cut at a point directly under the short base by cross-fracture. Neither the saddle nor the diamond charge will produce reliable results against hollow targets, such as gun barrels. .............. Diamond charge This charge can be used to cut hard or alloy steel. Dimensions are as follows: The long axis of the diamond charge should equal the circumference of the target, and the points should just touch on the far side. The short axis is equal to 1/2 the circumference. Thickness of the charge is one third thickness of a block of C3 or C4. To prime the charge, both points of the short axis must be primed for simultaneous detonation. This can be accomplished electrically or by use of equal lengths of detonating cord, with a cap crimped on the end that is inserted into the charge. As detonation is initiated, in each point of the diamond, and moves toward the center, the detonating waves meet at the exact center of the charge, are deflected downward, and cut the shaft cleanly at that point. The diamond charge is more time consuming to construct, and requires more care and more materials to prime. Transferring the charge dimensions to a template of cardboard or cloth permits relatively easy charge construction (working directly on the target is difficult). The completed wrapped charge is then transferred to the target and taped or tied in place, insuring that maximum close contact is achieved. The template technique should be used for both the saddle and diamond charges. ............. Ribbon Charge To cut non-cylindrical steel targets the ribbon charge produces excellent results and is economic. Dimensions are as follows: The thickness of the charge is equal to the thickness of the target to be cut. Note: Never construct a charge less than 1/2 inch thick. Width of the ribbon is equal to twice the thickness of the target. Length of the charge is equal to the length of the desired cut. Prime from an end, and for relatively thin charges, build up the end to be primed. Build up corners if the charge is designed to cut a target such as an I-beam. Tamping is unnecessary with the ribbon charge. A frame can be constructed out of stiff cardboard or plywood to give rigidity to the charge and to facilitate handling, carrying and emplacing it. The ribbon charge is effective only against targets up to two inches thick, which accounts for the greater majority of flat steel targets likely to be encountered. .............. Platter Charge The platter charge has been developed to breach volatile fuel containers and ignite their contents from distances up to fifty yards. The platter charge can also be employed to destroy small electrical transformers or other "soft" targets, from a distance. Platters do not have to be round or concave, although a round or concave platter is undoubtedly best. The concave side of the platter faces the target, and the explosive is molded to the center reverse side. Flat, square, or rectangular platters are permissible, with steel being the best material. Platter size preferably should be between 2 to 6 pounds, and the weight of explosive should approximately equal platter weight. The explosive should be uniformly packed behind the platter and it must be primed from exact rear center. Build up the C4 in the center of the charge if necessary to insure detonation. A container for the explosive is unnecessary for the platter charge, as long as some way is found to hold the explosive firmly to the platter. Tape is acceptable. The platter range is about 50 yards, depending primarily on the size of the target to be attacked. Practice helps. ............. Shaped Charge The angle of the cavity of an improvised shaped charge should be between 30 and 60 degrees. Standoff should be from one to two times the diameter of the cone. Height of the explosive, measured from the base of the cone, should be twice the height of the cone. Exact center tamping and priming of the plastic explosive is important. Experimentation to determine the optimum stand-off for your version is stressed. Due to the many variables involved, such as explosive density and both density and configuration of the cavity liners, accurate reproducible results are almost impossible to obtain. A point worth mentioning in preparing hollow-bottomed bottles for shaped-charge use is to hold the bottle upright when burning the string soaked with gasoline, which is wrapped around the bottle at the desired break-pount. As the flame goes out, submerge the bottle, neck first, in water. If done well, the bottle will break cleanly where the string was burned. Hemispherical cavities will produce more surface damage on the target, but less penetration. A true cone with an angle of about 45 degrees will produce more penetration, which is the most desired result. Melting TNT in a double-boiler will produce an explosive loading of excellent density. Liquid explosive has the advantage of even density. Military Dynamite can be used if better explosive is unavailable, with reduced yield. It will penetrate mild steel targets up to two inches in thickness. ................ Cratering charge Ammonium nitrate (AN) fertilizer is a material that is readily available in many parts of the world. With Ammonium Nitrate we have the ability to tailor make cratering charges to fit our needs. A rule of thumb for an improvised cratering charge is as follows: To each 50 pounds of ammonium nitrate fertilizer, which has beeen ground to produce fresh surfaces to circumvent government mandated coating of the prilled fertilizer, should be the prilled or pellitized variety, add about one gallon of diesel fuel, motor oil, or gasoline. Used oil will work. Allow the charge to soak for one hour, prime with one pound of TNT or a stick of 60 dynamite, or its equivalent,tamp well in a suitable borehole, and detonate. Do not allow the AN to become wet with water. The Ammonium Nitrate may be bagged for utility. A 40 pound charge of AN will produce a nice crater. ............................... Ammonium Nitrate Satchel Charge While the cratering charge is a good