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CPSC gone bad

2006-03-07 17:33:41.242218+01 by Dan Lyke 0 comments

United Nuclear, a fantastic supplier for educational materials, is having some legal problems:

The United States CPSC has initiated criminal legal action against us and other chemical suppliers. In short, the CPSC would like to ban the public from all access to chemicals. This would mean an end to hobbies such as model rocketry, pyrotechnics and of course chemistry. One by one, our freedoms are slowly being taken away from us - this action must be stopped now.

There's a general trend, from media to physical objects, to keep people from actually doing anything themselves, to up the price of experimentation to the point where individuals can't learn or researchy except in the context of large institutions. This trend must be stopped, and this looks like a good battle.

[ related topics: Law Pyrotechnics ]

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