News: London nailbomber used the Net

[Quentin Campbell]

On Wed, 7 Jun 2000, Ian BROWN wrote:

> Subject: Re: News: London nailbomber used the Net
> 
> From reading stories in the Times and Guardian, it seemed to me that
> the only government action that might be needed was on fireworks. (The
> nailbomber used the explosives from massive quantities of fireworks he
> had very unsubtly bought).

If the government is to act consistently on the issues raised by this case
then they should perhaps be censoring TV and the papers as well because
the nail-bomber claims he was inspired to commit the acts he did by the
news reports of the nail bomb attack during the Atlanta Olympics.


Quentin
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