"Weapon of Mass Destruction" Targets Sex Shop In Waldo

[Ian David]

"Weapon of Mass Destruction" Targets Sex Shop In Waldo

By Grayson Kamm
First Coast News

WALDO, FL -- Detectives say it's an act of local terrorism. An adult bookstore is cleaning up after a chemical attack by a homemade device that investigators are calling a "weapon of mass destruction."

In Waldo, people have held prayer vigils and protests aimed at an adult bookstore along US 301, trying to keep the "Cafe Risque" from opening its doors on time.

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The device, discovered Sunday morning, was made of two gallon-size sports drink jugs connected by hoses. Someone set it on top of the store's window air conditioning unit.

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Homemade -- but mighty effective -- the device had HAZMAT teams in full gear Sunday morning. By Monday, clean-up teams had stripped the room bare. Everything that was inside is now outside. The contaminated trash filled two dumpsters.


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Under state law, by the book, deputies say the device is a weapon of mass destruction.

"They're looking at hundreds of thousands of dollars in fines, and... 30 years in jail," Faulk said.

"You're trying to hurt people. You're trying to change their ideas or instill fear. And that's exactly what the terrorists do. So this person is a local terrorist," he said.

More:
http://www.firstcoastnews.com/news/local/news-article.aspx?storyid=58393



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College student says thought arson was "God's will"

Knoxville (AP) - A grand jury in Knoxville will decide whether to charge a bible college student in the burning of an adult bookstore.

Twenty-year-old Benjamin Daniel warren told authorities he put on a ninja outfit and torched the bookstore, believing he was doing God's will. According to the statement, Warren was later involved in a car crash, which convinced him God was punishing him for it.

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The owner of the Town and Country Book Store says the blaze cost him as much as $600,000 in product and as much as $300,000 in the loss of the building.

The Knoxville News Sentinel reviewed documents that showed Warren lived near the bookstore in Powell and had been attending Crown College, also in Powell, about six miles northwest of Knoxville.

More:
http://www.volunteertv.com/Global/story.asp?S=4865245

[FuzzyDicePHL]

1. "god's will"

aka, "batshit insane."

[liberal N proud]

2. They had better tag those fundamentalist bastards as terrorist

These people are as low as those who crashed airplanes into building on Sept 11, 2001.

If the bu$h regime and their band of thugs are truly fighting the war on terror, they had better find and prosecute these bastards the to the fullest extent of the law.

[phillinweird247]

3. Hey, Gods love and mercy are boundless.....

And if you don't believe it he will SMITE thee!!!
Ha-Ha

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

4. This is a terrible crime, but you know what's really funny?

The vision of some dorky fundy kid running around dressed as a ninja and carrying a "throwing Bible" on his belt.

[Ian David]

5. Their local ringleader in Waldo is this guy Rev. Jim DuBois

Abstinence issue raises local concerns
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Jim DuBois thinks they just might. DuBois, pastor of the First Baptist Church in Waldo, said a lack of information about sex kept him from experimenting when he was younger.

DuBois said he has prevented his own son from participating in school sex education programs because of the content of those programs. He said he reviewed the course material to prove to teachers that he was not "some fundamentalist fanatic." He said he was the only parent in his child's class to do so.

"Parents just blindly accept that anything being taught must be OK," DuBois said.

In this case, DuBois said the material was not OK. In addition to using slang language with students, he said the video material presented was unacceptable.

DuBois said a better alternative would be an abstinence-only program like the one his church supports, True Love Waits. The program requires six to eight months of education, after which students commit to wait until they are married to have sex.

More:
http://www.alligator.org/edit/issues/99-fall/991130/b04bush30.htm


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Plan places store near Waldo
By AMY REININK
Sun staff writer

After the meeting, as both the women in bikinis and the protesting residents lingered outside the former bar, the Rev. Jim DuBois of Waldo First Baptist Church said he expects to see an even larger crowd at those hearings.

"This campaign is just beginning," DuBois said. "There are times when you have to stand up and tell people what you believe in, and this is one of them."

More:
http://www.gainesville.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060420/LOCAL/204200367/1078/news

[TechBear_Seattle]

6. What about the real instigators?

Under state law, by the book, deputies say the device is a weapon of mass destruction.

"They're looking at hundreds of thousands of dollars in fines, and... 30 years in jail," Faulk said.

"You're trying to hurt people. You're trying to change their ideas or instill fear. And that's exactly what the terrorists do. So this person is a local terrorist," he said.

The people who put this into action are only the pawns. Will the police go after the masterminds? You know, the clergy who provided a religious framework in which terrorism = God's favor and who incited this action? I mean, if the United States can go after Muslim clerics who do exactly the same thing....

[Ian David]

7. I'm thinking they need to put Rev. Jim DuBois and Stephen Baldwin in Gitmo

After they torture them for a few months, maybe they'll be able to prove their innocence.

Actor Stephen Baldwin
on crusade against porn
Christian activist photographing shop's patrons, threatening to publish names in newspaper ads
http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=48347
(WorldNUTDaily Article)

[Richard Steele]

10. I hope so. It HAS been done before, successfully.

The asshats who INCITED this are a much greater threat
to society than the low-level follower(s) who actually
planted the device, IMO.

The followers would likely NEVER have acted upon
their smallminded hatreds without the encouragement and validation
of the GroupThink "environment of opinion" established and
maintained by the leaders.

"A herring stinks from the head", as my friend Jake used to say...

[Ravy]

8. Well, there goes the "America hasn't been attacked since 9/11" BS.

Just keepin' the homeland safe. NOT!

[noonwitch]

9. I don't want people to die going to sex shops

Although I don't want those stores in my neighborhood. The tittie bars on 8 Mile are bad enough.

Arrest the bastards and charge them with terrorism.

[Ian David]

11. My theory: Internet porn reduces the need for adult book stores

The more porn and sex toys people can get online in the privacy of their own homes, the less demand there will be for brick-and-mortar stores in someone's neighborhood.

That's my unsubstantiated gut-instinct hypothesis.

I don't know if there are actual "statistics" to back that up.