"Tim W" wrote in message
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Rick Hughes
wibbled on Tuesday 20 October 2009 12:31

There is/was an active usenet group that gives all the necessary details
on making any fireworks ...
rec . pyrotechnics

not been on group for a while - so un sure if thought police have closed
this down.

Looks alive and well. Not sure how the UK police could close down an
international USENET group, nor how they could justify trying, as
pyrotechnics isn't illegal in of itself.




I didn't actually say UK Police .........

BTW ... Governments can ban things when they want to, all they would have to
do is prove that home made explosives are being made as a result of data on
the group and they could shut it down using anti-terrorist laws.
rec.pyrotechnics used to frequently point to hosting sites for TBBOM and
PMJB and the Anarchists Cookbook, all documents that are public domain, but
severely frowned upon by people in government.

They don't like seeing the recipies contained in them ... now many people on
rec.pyrotechnics used to make PE4, Naplam, Nitro, TNT etc.


China simply didn't want external internet sites accessed by it's citizens
... and successfully had them closed down to China .... so you can shut
international sites.

I am not advocating any of this .. just aware of realities.