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Raisethefist.com Update
d33l0w3 writes: "It looks like Sherman Austin is off the hook for now. For those of you who missed the previous slashdot posting, Sherman was arrested on Feb. 2 for the contents of his website raisethefist.com. This comes as more of a surprise than the FBI raid on his house." Just a couple of days ago, the government was planning to transfer him to California to face charges there, but now according to Newsbytes, those have been dropped. Read that link I just gave - there's quite a lot of interesting information that came out during the hearing. The attorney's concern about Austin being jacked around in "detention" for an indefinite period of time says a great deal about our judicial system.
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>12 MR. HOU: There were two Molotov cocktails that were in various states of finality. There was one which actually had the wick in it, I understand, from the FBI agent, and it was tested. The materials were tested to determine what was inside, and it was later determined -- the FBI determined that it did contain petroleum products.
Note that they don't specify which petroleum products were used.
With a name like "raisethefist", it could have been "petroleum jelly". Exactly what that petroleum product would be doing on a bottle is left as an exercise for the goatse.cx guy.
So he (ahem :) got off. He's still a skr1pt k1dd13. A lucky skr1pt k1dd13, probably the luckiest skr1pt k1dd13 on the planet, and a hell of a lot luckier than he has any right to be. But a skr1pt k1dd13 nonetheless.
Doesn't the fact that his website was advocating the use violence in overthrowing the government pretty much satisfy the intent question? As in "Overthrow the government by violent means! And here's how to make bombs."
I wonder if you could point me to that portion of the U.S. Code? Then we'd finally have a way to unseat that idiot from Texas!
microsoftword.mp3 - it doesn't care that they're not words...
Ok I think I got it.
He was going to take his "no ID" and use it to pry open the door to some building. Then he was going to disassemble the gas mask and take out the activated charcoal and pile it neatly in the basement. he was then going to carefully place the rubber part of the mask on top of the charcoal. Next he was going to make a long wick by tearing his black mask into strips. Standing from a now safe distance he was going to light his mask wick with his lighter and run like hell before the ensuing explosion brought down the entire building and maybe even some adjacent buildings.
Lucky they caught him who knows how many people he could have killed with those masks and that lighter.
War is necrophilia.