CITY OF TERROR How to terrorize a city and bring it to its knees! by John Lundgren, Anaheim, California jlundgre@delta1.deltanet.com 1.0 Why do it? 2.0 Levels of Action 2.1 Minor Remote Disruptions 2.2 Monkey Warfare 2.3 Destruction 3.0 Targets and Targetting 3.1 Visible targets 3.2 Transportation 3.3 Electricity 3.4 Water 3.5 Natural Gas 4.0 Getting Attention and Avoiding Attention ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 1.0 Why do it? You're are as angry as hell! Your money is being stolen from you by governments to support corrupt politicians who purchased overpriced goods and services from their business friends' and campaign contributors' companies. Your tax dollars go to special programs that benefit others or provide subsidies to certain special interest groups or industries, to your detriment. Society and government are inordinately influenced by large business; large businesses who are reaping larger and larger profits while laying off more and more of their workforces. Banks or landlords are keeping you enslaved with outrageously high mortgage rates that keep you paying and paying, or high rents that keep on going up though service and the building continues to deteriorate while eating up most of your salary. You continue to see you have less and less of a future. Your future is being stolen away from you by corrupt politicians and special interest groups. Cities that continue to decay while others get rich through their lack of morals, while you are told you have to sacrifice more and more for the "good of society". You spend years doing what you have been told you would be rewarded for: being honest and working hard. And then you find after years of sacrifice you find you have been discarded, tossed away like some used Kleenex, by those who made all those false promises to you in the first place. You spent all your life living a lie, and in believing all the lies you were fed on a daily basis. Colleges and Universities only help to propagate these lies and teach people to maintain the status quo. You believed in the system but once you started questioning it you thought you could change it from within, only to find that you paid a high price for questioning anything; especially those things that most obviously needed to be questioned. Our society doesn't work. The criminals, the liars, the cheats, the backstabbers, the plagiarists, they reap all the rewards, and the honest hardworking people end up with nothing. Our society is like a cesspool with the scum rising to the top! These are just some of the very good reasons why you are angry. You don't know what to do. You want to change things. You want to make a statement. You want to bring the rich leaches and lying institutions to their knees yet you don't know what just one person can do. Well even one person can bring a whole city to its knees! ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 2.0 Levels of Action We all have different commitments to a cause. We have different abilities and restrictions. We all have different motivations. We have different moral beliefs. We all have different goals. Because of this we all have different limits to how far we will go to attain our goal whatever they may be. You may just want to cause disruption of society through remote means such as telephone calls or letters, or you may want to cause other minor disruptions through monkey warfare. Or you may decide that to get results you will have to cause damage to property, or even commit acts that could lead to injury of some of the scum of the world. 2.1 Minor Remote Disruptions Minor remote disruptions are usually just letters or phone calls. As always, your first priority will be to keeping your anonymity. One of the best ways to divert attention is to pick two different targets who are adversaries and then make a call or write a threatening letter to one while trying to imply you are from their adversary. You may need to do a bit a research on the groups to do this well but it is well worth it because you will be killing two birds with one stone. An example would be that if you wanted to get a Croatian organization, you would want them to think it was a Serbian who did it. In most parts of the World there are groups who seem similar to an outsider but who are the worst of enemies, like Indian Sihks, Hindu's and Mulsim, or people from India versus Pakistan, etc. How would your local office of the Knights of the Klu Klux Klan like getting calls from someone with a (fake) accent who has purposely "slipped" clues that he is from the Black Separatist group the Nation of Islam? You could put up posters against a group. Even better, if you want to attack a group put up posters for them but ones that are so extremist that nobody could ever agree with them. Talk about how evil their opponents are and how they should be murdered! My favorite technique for posters is to put them on thin paper and to use Spray Photo Mount (this is spray glue used to attach photographs into a portfolio, be sure to get the "Permanent" type and not the temporary type,) spray the back of the poster and stick it down whereever you want. If it is a smooth surface, it is even better to spray both the surface you want to attach it to and the back of the poster