one, it is only suitable for cratering. A more versatile charge can be made from AN, using wax as the second ingredient rather than oil. The procedure for making this charge is merely to melt ordinary paraffin and stir in AN pellets, insuring that the wax is thoroughly mixed with the AN while still hot. Before the mixture hardens, add a 1/2 pound block of TNT or its equivalent as a primer. A #10 can makes a good container for this charge. The addition of shrapnel and a handle to the exterior of the charge makes an excellent satchel charge or booby trap. Suitably sealed, this device will keep well and will not draw moisture. ................................... RDX (A Plastic Explosive Component) To about one gallon of strong formaldehyde solution,(35-40%, add an excess (about two gallons) of concentrated aqueous ammonia, M(28%) (48% ammonia water), let sit for half an hour, and evaporate to dryness on a water or steam bath. The white solid which is left is: Hexamethylenetetramine. With a chilled mixture of concentrated sulfuric and nitric acids, nitrate this compound. Pour the entire mix into cold water. This fragments the molecules of the nitrated compound. Wash with water until litmus shows no acid. This compound of various notrated molecules is RDX. It is a powerful explosive and when mixed with a suitable texturizer and adhesive materials makes a good plastic explosive. RDX is the explosive material in C3 and C4. RDX should not be stored in pure form. Mixing RDX with another high explosive increases the stability of RDX in storage and handling. .......... TNT manufacture The first lab procedure is to make the proper acid concentrations. In one beaker, the percentages used are: 76% sulphuric, 23% nitric, and 1% water. In another beaker, the acid mixture is: 57% nitric and 43% sulphuric (H2SO4). The other steps used will be listed numerically. It is proper to prepare a good amount of the acid mixtures, and remember to use weight percentages, and not volume. 1. The ice water cooling method is set up. Ten grams of the first acid mixture is poured into an empty beaker, which is set in the ice water. 2. Ten grams of toluene is then added to this beaker, and stirred for five minutes. 3. This beaker is then taken out of the ice water and gently heated to fifty degrees centigrade. This mixture is also stirred while it is being heated. 4. Fifty more grams of the first acid mix are added, and the temperature is increased to 55 degrees centigrade. This 55 degree temperature is kept for the next ten minutes after the additional acid has been added. An oily liquid will begin to form on top of the acid in this beaker. 5. After the ten minutes, the beaker is placed back in the ice water, and cooled down to 45 degrees C. The oily liquid is allowed to settle to the bottom of the beaker. The acid remaining, is drawn off by means of a syringe. 6. The oily liquid is kept at the 45 degree temperature, and 50 more grams of the first acid mixture is added, while slowly increasing the temperature to 83 degrees C. It is important to increase the temperature slowly. After the 83 degree temperature is reached, it is maintained for thirty minutes. 7. After the thirty minutes, the mixture is cooled down to 60 degrees C. and allowed to settle at this temperature for another half hour. The acids are again removed. 8. The beaker of oily liquid is again heated and thirty grams of sulfuric acid is added. The temperature is slowly raised to 80 degrees C. 9. Thirty grams of the second acid mixture is now added, while the temperature is increased from 80 degrees C. to 104 degrees C., and maintained for three hours. 10. After the three hour period, the mix is lowered to 100 degrees C. for thirty minutes. The oil is then removed from the acids, and thoroughly washed with boiling water. 11. After the boiling treatment, while constantly being stirred, the TNT will begin to solidify. 12. The TNT is then boiled in fresh water containing a small amount of sodium bicarbonate. Wash as many times as necessary to achieve a neutral condition as shown by the litmus test. 13. After suitable washing and as it cools, the TNT will start to solidify. Add cold water so it will solidify in pellet form. 14. TNT may be melted and cast into containers for bursting charges or cast into blocks for booster charges for ammonium nitrate explosives. Caution: TNT is toxic in all its forms and can be readily absorbed through the skin. Acute liver failure can occur with TNT poisoning. ............. Blasting Caps Mercury fulminate, Hg(ONC)2, is prepared by dissolving pure mercury into nitric acid of specific gravity 1.42. A small amount may be prepared by poring 5 grams of mercury into 35 ml. of nitric acid. The mixture is then heated slowly. It will bubble, and turn green, as the mercury is dissolved. It is then poured into a small flask of ethyl alcohol. The flask will then begin to give off red fumes. Use a suitable ventilation hood. In about half an hour, or sooner, white fumes will appear, indicating that the reaction is nearing its final phase. After a five minute wait, distilled water is added, and the whole mix filtered, to obtain the white precipitate crystals. The white crystals are the mercury fulminate, and should be washed repeatedly, until no acid is present, as indicated by litmus. Another method of mercury fulminate production is to mix mercuric oxide and ammonia solution. This is done in a weight ratio of 10 parts of ammonia solution to every part of mercuric oxide used. In about ten days, mercuric oxide will react with ammonia solution to produce the white fulminate crystals. These crystals must be filtered and washed as before. .................. God Bless, Albert T. Viar Editor of The Adams County Patriot's League hodag3@rnet.com - ---------- > Good question. While we weren't looking our laws and our Constitution were > usurped it seems and now > tyrants encroach on our liberties with their new forms of slavery. Why isn't > the military defending > this nation? 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