Test nonlethal weapons on U.S. citizens, official says
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Sept. 13, 2006, 12:51AM
Test nonlethal weapons on U.S. citizens, official says
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/headline/nation/4182615.html
By LOLITA C. BALDOR
Associated Press
WASHINGTON - Nonlethal weapons such as high-power microwave devices should be used on American citizens in crowd-control situations before they are used on the battlefield, the Air Force secretary said Tuesday.
Domestic use would make it easier to avoid questions in the international community over any possible safety concerns, said Air Force Secretary Michael Wynne.
"If we're not willing to use it here against our fellow citizens, then we should not be willing to use it in a wartime situation," said Wynne.
"(Because) if I hit somebody with a nonlethal weapon and they claim that it injured them in a way that was not intended, I think that I would be vilified in the world press."
The Air Force has funded research into nonlethal weapons, but he said the service isn't likely to spend more money on development until injury issues are reviewed by medical experts and resolved.
Nonlethal weapons can weaken people if they are hit with the beam.
Some of the weapons can emit short, intense energy pulses that also disable some electronic devices.
Test nonlethal weapons on U.S. citizens, official says
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/headline/nation/4182615.html
By LOLITA C. BALDOR
Associated Press
WASHINGTON - Nonlethal weapons such as high-power microwave devices should be used on American citizens in crowd-control situations before they are used on the battlefield, the Air Force secretary said Tuesday.
Domestic use would make it easier to avoid questions in the international community over any possible safety concerns, said Air Force Secretary Michael Wynne.
"If we're not willing to use it here against our fellow citizens, then we should not be willing to use it in a wartime situation," said Wynne.
"(Because) if I hit somebody with a nonlethal weapon and they claim that it injured them in a way that was not intended, I think that I would be vilified in the world press."
The Air Force has funded research into nonlethal weapons, but he said the service isn't likely to spend more money on development until injury issues are reviewed by medical experts and resolved.
Nonlethal weapons can weaken people if they are hit with the beam.
Some of the weapons can emit short, intense energy pulses that also disable some electronic devices.
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he had a voice that was strong and loud and
i swallowed his facade cos i'm so
eager to identify with
someone above the crowd
someone who seemed to feel the same
someone prepared to lead the way
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http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=mg18725095.600
Peace,
Kat
fucking guinea pigs
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlas_Shrugged#Social_Concepts_in_Atlas_Shrugged
but anyway, what the hell is this all about. I really dont get it.
Project X is top secret. National Security...."public good"....you know.
But this might help:
The government wants you to behave. And they're willing to force you to do so.
Yeah, that's really sad!
As if it isn't bad enough, consider people who carry a lot of electronic devices - in their pockets or purses (blackberry, cell phones, etc...), people in electronic wheelchairs, or people with cochlear implants.
I've heard a story from a CI'er where she was sitting too close to a really heavy magnetic field (I forgot what it was though) and it caused her implant or processor to malfunction. One extreme case involved an austim cochlear implant child whose implant was moved to the back of his head.
That's why I wouldn't risk walking through a metal detector even when I was told nothing would happen - with an expection of a few cases where they would wipe out programming in the processor (outer device attaching to inner device on the skull, the implant).
I just can't imagine what would happen to me if I was to be part of that awful research...I would be terribly upset if they damaged my implant!!! :mad:
Anyway... that was really a disturbing report, to say the least.
sigh.
EV: It's your band.
~Q Magazine
"Kisses for the glow...kisses for the lease." - BDRII
~Ron Burgundy
Lesson learned...never go to the Olive Garden.
Seriously? Holy shit...I had no idea Olive Garden's had bars!
Tell me about it. I had no idea people still went to the Olive Garden!
Good breadsticks though...........
~Ron Burgundy
Yes, they do... but unfortunately they are full of crazy government employees who want to microwave other people. Scary stuff...
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“We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.”
― Abraham Lincoln
http://www.au.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/cst/occppr11.htm
“Although not primarily an anti-personnel device, those who have been exposed to HPM report that its effect is agonizing. The radiation penetrates below the skin, boiling nerve cells. It can blind. It induces uncontrollable panic (early research into HPM was as a crowd-control agent, and it can be used mounted on a humvee to scatter civilians by inflicting intense heat onto their skins.)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,896930,00.html
Although the Pentagon says it prefers not to use experimental weapons on the battlefield, “the world intervenes from time to time,” Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld says. “And you reach in there and take something out that is still in a developmental stage, and you might use it.”
he had a voice that was strong and loud and
i swallowed his facade cos i'm so
eager to identify with
someone above the crowd
someone who seemed to feel the same
someone prepared to lead the way