then stick the poster down and rub it down. Using this technique it will be so permanently attached that if it is on a window they will need a paint scrapper to slowly get it off. You can even spray on the front surface of the poster instead of the back and stick it on a window so that you can see it through the window. Spray Photo Mount is available from most Art or photography supply stores, and is made by companies like 3M. You can also make bomb threats. In the United States, 98% of all bomb threats are false. You could have various reasons for wanting to make a Bomb Threat: - you might not have left any devices but just want to disrupt exams, ceremonies, seminars, etc. This is often not very effective unless you have planted a fake device. A suspicious looking package or bag, preferably set up so that the contents can not be viewed, or if it can be viewed, containing a pipe full or sand or other matter to weigh it down. It must look like it could contain a real bomb. - you have left a device but you only want to damage property and not cause any personal injuries to anyone - you want the device to be found so that there is neither any property damage nor injuries, as you only want to get media attention for a cause, or to scare any people from that company, institution or site. There are two primary methods of making a bomb threat: in writing and by telephone. When making a bomb threat in writing there are several concerns: - Never leave any fingerprints on anything! (Not even the postage stamp) - Do not leave traces of your saliva for DNA analysis, by licking either the envelope shut or the stamp; use water. - Get common stationary available anywhere in North America Buy your supplies from chain stores/franchises such as 7-11, K-Mart or Wal-Mart. - Do not use this stationary for any other purpose and use "fresh" stationary. The police will look for imprints from your writing onto another piece of paper that was on top of this one. Don't give them any legitimate clues - If writing or printing your threat, do it in a writing style different from your own. Do not use typewriters as they can help the police reduce the possible number of suspects as different models have different type styles, and with age and wear, your particular typewriter might have an identifiable peculiarity. Computer printers are so common, they are not tracable but will still make the perpetrator someone who has access to one, thereby making the police's job a little bit easier, though not much. - Mail it from a letter box a very good distance from where you are living. Why give any clues with the Post Office Stamp Cancellation Mark (the thing that dates when the letter was sent, and which sorting station it went to). - Send it to a media outlet (or maybe to your target), but do NOT send it directly to the police. If you don't send it, to a media outlet (or even better to both a newspaper and a television station), it will probably Never will become public knowledge. Also if it is not sent to the police, a lot more people will have handled it, making it practically useless for forensic purposes. When making a threat by telephone you should follow these guidelines so as not to leave any useful clues: - Do not use any telephone you would normally use. It is even better if you can use a phone that is far away (many miles) from where you would normally call from. Payphones are best - If you are familiar with Phone Phreaking, use a diverter or similar system to make it even harder for the authorities to track down where the call originated from - Do NOT leave any fingerprints on the phone nor anywhere near it - NEVER CALL THE POLICE! - Rehearse carefully what you intend on saying and on what information you intend on giving out. Do not give any more information than you intended. Do you want them to know who or what the target is? Where is the bomb? When or how will it go off? Why you want them to think it was planted or mailed, (you don't have to tell them the truth)? You are in control, and you will decide what information they will or won't get. If you make any minor excursions from what you planned don't worry about it, just as long as they are minor - If possible, try not to be seen at the telephone, and wear a disguise to, at and when leaving the telephone. A hooded top, hats/caps, sunglasses, extra clothing to make you look larger, are all useful. If you have driven to the telephone make sure you have parked a good distance away so that your license number can not be connected to the person who was at that telephone making the call. - Assume you may be recorded. - Disguise your voice. The police will ask whoever got the message what your voice sounded like: ù was it shrill or hoarse ù did the person sound in control or agitated ù were they young or old sounding ù did they have any noticable accent ù did they seem to have any speech impediment? A well done fake accent can throw everybody off the track - Keep your message short and simple. Don't let them keep you on the line. Tell them what you have to say and don't answer their questions. - Preferably, tell your message to the first person you get on the line. Don't let them transfer you to ANYBODY as it will probably be somebody familiar with such calls, and they