Just a small demonstration of character
If you see this guy, consider lobbing a neutron bomb at him, or possibly firing a conventional-warhead equipped Trident D2 missile at his house.
This is Michael Wynne, the Secretary of the Air Force who yesterday advocated using certain new, non-lethal, ( whew! ) weaponry on U.S. citizens before turning it loose on peoples overseas, in order, you know, to avoid criticism.
Read about it here.
Actually, the notion has some precedent. Our government was overthrown by belligerent ideologues with no respect for established law before we sent troops to Iraq to do the same thing.
You know, it was just a matter of time before the closing of those secret prisons and the cessation of torture would catch up with us.
Now we are to be the guinea pigs for the Pentagon's new toys.
posted by eccentric recluse at 5:17 PM
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Sometimes I think we will all just wake up soon and this administion will all just have been a bad dream.
I looked at this man's bio (something you have to do with anyone associated with Bush) and he's certainly had an interesting career. 7 years at the US Military Academy and the rest of the time spent serving the military industrial complex. Somehow that doesn't make me feel much better about him. Maybe that's just me.
JB
To my mind, non-lethal crowd control is good technology to develop, and it makes a weird sort of PR sense to use it first on Americans (if needed!) before Americans use it on crowds in foreign cities. We don't gun down mobs here but they do elsewhere. It'd be good to put an end to that.
The modern military-industrial mind may be creepy but at least it has ideas. Fortunately, I can't think of any mob scene in the U.S. where I would condone the use of this stuff.
anonymous #2 makes a point there, I have tried to rationalize what this guy might have meant, but no matter how much slack I cut him, I still come up short. why not try this under battlefield conditions, as an alternative to spraying the crowd with a hail of .223 M-16 rounds.
Would that not accomplish the same thing, and, if these devices did turn out to have some unforeseen ramifications for the person on the receiving end, well, there is always the M-16.
My fear is that the government is disconnected from the realities of American life, and has moved to the stage where the preservation of the government, even at the expense of a single citizen, is the overriding priority. We have all seen some of this mindset in all manner of places, churches, retail stores, union halls, executive boardrooms, even our own living rooms. When it becomes institutionalized, it is dangerous, even lethal.
Our government does not need to destroy us in order to save us.
This government shows no signs of recognizing that.
I found the first sentence in the CNN article, "The object is basically public relations" to be particularly funny, for all the wrong reasons.
And can anyone remember a time when the Government was connected with the realities of American life? I'm guessing that stopped after JFK got shot.
Still want to go on record here as advocating the use of microwaves for cold coffee and popcorn ONLY. This technology scares me, and it's too easy to justify its use, as in "hell, it'll burn'em a little but they'll get out of the way real fast." We could only just hope that they'll use the "thaw" setting.
Roy
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