Teen with Home Chemistry Lab Arrested for Meth, Bombs

<i>A few days later, police admitted that Casey's chemistry lab wasn't a meth lab - but they kept him in jail, claiming that he had some of the materials necessary to produce explosives.</i><p>Its really troubling that "innocent until proven guilty" is evolving into "if you possess the means to commit a crime, this implies guilt".<p>You have everything it takes to make an IED in your kitchen. So does everyone else. It seems like they are beginning to use this to justify holding people at any time. Make a mistake? Arrest the wrong guy? Well, he <i>did</i> have all of the ingredients for making explosives in his house... (<i>and</i> he weighed less than a duck!)

I wanna do DIY Bio stuff (mentioned here on YHN a while ago) but I have nightmares about this sort of thing. I remember reading about the treatment Mitnick got while he was initially locked up. Regardless of how you feel about Mitnick personally once in jail he got treated very poorly by officials who either didn't know or care.<p>I'm still doing the DIYBio stuff, though...somehow.

Why are we tolerating this kind of witch-hunting? This is very little different from arresting people because they know how to read or wear glasses. They ought to be arresting the kids who <i>don't</i> have chemical labs in their garages for criminal lack of curiosity.

we all should be arrested because we are one of the ingredient in making hydrogen bomb