will likely be tape-recording the call, taking notes, or have security personel on the line with them. - The police will ask about any background noises the receiver of the call heard, so provide your own FALSE ones. Take a portable tape player (with speaker) with you to provide the false clues. You could have recorded music, traffic noises, a subway rush-hour crowd, children playing in a school yard, it just has to be loud enough to drown out any real background noises that could be a clue as to where you were calling from, and yet not so loud as to completely drown out your message. The background noise will also distract the listener, so they are less likely to note characteristics of your disguised voice. Why give the police ANY real clues? Erase the tape when you are finished with it. - Electronic voice disguising equipment will solve all your disguise problems, but if found in your possession at any time can also help to make you a suspect. Other ideas are only limited by your imagination: - You can anonymously report that people are cheating on their income taxes to the Internal Revenue Service, or cheating on their corporatestate taxes to the State revenue boards. - Send small cash or postal money order donations to controversial groups, either political, racial or cults, like the Unification Church (moonies). Not only will the mark end up on their membership list for government authorities to watch, but the group will keep on asking for more money. Once on such a list it is practically impossible to get off of it. - Write anonymous letters to media organization to let them (falsely) know that a company or group is a front for some extremist organization. - You can do the same thing as the poster idea, but instead make it an anonymous posting (you have to know a little bit about the Internet) for all the world to see on the Internet. How about a nice advertisement from a company that just announced layoffs that they are looking for 20 recent university graduates to intern for 3 months for no salary; that should enrage the laidoff workers! 2.2 Monkey Warfare Monkey Warfare is a reference to putting a monkey wrench in the gears of society. This is an area where creativity counts. To get into the correct frame of mind for coming up with ideas, you have to look at how society works and how to take advantage of it. For instance, at the scene of a crime scene the police use wide yellow plastic tape to warn people to stay away, and similar tape is used on some constrution sites to warn of danger. This tape if put up in an area you don't want people to enter, even though it is not a dangerous construction site or the scene of a crime, will usually keep people from crossing it due to their blind obedience to authority. Similarly, road construction barricades can keep vehicles out of an area where there is no work going on. Just be creative and use things for the exact opposite purpose for which they are intended. You can put up false notices, similar to the posters I mentioned previously. If you can copy city letterhead, or university, or company, whatever is appropriate to the circumstances, and use it. For instance you can put up reschedule notices for exams at a local university. Or you can put up a notice from the city saying that the school or company cafeteria has been found in violation of health codes and that anybody who has had stomach pains or flu-like symptoms should immediately see their doctors; that is sure to cause a flood of lawsuits for imaginary symptoms. A perfect example are locks. They are meant to keep the wrong people out, but can be very easily used for keeping the right people out too. What would a government office company do if they showed up in the morning to find that they couldn't put a key into any of the locks to open up the place for the day? The best product to use in locks is Crazy (Cyanoacrylic) Glue. For ease of use and for doing lots of locks quickly I often use the Spray Photo Mount glue I mentioned previously for putting up posters, or spray glue (like that made by Norton Adhesives) for gluing sanding disks on a sanding machine. You can quickly go from lock to lock spraying it full of glue. Likewise, for magnetic card readers, even the swipe style, take a card, spray both it and the slot with glue and insert the card to be glued in place filling up the slot. You can cause major backups in the drainage of buildings by finding the main sewage drain and filling it full of expanding polyurethane foam (used for insulating cracks and is available at any hardware store). If you get to the top of a building (the taller the better) and fill up the drains with this stuff, turn on the taps and then unscrew the tap handles off so they can't be turned back off, or even better do the same with the emergency fire-fighting hose and remove the valve handle! The water damage to property can be in the tens of thousands of dollars very easily. What about sick building syndrome? This is where due to lack of proper ventilation and lack of cleaning of the ventilation system because the company wants to save a bit of money, people end up feeling tired or even having flu-like symptoms. Did you know you can encourage this? Nutrient Agar solutions are the best, but you can make a