Denys Ray Hughes, 64, who has a home in Manitowish Waters in Vilas County [Wisconsin], is wanted and on the run.
According to WITI – TV in Milwaukee, Hughes was to report to a halfway house in Milwaukee on May 25th after serving prison time, but he never showed up.
U.S. Marshals believe he could be somewhere in rural northern Wisconsin or in the south eastern part of the state, where he has family.
He also has family in Arizona.
He was sentenced to 87 months in prison for the attempted production of a biological toxin for use as a weapon, possession of an unregistered destructive device, and possession of an unregistered silencer.
From the old DD blog entry, The Jailbird’s Bookshelf, back in 2006:
The evidence list from US vs. Hughes is illuminating in that it shows the standard books discussed previously in “From the Poisoners Handbook to the Botox Shoe of Death” here.
From Hughes’ “library:” “The Weaponeer,” a Saxon pamphlet with a ricin recipe, “The Poor Man’s James Bond, Vol. 3“, also containing a ricin recipe, “The Poor Man’s James Bond, Vol.2,” Festering Publication’s “Silent Death,” containing yet another ricin recipe, “Deadly Brew,” “Deadly Substances,” and an assortment of what Dick Destiny blog calls really bad science books — cf., “Grandad’s Wonderful Book of Chemistry” — for idiots or young boys.
Accompanying the books in evidence were a mortar and pestle, bottles of castor seeds, castor beans in a package, castor beans in a bin, and Red Devil lye — which is another reagent dumbly recommended by survivalist literature as useful in purifying ricin. Lye, or sodium hydroxide, is a strong base. Strong bases destroy proteins, like ricin, but for decades the literature of the domestic terrorist has cited it in their ricin recipes and it has become a marker of intent in federal cases where the US is going for a conviction on making or attempting to make a biological or chemical weapon.
Another incriminating marker is dimethyl sulfoxide, also attributed in the Hughes case. Ricin is not a contact poison but because the domestic terrorist-in-training takes seriously material like Hutchkinson’s “The Poisoner’s Handbook,” which insists it would be handy to combine dimethyl sulfoxide with ricin in plans to poison the Pope or a government employee through the skin, it has been adopted as key part of their chemical armory.
The federal case against Hughes appeared to be an easy one, based simply on showing the jury the man’s books, chemicals, equipment for bomb-making — and one pipe bomb.
For example, it cannot help a defendant to have the jury shown any of Saxon’s books. They tend to include drawings, like Dick Destiny blog’s similar rendition (to the left), on how to attack someone with poison or explosives …
A copy of the original complaint against Hughes from last year describes ATF/FBI flypaper –gunpowder, fuses, road flares, instructions on how to build a bunker, an assortment of guns, silencers and pipe-bomb-building materials.
It was a toss-up between what was the more unintentionally hilarious thing on Yahoo this morning, the headline and the hapless editors at the place or the piece on a man named “Allinvain” who’d just had all his Bitcoins — half a million USD’s worth — swiped by malware.
2602 Facebook recommendations, the world arbiter of all that is worth a circle jerk good.
Please don’t indulge the Dads. Dad rock needs to be discouraged.
If you’ve been to Guitar Center even semi-regularly on weekends you’ve suffered through some, if not many, of the annoying aspects of Dad rock.
There’s the Dad who’s buying his little American-branded made-in-China combo amp used in the soft-rock-at-worship on Sunday band.
There’s the Dad who has brought in his acoustic guitar with a couple broken strings because he’s too totally [deleted] to restring and tune it himself.
There’s the Dad at the Pasadena gig who tells you he plays guitar, too, and is now really getting back into it again because the kids are at school.
There are the Dads who want to play their old blues licks or stumble through a classic rock riff for everyone in the showroom.
Possibly the worst — the Dad rock politicians, now seemingly mostly Republicans — doing this gig for advertising.
