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The New Bomb Makers:
Another Sensational Treatment of Domestic Bombers
By Kurt Saxon
Well, the media has done it again. On March 16, A&E's Bill Curtis'
Investigative Reports bombed with an inaccurate and rather stupid expose of me. There have
been several treatments of the subject. All aim at sensationalism but miss at accuracy.
This doesn't matter as accuracy is not the goal. The idea is to present a sensational
subject to raise ratings and attract advertisers. And what could be more sensational than
bombs, especially if teenagers can be involved. Of course, their thinly veiled sources for
instruction manuals and the makings indicate irresponsibility on the part of the media.
Ordinarily, there would be a public outcry against the actual glamorizing of improvised
weaponry and its easy availability. The complaint would be that teenagers would be
attracted to the field and possibly even psychotics.
Knowing this, the producers build their programs around a scapegoat, usually me. In
exposing me as a heartless profiteer, corrupting the young and feeding the dangerous
fantasies of the psychotic, they promote a dangerous attractive nuisance as a necessary
public service.
My willingness to be used in such a manner is often questioned. I can only say the
producers are so nice and do so want my help and expertise. They promise not to smear me.
Will I ever learn? I'm like Charlie Brown when Lucy says she won't jerk the football away.
Bill Curtis' Investigative Reports did leave my best interview lines in and, without the
narration, presented me as an intelligent and decent sort, which I am. The narration,
however, presented me as just the opposite; sinister and thoroughly malicious and evil.
But whoever wrote the narration made Bill Curtis look like the king of fools. For such a
prestigious program hosted by a popular figure in the field of journalism, the narration
was an insult. Even though he is not expected to check out everything his researchers come
up with, this piece shows him to be a fraud. Anyone knowing the facts behind the piece
could not help believing Curtis just rattles off anything handed to him.
For instance, they have him saying of my sleepy little Bible Belt community, "Alpena,
Arkansas thrives on staunch individualism; individuals arming themselves with bombs".
There are no Militia idiots here. There is nothing militant about this farming community.
The last thing anyone here would think about would be the violation of any law. As for
individualism, conformity is the rule.
The narration went on to describe my basement as a "bomb lab". It isn't. I
haven't made a bomb in years. To make a bomb is a Federal offense, a felony. to describe
my basement as a "bomb lab" is to publicly accuse me of committing a felony; of
being a felon.
When I told this to the lady who did the interview, she said that calling my basement a
"bomb lab" did not necessarily mean I had made a bomb there. If my basement had
been described as a "drug lab" could anyone say it did not mean drugs had been
made there? Nonsense!
Immediately following the spot about my basement, self-described "Terrorism
expert", Neil Livingstone reinforces the impression by saying, "These things are
killing children, they're killing firemen, they're killing policemen, all across the
country." He is saying this is the result of my material. This was his chance to show
one case of a child, a fireman or a policeman killed because someone read my material and
built a bomb. He did not show one instance because there wasn't one.
The program describes Livingstone as "one of Washington's leading authorities on
terrorism". It goes on to say, "Livingstone has long tracked the bombs of Kurt
Saxon. This gives the audience the distinct and unavoidable impression that numerous bombs
have been made and used by me and/or my readers. In point of fact, the only two bombs I
have ever made in all my 64 years, the light bulb gas bomb and the milk carton gas bomb
were made for the tapes and were exploded harmlessly, thus removing their designation as
destructive devices.
I suspect Livingstone has been using me for many years. I think he has been waving my
books under the noses of prospective clients as an example of the dangers their firms face
without his "expertise".
Moreover, there is the real possibility that he has taken advantage of every opportunity
to divert blame from his own incitement to terrorism to my books. Sort of like the pot
calling the kettle black.
The Poor Man's James Bond tells how to make improvised weapons. It targets no one. In the
24 years of its publication there has not been one instance of a teenager using its
instructions to harm anyone or one psychotic to murder anyone. How do I know this? This
program and nearly all the others had interviews of bomb squad personnel. They all
denounce books on the subject and say they have found such books in the homes of people up
to no good. However, when pressed by the interviewers, they will not say my books have
been found in the homes of anyone who has actually committed violence as a result of the
information in my books.
But whereas my books target no one and actually discourage violence, what of Livingstone's
book, "The War On Terrorism"? It does target. Any miserable nothing can get a
description of his acts on TV by following Neil's instructions.
Any "wanna be" terrorist, by reading Neil's book can learn how to easily bring a
system to its knees. If you are interested in how a terrorist works, or want to be one,
you can't do better than to read what I describe as "The Complete Terrorist", or
"The Terrorist's Bible", Neil Livingstone's own "The War Against
Terrorism", published by Lexington Books. Order it through your local book store.
To end this article and to put a cap on Neil's foolishness, the program shows him holding
up a book and saying, "Or how about this, going one step further, this is Kurt
Saxon's latest, 'The Poor Man's Nuculer Bomb'. (It's pronounced nuclea r,
Neil.) He is holding the book in his hand and saying it is mine. The first I ever heard of
it was after the program aired and people were calling me to order it. He did not have
sense enough to look and see who actually wrote it.
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