very good substitute for your activities by adding sugar to a weak solution of beef broth. You can spray or pour this into Air Intake registers in a building but for best results open up an air return (intake) vent and put a tray of the solution in it (or you could substitute some water absorbant material that would act somewhat like a sponge, like a newspaper or piece of carpetting and soak it with the solution). Building security is usually lax during the day, and after hours is more concerned about entries or people leaving with stuff. If you enter the building before the end of the work day, hide in a washroom and then set up your equipment to look like cleaning equipment (pails of dirty looking water, ie. beef broth and sugar, and spray bottles full of the same,) you will be able to complete your operation since you will look like a cleaner to any video monitoring and will be leaving the building with nothing to arouse suspicion. Spring or Summer are the best times to carry this out, and in a month or two the people may not be working very hard because of the building becoming known as a "sick" building. Often just people thinking a building has "sick building syndrome" will cause people to start complaining about it. Of course just as locks can be misused so can vehicles. People are dependant of their automobiles. All it takes is a potato shoved into the exhaust pipe to put them out of commission. If the potato completely seals the pipe shut, the back pressure will cause the car to eventually stop and for the engine to refuse to turn over. If there is a public event or well known person involved such as a politician, rich or famous person, who is going to be at a certain location known to the public, any suspicious objects will be assumed by the authorities to be possible threats. If you go to such an area with a couple of shopping bags, preferably each one should have a bag in a bag so that the contents can not be seen, and fill the bags with old books or newspapers or other objects to give it volume and weight, you can leave them there. The authorities will likely assume they are possible bombs and blow them apart. Even if you get caught, just claim they were your garbage and the worst you can get charged with is littering or public mischief, both very minor charges. If you want to add to the effect, you could also put a large windup clock inside the bag, or a small sign placed on the bag saying something like: "do not touch". (Do not put a sign that claims there is a bomb, as if you do get caught, then you are in for serious criminal charges rather, than just a misdemeanor.) Do you want to teach people how to skate without roller blades? Mineral oil which can be bought in good quantities fairly cheaply at any drug store, can be spread on tile or marble floors in major malls or office towers. If you want something even more slippery and invisible, get spray-on fabric sizing. Do not get starch, as it is sticky, get spray-on fabric sizing, and to verify you have the right type it will likely have a warning not to get it on tile or linoleum floors because it will make it slippery. One area that is of particular annoyance to me is the proliferation of video cameras everywhere. The FBI regularly review tapes taken by cameras on public transportation, banks, and security cameras on the outside of many buildings not just for those who are wanted for crimes but those who are considered a possible future threat by the NSA because of their political beliefs even though they have never committed any crime. Wherever possible, where you will not be at any substantial personal risk of getting caught, spraypaint the lenses of these cameras with black paint. For out of reach cameras, use gaffer's tape to attach the can of spray paint to a long wooden pole, mount one of those inexpensive gun-type spray-can triggers available at hardware stores to the spray paint can, and using a cable going through eyelets screwed into the pole, pull the cable to pull the trigger to spray the paint from the other end of a six or eight foot pole. 2.3 Destruction Destruction can involve explosives or incendiaries, as well as other activities. There are many texts available on explosive devices so I will leave it to you to seek out and learn from these sources. Incendiaries are one area that are often skipped in text files. These are items that burn to either cause other items to ignite or are designed to distort or melt other objects. Different incendiaries are better for different types of targets. For wood to ignite, you don't need very high temperatures, but you need a very long burning fire to ensure the ignition of the wood. This is the type of incendiary you will need to ignite wooden structure buildings or start a lumberyard fire. The best thing to use to ensure the ignition of large wooden structures are artificial fire logs, or you can make the equivalent by soaking a tied up tight roll of newspapers in melted paraffin wax, or mixing wood shavings with some melted paraffin wax and then pouring it into a paper bag. In the latter case put the paper bag into another paper bag or box and light it when you want to use it. The best placement is to put your incendiary under the item to ignite, like a large wooden beam, so