Back when I ate shoe leather and liked it in Pennsy, the tradition was accordion and polka. If Dad had an old button box he often handed it down to his boy.
This was a big thing, particularly as the accordions were often ornate and beautiful instruments.
Polka is a family tradition, one you can do with your Dad and not be a source of mortification for everyone around you.
There is no rock with Dad. Going to see Kiss or any rock band with Dad may be fun but it’s always lame now, a sign you’ve given it up for the price of a ticket.
I can only imagine how hard it it must be for teenage children in the house when Dad attempts to rock on a newly bought guitar.
Begging to go to Dad rock camp, as in this now ubiquitous commercial for a credit card, is the most patience-trying thing you can do.
Nothing desperately signals “mid-life crisis” and “buyer’s remorse over family” quite like it:
A law enforcement source told CBS News that the man detained in the discovery of a suspicious car found outside the Pentagon Friday morning was carrying a notebook that contained the phrases, “al Qaeda,” “Taliban rules” and “Mujahid defeated croatian forces.”
“It seems to be washing out at this point, but it is still being drilled down on,” the source told [the news].
Drilled down on. All you kook belong dead Osama in pajama. Oot greet.
And there’s the DARPA balloon hunt, won by MIT using social networking, to develop a way to find terrorist networks.
That [really did great things.]
Ten thousand nine hundred followers of Spencer Ackerman on Twitter, says the banner. That’s more than four times the people that live in my old hometown.
Representative Sander Levin, the top Democrat on the House of Representatives Ways and Means Committee, has been one of strongest proponents of using the trade agreement as a carrot to encourage Colombia to make additional labor reforms.
Under the plan, Colombia committed to hiring 480 new labor inspectors, including 100 this year.
It also pledged a number of actions by June 15, including enacting laws to establish criminal penalties for employers who undermine the right to organize and bargain collectively.
Other actions due by then included publication of regulations prohibiting the misuse of worker cooperatives to circumvent labor rights; the start of an outreach program to inform workers of available remedies in labor rights cases as well as criminal penalties for employers who violate the law; and a series of inspections to ensure employers are not using temporary services agencies to thwart unions from forming and exercising their labor rights.
The Los Angeles Times tried to catch up to DD on the arms manufacturing beat on its front page today. In the process, the reporter misses the obvious — how the rest of the middle class not involved in arms manufacturing and the economy is shit in a can.
Instead, many intelligence-insulting facts and quotes are delivered.
Everyone wants US arms. And most of them go to pantywaist militaries.
There are two types of pantywaist militaries in the world.
Type 1: Our “allies” in NATO. That would be Little Tommy Atkins (Britain), Norway, Denmark, Canada, Australia — all the nations engaged in Bombing Moe. Currently, they’re in the process of making Lockheed and Raytheon CEOs happy because they must keep up the orders for smart bombs, cruise missiles and what not.
Type 2: Tyrannical nations in the Middle East, all uniformly detested by their civilian populations. That would be Egypt, Tunisia, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, the little US toadies on the south side of Persian Gulf, and — of course — the biggest and most troublesome pantywaist of all, Pakistan.
Technically, there’s a small third class, too. Really small countries — think a few golf courses for wealthy people, maybe a zoo and high rises in a place the square mileage of Manhattan — with lots and lots of money and absolutely no reason to have massive US arms shipments except as shiny trinkets. That’d be Singapore, the famous wart on the tip of Malaya.
The largest-ever U.S. foreign arms deal was announced last October, when Saudi Arabia ordered $60 billion in military hardware in a multiyear pact. The Saudis’ laundry list of weaponry included Raytheon Co.’s 2,000-pound bunker-busting bombs, Boeing’s F-15 fighter jets and Sikorsky Aircraft Corp.’s Black Hawk helicopters.
Orders are also in from Morocco, Iraq and the United Arab Emirates.
