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Title: huge bomb stash found, not in news
Post by: aldo_14 on October 10, 2006, 05:33:05 am
http://www.burnleycitizen.co.uk/news/newsheadlines/display.var.951775.0.exbnp_man_faces_explosives_charge.php
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A FORMER British National Party member has been accused of possessing the largest amount of chemical explosives of its type ever found in the country.

Robert Cottage, 49, of Talbot Street, Colne, appeared before Burnley magistrates charged with possession of an explosive substance.

Oh, and
http://www.nwemail.co.uk/news/viewarticle.aspx?id=420965
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A RETIRED Grange dentist is accused of being part of a bomb plot after a record number of explosives were seized in a Lancashire town.  David Bolais Jackson, 62, of Trent Road, Nelson, was arrested on Friday in the Lancaster area after leaving his Grange practice for the last time.

Jackson was charged with being in possession of an explosive substance for an unlawful purpose. However, it is unclear who or what the intended target might have been.  Police found rocket launchers, chemicals, British National Party literature and a nuclear or biological suit at his home.

On the other hand, the German Jelly Crisis (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/6035821.stm) has made the news.
Title: Re: huge bomb stash found, not in news
Post by: Colonol Dekker on October 10, 2006, 06:09:13 am
Curses, My Jelly plot failed............... :mad:

Whoever sold me that stuff will feel my custard wrath !
Title: Re: huge bomb stash found, not in news
Post by: Prophet on October 10, 2006, 06:16:37 am
Who knows what those explosives were for? Maybe he was going to blow some rocks off his potato field. Or meybe he just gets kicks of having closets full of explosives. But nooo. It must have been for murder. Or blowing up the ****ing Big Ben. :rolleyes:
Title: Re: huge bomb stash found, not in news
Post by: Kosh on October 10, 2006, 07:02:53 am
So, if those people were muslim or from the middle east, that would have been front page headlines, right?
Title: Re: huge bomb stash found, not in news
Post by: aldo_14 on October 10, 2006, 07:54:37 am
So, if those people were muslim or from the middle east, that would have been front page headlines, right?

Absolutely.

Who knows what those explosives were for? Maybe he was going to blow some rocks off his potato field. Or meybe he just gets kicks of having closets full of explosives. But nooo. It must have been for murder. Or blowing up the ****ing Big Ben. :rolleyes:

Did you actually read the article?
Title: Re: huge bomb stash found, not in news
Post by: Flipside on October 10, 2006, 03:46:54 pm
Actually, the trick is to set off an explosion and keep very quiet. It's obvious who will get blamed.

Makes you wonder whether that was the plan?
Title: Re: huge bomb stash found, not in news
Post by: Bobboau on October 10, 2006, 05:09:13 pm
now here is the irony, I bet if this had been a muslim we'd be hearing all about how it didn't prove anything and how his rights were violated, but because he's assosiated with a groupe that is conservitive, he must be guilty.
Title: Re: huge bomb stash found, not in news
Post by: Flipside on October 10, 2006, 05:34:36 pm
Well, it's an interesting point, but the reaction here is more often an assumption that the person found with explosives is guilty, no matter what colour they are, maybe that's a rollover effect from the IRA here.

The annoying part is that Terrorism is Terrorism, it shouldn't matter who the person is affiliated with, either we treat it as such or we don't.

I'm frankly amazed that the National Press isn't all over this, it's perfect front-page material in many ways, you'd get to put the words 'Terrorist', 'Bomb', 'Nazi' and 'BNP' in a single paragraph, they'd be drooling over the keyboard, I would have thought.
Title: Re: huge bomb stash found, not in news
Post by: NGTM-1R on October 10, 2006, 06:01:38 pm
Though it seems doubtful, perhaps it slipped through the cracks.
Title: Re: huge bomb stash found, not in news
Post by: Grug on October 10, 2006, 07:00:08 pm
Strange. Why don't you contact them and find out why they didn't?
Title: Re: huge bomb stash found, not in news
Post by: aldo_14 on October 11, 2006, 02:42:59 am
now here is the irony, I bet if this had been a muslim we'd be hearing all about how it didn't prove anything and how his rights were violated (snip)

It'd be the first time.

Incidentally, I wasn't aware the 'conservative' political group now included white supremacists.  Someone should tell David Cameron, he's missing a vital pandering demographic.
Title: Re: huge bomb stash found, not in news
Post by: karajorma on October 11, 2006, 08:21:42 am
I'm sure Micheal Howard has already done a good job bringing them into the fold.
Title: Re: huge bomb stash found, not in news
Post by: Kazan on October 11, 2006, 09:29:31 am
Incidentally, I wasn't aware the 'conservative' political group now included white supremacists. 

in the states it does
Title: Re: huge bomb stash found, not in news
Post by: Nuclear1 on October 11, 2006, 06:47:26 pm
Incidentally, I wasn't aware the 'conservative' political group now included white supremacists. 

in the states it does

Conservatism is conservatism.  Extreme conservatism includes neo-Nazi and white supremacist groups in Europe and the US, not just the US.  Kaz, if you're using this as another chance to take a shot at the apparently widespread bigoted US Christians, I would advise against it--it really does get old after a while.  Maybe a little less pathos and more logos?
Title: Re: huge bomb stash found, not in news
Post by: NGTM-1R on October 12, 2006, 09:52:46 am
To say Kaz has pathos at all is kind of a base canard.
Title: Re: huge bomb stash found, not in news
Post by: Nuclear1 on October 12, 2006, 07:22:58 pm
Well, pathos in the sense of making obviously impassioned statements or one-liners that are certain to be construed by his opposition as unprofessional, childlike stabs (i.e, many comments in the Sulu thread).