that the flame from the incendiary will continue to heat the target until it too ignites. For non-flammable targets, you will want a high-temperature incendiary. These are mixtures of oxidizers and fuels, and are very hot and fast burning. Their purpose is to either distort or melt objects, such as pipes, cables, beams or railway track. The best of these is Thermite, which is a mixture of aluminum powder and iron oxide (rust) but has the disadvantage that it is difficult to get going. Other incendiary mixtures will use fuels such as aluminum or magnesium powder as the fuel, and Potassium Perchlorate, Ammonium Perchlorate, or Potassium Chlorate as the oxidizer. Gunpower, available from any gun and many sporting shops, is also a good hot incendiary. You may also want a chemical igniter to provide a time delayed igniter for the above incendiaries. These chemical time-delayed ingnitors are made up of two parts. When these two parts come into contact with each other they ignite. This type of igniter is great for delays that allow you to escape well before something is ignited or detonated. Some of this second type of igniter, ignite spontaneously when the two components make contact and some have natural time delays. Delays can be added or increased by adding a barrier between the substances that one part will soak or eat through. This barrier can be paper used with glycerine, brake or hydraulic fluids or gelatine capsules or rubber used with Concentrated Sulfuric acid. Time delay 1 is best for igniting wooden or paper objects or firelogs. Time delays 2, 3 or 4, will work with the former, or with the incendiary mixtures that often need higher temperatures to be ignited. 1 - Linseed oil (and linseed oil containing products such as varnish) are one of the primary sources of accidental fires in the U.S.. Linseed oil will slowly oxidize when exposed to air. If the surface area of the oil is increased by soaking rags or paper with the oil, the oil will oxidize in air much quicker thereby raising its own temperature which in turn increases the rate of oxidation, thereby raising the temperature even more until it finally catches fire. This is called "spontaneous combustion". This is a good technique to use if you want a fire to be labelled as accidental and it is conceivable that someone could have been painting or varnishing in the area. Just leave some linseed oil soaked rags or paper in a corner near a flammable target. The time delay depends on the grade of oil, what it is soaked in, the temperature and the rate of airflow, but is usually measured in fractions of an hour or in hours. 2 - Put Match Heads (or Potassium Chlorate/Sugar mixture) into a gelatin capsule (or knotted balloon) along with some lead shot for weight, and place this into a bit of Concentrated Sulfuric acid. The Acid will eat through the capsule (or balloon) and ignite the contents in 1 to 15 minutes. The delay may be increased by putting the first capsule into a larger capsule, sealing the seam(s) of the capsule(s) with glue, or adding glycerine to the Sulfuric acid. Conversely, if you put Concentrated Sulfuric acid into a capsule using a glass eye dropper, glue the seam of the capsule and make sure no acid got onto the outside of this capsule, you can place it into a box of matches. When the acid eats its way out and contacts the match heads, they will ignite. 3 - On whatever is to be ignited, place 1/2 teaspoon or more of Potassium Permanganate and place a couple of drops of glycerine on this. In 5 seconds to many minutes it will ignite with a fierce flame. The timing is dependant on the powder's grain size, amounts and temperature. This igniter will not work below 10 degrees Celsius, which can be used as another method or time delay. For even longer delays, a piece of paper may placed on the Potassium Permanganate and several drops of glycerine are put on this. 4 - Calcium Hypochlorite, (also known as Pool Shock, H.T.H. Chlorine, Dry Bleach or Pool Chlorine,) is an excellent oxidizer for chemical igniters. It will ignite after contact with Auto Brake Hydraulic or Transmission Fluids, with the time dependant on the mixture and the temperature. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 3.0 Targets and Targetting Targets should be chosen to cause maximum disruption or maximum fear and rumours. 3.1 Visible Targets The most visible targets are: politicians, government offices, the media, utilities, large companies, Financial companies, Special Interest Groups, foreign representatives (whether they be government offices, trade organization, ethnic lobby groups, etc.,) educational institutions, utilities, tourist attractions and those miscellaneous targets that would get a lot of public attention. Fake reports, threats and even monkey warfare techniques or extremely destructive techniques can be used against any of these targets. I will only cover a couple of ideas for targets not already covered, and leave the rest up to your own imagination. Financial institutions are a good target because of the number of people who are tired of getting low returns on their deposits, having to pay fees for every service, and paying high rates of interest on loans and mortgages and credit cards when often the bank is loaning the person