This is quite sad. Another blow to amateur scientists everywhere:
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.
I suppose that in 15 years people in the US will look around themselves in their high security cities and wonder why all the equipment and technology is being sold to them by Chinese R&D labs. I suppose they won’t care because the call center jobs pay pretty well even if you do have to learn Mandarin to work there.
(There’s irony in there but the fedral government doesn’t want anyone to point it out.)
Boing Boing:US bans sale of chemicals to hobbyists without $1K license
Thats an excellent post, and an ‘evil government action’ that is flying under many peoples radar. Thanks for pointing it out!