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[Ian G Batten]

On 14 Jun 2006, at 10:46, Owen Lewis wrote:
>
> So I was once authoritatively informed, the oldest anti-terrorist
> (anti-Fenian) legislation on the Statute Book of England and Wales  
> is the
> Explosive Substances Act of 1884.
>
> This has some relevance the current discussion of RIPA provisions.  
> ESA 1884
> was introduced as a measure to criminalise acts (possession or use of
> explosives to endanger lives) preliminary to the commission of  
> terrorist
> acts (the taking of lives). Thus the authorities could move pre- 
> emptively
> against known Fenians simply on the basis of possession of  
> explosives. n
> those days, it was seen as every good Englishman's God-given right  
> to make,
> possess and use explosives if he wished to do and without causing  
> harm to
> his neighbours. These days, the Act is applied to all, preventing the
> manufacturing, possession or use of explosives without a licence.  
> Most here,
> I think, would see the present view as a correct one and not as  
> oppressive.

There have been several interesting analyses of the practicality of  
building chemical weapons, most recently in http:// 
www.theregister.co.uk/2006/06/04/chemical_bioterror_analysis/.  `Ah,  
Tokyo, Sarin' has been used as a story to frighten children, and the  
analyses show that the Japanese terrorists benefitted from vast  
resources and a lax legal environment.   I'm most interested by the  
statement in El Reg's article that `In addition it benefited from the  
frankly inexplicable Japanese security climate of the time, which  
left the cult free to do dangerous and scary things, to purchase and  
stockpile ingredients and equipment and even to conduct live tests of  
distribution mechanisms on real victims.'  The implication was that  
possessing Sarin or Sarin precursors wasn't an offence.  What's the  
situation in the UK now?

ian