their own money back! Of all targets Personal Banking Machines (Automated Teller Machines/ATM's) are the most vulnerable. Beware that many machines have video camera's behind them. Always wear a disguise, and as your first action, spray paint any area you think might contain a camera (they usually put them behind dark or black plastic and don't use pinhole camera's because of the higher cost and lower quality of pinhole camera's) with black spray paint. You can now spray expanding polyurethane insulation into the bank card slot to cause extensive damage to all the equipment. (This stuff is very sticky on skin so be careful.) I am sure you can think of lots of other things to do to one of these machines, whether it be to pump water, ink, or bleach solution into them, or just take a chainsaw or axe to one! Of course is you want to be more subtle you could take a small high-powered magnet and just glue it under the slot so that any card inserted will have its stripe slide right by the magnet and therefore be erased. If a company, that is very profitable and is paying no taxes or has just laid off lots of workers, has outdoor tanks these tanks may be a great target. The tank might only contain distilled water or vinegar, but it could also contain some extremely flammable solvents or gases that will explode when exposed to fire! The same is possible if there are lots of steel barrels. And what about the media that tries to placate the masses and tells us we have to accept our fate. They claim businesses can't offer any kind of job security, that it isn't their fault, it is because of "global markets" at the very same time these companies are reaping record profits and yet still laying off more workers or shipping the work overseas where there are no minimum wages, health benefits, or safety and pollution standards. The media doesn't reflect public opinion, it tries to create it through propaganda, for profit. You can attack this media on all levels, whether it is by putting glue in 100 newspaper box slots, by transmitting over radio or television broadcasts with your very own pirate transmitter (you can contact me if you wish to purchase a pirate radio or TV transmitter,) by sending them threats, or even by knocking down a transmitter tower or mailing them a bomb! The media laughs at how they manipulate the public for profit; isn't it time to make them stop laughing at you? 3.2 Transportation The primary transportation targets will be railways, public transit, roadways or airports. Because of the vastness of rail systems they can not be easily watched by their managers. Large heavy objects can be put on one of the tracks in an effort to dislodge any coming train wheels. Steel bars or beams, or lots of large concrete blocks could be used. Of course this must be done at night to cause a night incident or the obstructions will be visible by the crew, but possibly not in time for them to stop. It takes a few miles for a very fast moving train to come to a stop. Tracks can actually be moved slightly out of alightment to assure a derailment. To do this the spikes that hold that section in place must be removed. This is very heavy work but track switches and track branch-offs are particularly vulnerable. Additionally there are electrical conductors between sections of track so that the rail company can detect any breaks in the track. All you need to do is provide a jumper wire between any section you separate, before you cut the jumper braid and do your best to warp or break the track. This jumper need not be very heavy unless it is an electric train system, rather than diesel. In remote areas, you can simplify the job by taking a steel beam just shorter than the distance between the tracks, and put it perpendicular between the tracks. Then if you place explosives such as dynamite between the end of the beam and the opposite track, the force of the explosive will force the tracks apart. Ballasting the explosive charge by covering it with sand bags will direct more of the force towards separating the tracks. Be sure to protect the jumper wire from the force of the explosion. Of course tresles spanning gorges provide even more opportunities. Remember that due to urban expansions, rail tracks sometime pass next to expensive residential areas, and that many toxic or flammable chemicals such as chlorine gas and propane are shipped by rail. Public transportation is a particularly visible target since so many people use it and it is taxpayer subsidized. Of public transit services, subway system are particularly vulnerable due to the closed nature of underground stations. Since the gas attacks on the Japanese subway system, even the hint of a similar attack or a bomb attack on a subway system will cause utter panic. These underground stations are often even more vulnerable due to them having air vents that often come out to publicly accessable roadways and sidewalks with very visible metal gratings. Should someone pour chlorine bleach, and either ammonia or an acid so that they would mix in a station, (this could even be done through an outside grating) the created hydrazine or chlorine gas would cause a stampede of people. The same would happen with a smoke bomb or a small explosive device (even an M-80 firecracker