Egypt is one of the largest customers for U.S. arms. But questions about its purchases were raised by critics in recent months when a column of American-made Abrams tanks rolled into Tahrir Square as protesters rallied against President Hosni Mubarak’s regime. [Ya think?]
The Obama administration has embarked on an initiative to reform export control that will roll back many of the restrictions on the way weapons are sold to foreign countries. Northrop, which specializes in systems such as drones and cyber security, is supporting the change, saying it will help U.S. companies win contracts.
“We have been so focused on protecting our technological edge that we have actually done severe and unnecessary damage to our defense industrial base,” Northrop Chief Executive Wesley G. Bush said at a recent conference in London.
The last statement is eye-opening, primarily because it’s a bald-faced brazen lie. Secondarily, because no one at the newspaper thought to blink or even attempt to frame it in the real world of the floundering US economy.
The only industry that has been protected in the US is the arms manufacturing and exporting base.
Everyone else has been sent to Hell, C.O.D.
Post note: There was a feeble attempt to interview someone in Washington from an arms control agency. However, even that was a pointless gesture. Arms control was thrown out the window a decade ago. Even the people still involved in it essentially gave up in the face of the onslaught.
The ongoing movement of jobs to countries where labor is cheaper, plus the development of new technologies, may mean fewer opportunities for some well-paid positions in the U.S. over the next decade, said Larry Katz, an economist at Harvard University.
“Employment growth has stopped, or even declined, among many middle-class jobs that are high wage” and don’t require a college degree, Katz said.
“A lot of traditional middle-class, upper-middle-class jobs have been disappearing … .
Workers making about $40,000 to $80,000 a year constitute the bulk of labor costs for many companies, and these workers may be on the chopping block, said Jeffrey Joerres, chief executive of ManpowerGroup, a Milwaukee-based staffing services firm.
“That’s your middle class,” Joerres said
If you had a push button that would have administered a short, sharp electric shock to the editors at the Los Angeles Times today, you would have used it.
A mock “ricin” emergency drill in Taos, outside of the general procedural rules adopted for these kinds of white powder incidents, gets it all wrong on the nature of the hazard. For example, ricin intoxication, is not contagious so there is no need for quarantine.
If one cannot assume anything on the nature of the powder, then the only procedure to follow is to quarantine everyone. Which is obviously not done in these types of drills or in the many actual hoax white powder incidents around the country.
Ricin is a toxic protein present in the castor seed and you simply can’t purify enough of it to fashion into any even remotely effective WMD. DD put a stake through it back in 2004 at Globalsecurity.Org, a time when people seriously thought the procedure in the patent worked and complained that public access to it on the web was a serious threat.
Since then there have been no successful cases of ricin use as a WMD despite much wishful thinking on the subject. That’s in over a decade.
Therefore, blowing a small amount of castor seed powder out of an envelope is, practically speaking, no hazard although, since the war on terror, everyone must act like it’s so. The fear factor now associated with it, although virtually groundless, is real.
Continual exposure to castor seed powder — which never happens in the US anymore because there are no longer any castor mills — can result in allergy.
This is briefly described here at a network for physicians in the business of treating asthma and allergy.
Years ago it became pointless trying to explain any matter having to do with this to anyone in the government or national security industry.
Fact free hazard drills are now often simply the only way to do things.
When incapable of the significant, take another page from the GOP playbook. Wave your arms and make a big noise about how you’re stamping out trivial stuff that costs the taxpayer pennies when compared to the money being blown out the exhaust pipe for endless war.
In a message on the White House website entitled, “There’s a New Sheriff in Town,” Biden addressed potential cuts to spending.
“And I bet you didn’t know that your tax dollars pay for a website dedicated to the Desert Tortoise. I’m sure it’s a wonderful species, but we can’t afford to have a standalone site devoted to every member of the animal kingdom,” Biden wrote in the message also sent via email to supporters. “It’s just one of hundreds of government websites that should be consolidated or eliminated.”
