dear reader, every little bit helps.
if every conscientious american did that every day we'd eradicate the menace in no time.
before causing my copy to be destroyed, i thought i'd see if it was the same as the serially xeroxed and cheaply bound copy i'd seen all those years ago. that copy did not have any ASCII illustrations, which do appear in the copy i took off the internet.
much of the bad writing, the malapropisms, and casual tone sound a lot more contemporary than a) i recall or b) the dated material itself (for example, and perhaps conceding the senator's concern to a degree, the vexing question of the provenance of the recyclable plastic bottle molotov cocktail comes clear while reading a recipe written in 1971 - that lost golden age when "a coke bottle" was sure to be made of glass). oh, and it is a pdf'd web page, not the anticipated scan of aforementioned "'zine"-style, serially-copied publication, though it is quite widely available on the open internet, likely in various formats; haven't checked, but expect a copy more like what i remember resides at the internet archive.
anyway, scary representations of household chemistry and edifying explanations of long-gone telephone switching --
illustrative paraphrase: the best computer to make [color]box device is an atari because you can do it in basic with only 5 statements--ha: old-timey!-- systems and scams abound among some gleeful contemplation of seriously horrifying pranks and mayhem. a fellow around the water cooler recalled the book as the source of his recipe for gunpowder; another colleague attributes a friend's son's dementia onset to a recipe from the book. i would be very reticent about attempting almost anything i read there.
"anarchist" in the title seems to signify one inclined to mayhem or taboo chemical knowledge rather than one inclined to implementing a political philosophy of absolute freedom.
amusing paraphrase: cutting enough match heads can be tedious, but will make a fun evening for the whole family if you can pry them away from the tv.i guess, if i were allegedly a part of a conspiracy, downloading and reading that book and discussing said downloading and reading with alleged co-conspirators could be construed as an act or acts in furtherance of whatever alleged goal of said alleged conspiracy; it is not clear where the threshold of criminality is for the individual not conspiring (i don't say "lone-wolf" because that term presupposes a planned class of activities the contemplated reader may, for any of an infinitude of reasons, never be inclined to undertake).
an alleged conspirator might avoid legal sanction by acting specifically to frustrate the object of the conspiracy, viz. confessing to the man in time for the man to harmlessly foil the plot(s) . . . maybe; it is not clear what an individual not conspiring might do.
a nice, quiet, fellow who mostly keeps to himself, i caused the copy i had taken off the internet (which seemed to continue, beyond the cookbook, proper, to include one or more additional volumes with "terrorist" and "handbook" in their titles -- not that i waive my fundamental right to read anything i find on the internet or elsewhere containing those words) to be destroyed, although a novice forensicist could surely reconstitute enough of it to demonstrate its arrival, review and "destruction". i didn't really want it floating around in the recent memory at the same time i'm reading abu bakr naji's "the management of savagery," which is, frankly, fascinating, far more erudite than "jolly roger", and far less disturbing to read than the latest news of any of any number of parties' depredations; so far, it is broad strategy and exegesis not so different from clausewitz, nkrumah, guevara et al.