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You can make bombs from it, but why can't this report say what exact chemicals were found.

and I will leave it at that. Reminds me of the good ol' WMD threads in Usenet before Gulf War II, those Republicans were scared to no end. until some of us pointed out just how many potential nastiness could happen.

What I find curious is the Occupy Doctor in the headline.

I took her around my yard and pointed out just how many poisonous plants I had in my garden that are common ornamentals in most people's gardens.

Oleanders growing outside her door
Soon they're gonna be in bloom
Up in Annandale
I can't stand her
Doing what she did before
Living like a gypsy queen
In a fairy tale
Well I hear the whistle but I can't go
I'm gonna take her down to Mexico
She said oh no
Guadalajara won't do

Since I live in California, and we don't get a whole lot of year round rain, they are very hardy during the dry season and have really pretty flowers and they are evergreen. They are a really nice ornamental shrub. Also, garden pests know they are poisonous so they leave them alone. They are one of a few plants that every part is poisonous, the roots, the stems, the leaves, the flowers and the seeds.

and so many more plants.

Mother Nature's own poison factories.

Two curious parrots.

My garden is full of birds. They know what can be eaten and want isn't good. Only man made poisons for garden pests can fool them, especially if they eat bugs or snails that have eaten pest control poisons, so I don't use anything toxic in my garden. The deer who are very fond of my roses know to never go near the Oleander, fox gloves and the night shades.

It s actually a concern.

comfortable with.

There are indoor plants I won't allow in the house, like dracaena, because it's so toxic. With two cats and two dogs, it's too risky.

and children. The people at the nursery usually know which is which. I like to keep orchids indoors and my cat just ignores them other than batting the drooping ones with his paw every now and then.

$17 / gallon at Home Depot.

It is used with hydrogen peroxide to make triacetone triperoxide.

http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/munitions/tatp.htm

Everyone has bleach in various forms throughout their house and medicine cabinet. Really? I mean if there was a sort of bomb assembled, and then there were the chemicals in the same area, then I would worry.

at the hardware store. Actually I think I got some for getting varnish out of some brushes. Acetone even in pure form is a normal household product one might have for taking out paint, varnish, certain glues and stuff like that. I had no idea there were so many different kinds and mixtures of removers until I went to the hardware store looking for something to clean those brushes. I always thought paint remover was just one type of average stuff, but there's sooooo many different types of solvents for so many different things.

I would guess they could tell if the purpose was for bomb making if he had large quantities of stuff and especially all in the same area and all of them for bomb making.

Probably you too. I have acetone, used to remove nail polish and great if you stick fingers with super glue...I got hydrogen peroxide in my first aid kit.

I know it is the quantities.

There are a few other things under your sink that have potential. PSA, a few household cleaners, when accidentally (most of the time) mixed, could prove deadly, and become a wonderful hazmat situation...and don't get me started with what is sold to kill bugs.

and the catalyst for epoxy is a peroxide ...

Not just chemical fertilizer.

That headline is PR gold for TPTB.

This picture is apparently of an accident involving a substance common in millions of homes in the US.

pretty much would know what could be used.

But, for a WMD grade threat Kimchee and Beer is devastating.

The police reported to the newspapers that they found explosives, a baptismal font, and restraining devices for children on the premises.

What they actually found was legal firecrackers (the 4th of July was just around the corner), a kiddie pool for their two young children and one of those bouncy seats you put your kids into (it has straps so they don't fall out).

From that I learned to have a great deal of healthy skepticism about reports of 'explosives', bomb making material, and so forth. Until specifics are offered.

Clearly a Rovian plot.

With all those chemicals it must surely smell of something.

As I was reading through here I was hoping some one would say something! I don't like the how little info there is on this.

bleach and other stuff used around the home. I would only be suspicious if there was also the hardware around to assemble a bomb. This so stinks of witch hunt to me.

under what or WHOS aegis a warrant ...if there was one...was sworn out for this doctors home?

Oh yes yes the f)*&)(*& patriot act is such a good thing isint it...it will NEVER be used against us....

who just want to trash the Occupy Movement like it's gospel truth. Even when stuff like this is debunked like by Snopes for instance, the damage has been done already. They said the Doctor wasn't employed, but he was sixty years old and maybe retired. You know the devil is in the details.

Idiots.

Corn syrup, mothballs and ammonia.

Movement. He's automatically disqualified. Sounds more like he belongs to some branch of the US Government who make bombs all the time AND they use them, which no one seems to care about.

That should be obvious considering how clear it has been made that Occupy is a non-violent movement. Dumb article, dumb headline.

More nonsense to try to discredit a Social Justice Movment which will only be successful with those who hate it anyway.

to be honest, after all we all have precursor agents at home... I am serious as a heart attack.

What can I say?

And if for whatever reason he was... the occupy part is not what matters here.

Edward Abbey lives!

Everyone in this thread has bomb making chemicals in their house. The word "precursor" is important: If he'd made anything remotely resembling a bomb, had instructions to make a bomb, or had spoken of making a bomb, they wouldn't have said precursors.

The "bomb making chemicals" could have been certain kinds of fertilizer, methanol, ethanol, diesel, gasoline, or a whole bunch of other stuff.*

So I think I'll wait for some actual evidence before I insist the Occupy movement is full of terrorists. Though I do note the glee the usual suspects are taking in this.

attack were fuel filled airplanes. There was nothing exotic here. This is nothing more than a witch hunt meant to discredit Occupy.