“The information that leaked was for public safety officials, not for the public,” she said. “And the fact is, it was put out before the investigation was completed.”

That's our boys. Keep the public in the dark as long as possible. Orwell was so right.

[Chris Farley "Quotes" with "Hand Jestures"] One hopes that such fanatics are not "flying under the radar" until an incident like this one happens. I know that "squealing" goes against American culture, but "if you see something, say something."

George Orwell's novel should have been called "2009".

Weird a neighbor was shown nazi guns and daggers and then Cummings told him hewas a nazi but the neighbor never reported it!

If someone wants to build a bomb they will. All of the items listed above are readily available on the internet. A person will just a lil more intelligence of a cell phone salesman can build a bomb. A tablespoon full of Brylecreme and a few chlorine tablets will take a small house down...Thank God we live in Maine. If a mad bomber ever decided to blow something up in Maine , our roads are in such bad condition, he would never be able to deliver it because the first pot hole he hit would detonate it. Great Job DOT...we knew you had a plan all along....

Rachael1962 being a Nazi is not illegal. I don't agree with the politics of the Nazi's but in this country you are still free to belong to any political party you wish...

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Guess all you people that were condeming the woman for killing him without knowing the facts are feeling quite small right now! If he had made the bomb, hard telling where he would have set it off and who would have been hurt by it.

02/12/09 kanhanit

it was apparent that this person was very dangerous,why would anyone think that he was not not capable of abuse and

violence toward that innocent little girl and her mother,no one knows the circumstances surrounding this case.

lets hear the whole story. as a retired police officer ,these situations happen often. and more often than not in that part of the country,they are justified.been to maine,different world in many ways.

I understand its not illegal to be a nazi in America but a nazi building bombs and keeping nazi memrobalia is a bit extreme to say the least

I havent heard the facts but something is not adding up

.Amber didn't go to the police about the bomb material? ..There has been mention of an affair with a handyman. Also the police were only at the home once concerning a dog..

Yes there are factors that may point to abuse such as the isolation but the community in Belfast spoke of her as being nice and him too.Yet reclusive ( another indicator of abuse )

Now when the handyman spoke ( and he was the only handyman that went public) he said Cummings was a jerk...

What i am witnessing on the posts are folks jumping onto the Amber was abused wagon which if indeed true is a tradgedy but still something is not adding up and until I hear the facts I am not sure..Weird case

Of course law enforcement would NEVER exaggerate a threat to bask in the glory or reinforce a budget request.

Russ, you don't post something like that without wanting a response so YOU GOT IT! I have to wonder how many people like you in the world contribute to these types of situations in the first place. We had a white, southern, republican for 8 years. Where are we now? Nappy headed? Seriously? I hope you don't have children...

Where are we now?? We are in big trouble honey. There goes national security

does being in fear of one's life & the life of one's child ring a bell here?

For now, I'll ignore the disfunctional family and homicide aspects of this unfortunate situation. I am curious how much uranium and thorium were found in the house, and what form they were in (metallic, compounds, etc.). I'm also curious if these two elements were shielded becasue they are radioactive and therefore a hazard to the occupants of the house (and others if released outside).

As for the other (more radioactive) fission product elements metioned, note that "Cummings also reportedly had literature on how to build dirty bombs and information about cesium-137, strontium-90 and cobalt-60, additional radioactive materials, although he did not actually have those materials." These more intensely radioactive materials are fission products of uranium and thorium (and plutonium), present in trace amounts in the uranium and thorium, and present in increased amounts in A-bomb fallout. A fission bomb would require enriched uranium and presumably Cummings did not have fission bomb material and was counting on convential explosives to disperse the uranium/thorium (and their natural radiactive fission products).

"Nappy headed"?!! What kind of an individual would make such a remark??? Yeah, I think I know the answer. Horrible.

Hey look, chief Belfast moonbat...former Belfast mayor and local businessman Mike Hurley!

What's really great about this is that their home is only 3 away from mine....yikes.

Forget about some dead Nazi in Belfast. The REAL dirty bomb threat is your local Walmart:

http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Could_missing_WalMart_signs_wind_up_0215.html

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Amber Cummings is a hero! Leave her alone! She did the right thing taking out that scumbag white supremecist husband of hers. If only more people had the gumption to come forward and take action on creepy maniacs like this the world would be a better place! SET AMBER CUMMINGS FREE!

"If only more people had the gumption to come forward and take action on creepy maniacs like this the world would be a better place!"

Is that what we've tried to do in Iraq and everybody says "bad, bad,bad".

Meant to say "Isn't", not "Is", in previous post.

If Mr. Cummings had but read "The Radioactive Boy Scout" he could have put 2 and 2 together to make what he had on hand a far nastier device, by irradiating the U and Th as well as common minerals, to create the very hot isotopes which make a dirty bomb far dirtier. Go read "Solution Unsatisfactory" by Robert A. Heinlein (written in 1939!) for a very chilling possibility.