Battleangel

It’s like a reverse boomerang effect. Why wait for abuses abroad to come back home when you can start at home. Sort of like with the prison abuse. In one way the desire to employ more effective crowd-control measures is indicating the actual extent of the cynicism of the U.S. government — and the need for massive emergency measures in the near future. A few more rigged elections, a razed economy, another war and an increase in social stratification and this could come in handy.

Nonlethal weapons such as high-power microwave devices should be used on American citizens in crowd-control situations before being used on the battlefield, the Air Force secretary said Tuesday.

The object is basically public relations. Domestic use would make it easier to avoid questions from others about possible safety considerations, said 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.”

Yes, because the U.S. has such an impeccable reputation to uphold. The argument is theoretically sound of course, doing unto others and all that, except for a minor detail. Since the U.S. is run by a group of thugs that have had a century or more of perpetual war and dirty tricks to cleanse every last shred of humanity, having become desensitized and vicious, it stands to reason that the U.S. government wouldn’t stop to consider tactical nuclear weapons if the mobs got testy enough. The U.S. is more than willing to crush both its own people and other peoples under the jackboot heel of tyranny and as such the offer to test new weapons on the home front isn’t much of a challenge, or indeed anything new. For those that have been keeping score, the U.S. already has a horrendous history of testing chemical, biological and radiation weapons on its own populace — though for the better part of the cold war it was carried out in secret.