on a timer,) set to go off during the "rush hour" and there would likely be an evacuation or a shutting down of part of the system for a telephoned (but fake) threat. Because of the number of people involved, this is sure to get media attention. Highways and roadways are not as vulnerable, due to their high visibility. It is difficult to carry out a program due to the high visibility and the continuing traffic on the thoroughfare. One technique that will work to cause accidents, particularly if there is a curve, lots of traffic or lots of stops and starts, is to create a slippery road surface. In northern states all that would be necessary would be to wet down the roadways during freezing temperatures. The easiest method of providing large quantities of water would be to open up and turn on a fire hydrant. Where there aren't freezing temperatures, it will be necessary to first lay down a layer of oil on the road. To get such quantities of oil would be expensive, except that you will often find a barrel of used oil outside of many automotive repair shops (there to be recycled) or you can often find large quantities of these barrels of recycled oil in waste storage or recycling yards. Airports are also difficult due to the high levels of security they maintain. Of course you can turn that high level of security around to their disadvantage by leaving "unattended parcels" which will be assumed to be a threat, or by written or telephoned threats. 3.3 Electricity Residents and businesses are both dependant on a reliable source of electrical power. You can make it unreliable and even without causing any damage. Throughout any major metropolitan area with overhead power distribution there will be the occasional pole that has an arm locked in position. If you remove the lock, either through cutting its shackle with a pair of bolt cutters, or by hammering it off, you can now move the arm to its other position which will disconnect the power to an area. This is only temporary though you can increase the time the power is disconnected by padlocking the arm with your own lock into the off position. High tension circuit breakers are designed to sense either 3 minor momentary shorts or one major one before disconnecting the power for safety reasons. You can safely cause such shorts in high-tension primary lines (>100,000 volts) using balloons. Take several helium ballons with a few long lengths of video tape trailing from them and release them upwind from high-tension electrical lines and towers. As the balloons float above the lines, the electrically conductive recording tape trailing under the balloons will act as conductors shorting out the lines for a short moment before the tape burns up. Do not use kites as there may be sufficient electrical leakage through the string to shock or electrocute you, especially in damp weather. Of course primary hydro transmission towers are primary targets for destructions, as are transformer/switching stations, pole transformers and underground transformer vaults. Towers can be toppled, transformers and electrical insulators shot at, and underground vaults are particularly vulnerable to having gasoline poured into them and ignited. One particular target that will have extremely high security but will also get much media attention are Nuclear power generating stations. Threats to them either directly or to the media will not get published, this is the kind of thing they will keep secret, but the authorities will take it seriously and spend a fortune in added security. Just be extremely careful as this will be given the highest of priority for investigators. Of course you can create a public spectacle that can be safely set off remotely, if you shoot rockets with either incendiary or explosive payloads generally towards the station, but it is best to do this for when they are giving public tours so that there will be witnesses. You won't do any appreciable damage, but if there are people on tour it will likely have to be made public. The rockets can be made very easily by purchasing Estes or other model rockets and replacing any final stage/single stage engines with "booster engines" that are meant to ignite the next stage, only in this case the final stage is a payload section filled with an incendiary chemical mixture. For explosive rockets, use the correct engines but glue any separate rocket sections together so that the rocket can not separate for the ejection of a parachute (you won't need a parachute,) and have a payload section right behind the nosecone instead of a parachute. Drill a hole in the nosecone and put a long nail in it, with the head sticking out and the pointed end inside the payload section next to the primer of a shotgun shell. When the rocket hits an object the nail head will hit first, driving the pointed end into the primer of the shotgun shell, setting it off. The effect is much greater if you remove the lead shot from the shotgun shell and replace it with a primary explosive like Lead Azide, and then with a booster or high explosive charge like PETN or TNT. 3.4 Water Either the supply of water can be threatened or its purity. If the water valve to a building (they are often bolts visible in the pavement outside of the building, or are valves on the lawn outside the property,) is turned off this will end the water supply to any sprinkler system, which would be catostrophic if there should be a fire. You can also pour epoxy glue or "liquid steel" over the valve after you have shut it off. Alternately, if there is a fire, and someone opened up several nearby fire hydrants, the drop in water pressure would make the closest hydrant being used to fight the fire useless. Even just opening up several hydrants in an area can drop the pressure sufficiently that water flow will almost stop to nearby residences. Of course threats that various bacteria or virii have been poured into a reservoir or water treatment plant can cause a panic, and the authorities will add very high levels of chlorine to the water, levels that will be very upsetting to the public. 3.5 Natural Gas, Oil and Gasoline. Natural Gas due to its flammable nature is a prime target if you want to create an atmosphere of fear. Incendiaries are perfect to put on the valve regulation/metering that is outside of many buildings. There is nothing like a fireball to instill fear in the populace. A friend out east, says that in Boston they have gigantic LNG (Liquified Natural Gas) tankers that bring in the gas. These ships carry so much gas that has been compressed until it becomes liquid that if one were to catch fire or be blown up (a portable stinger missle would work perfect here) in Boston Harbour, that the fireball would be huge, similar in size to a small atomic bomb. Similarly some cities have large oil or gasoline processing facilities close to their populations. If the storage tanks in these facilities were ignited from an incendiary charge tens of thousands of people would have to be evacuated. A friend who I have been conversing with for years on the Internet groups sci.electronics and rec.pyrotechnics says that there is an oil/gas pipeline up in Canada that goes all the way from Alberta, to their province of Ontario, where there are refining facilities in Sarnia, but the pipeline continues to Toronto, where it goes right through a very populated area just north of Finch Avenue, to huge gasoline, diesel and heating oil storage tanks north-west of Keele Street and Finch Avenue (both major thoroughfares). The pipeline then goes on to Quebec. There are supposed to be markers all along the whole pipeline route to warn contractors not to dig there. Just imagine the impact if those tanks went and the nearby natural gas pipeline went up with it in the middle of a major city like Toronto! ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 4.0 Getting and Avoiding Attention YOU DO NOT WANT TO GET FOUND OUT. It will mean even for the most minor of activities ending up on lists with government organizations and lists kept by special interest groups. Even credit reporting agencies such as TRW and Equifax will store and resell information on any such activities by you to prospective employers and creditors. People fear the unknown. So if the source of the disturbances or attacks are kept a mystery it will increase people's fears. The exception is the case where you want to instigate friction between two adversarial target groups. It is not smart to let them know who did what you did. This will only lead to you getting yourself into trouble. What you did should speak for itself. It should not be necessary for you to explain the purpose for doing what you did, and doing so only makes it easier for you to be identified. If the action is self-explanatory, don't worry if someone else takes the credit for your actions (as long as they don't twist the meaning of your actions) because by taking credit, they are only bringing the heat onto themselves and away from you. Alway be aware of your actions and when you are leaving a trail that could lead back to you, whether that be not using some disguise to hide who you are, leaving fingerprints, or in thinking you can make a telephone call (even through a diverter) from your own home telephone line. It is better to act as if you are paranoid than to realize after the fact you should have assumed your line was being monitored or you were captured on a video camera going somewhere. Try to consider all the factors that might be involved in your plans. If you are going to be carrying out some direct action during the night, have you checked the phase of the moon? Why would you want to do this? Because if it is the new moon, there won't be any light from the skies (since the moon won't be visible) to light you up and help to expose what you are doing. Considerations like this can help to make you extremely successful in your efforts. Think of what and how you are going to do things well in advance, and consider the most likely things that could go wrong and how you will deal with them. Yes, you as an individual, working alone, can fill a city with a sense of terror. Only then will most people look at their lives and at the society they live in and blindly contribute to. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Say or yell it out loud repeatedly: "I'M MAD AS HELL, AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE IT ANYMORE!" Now, didn't that feel great? John Lundgren =======================================================================