Monday, May 5, 2008

Lesson 3: The Ugly/Come fry with me, we'll sizzle like shrinky dinks

The main topic of Project Censored's terrific report, "US Electromagnetic Weapons and Human Rights" is exotic, new, secret weapons, mind control, nonlethal applications, cognitive liberty, these weapons' lethal capabilities and so much more. Written by millenium-class patriots, this masterpiece mysteriously vanished from their website. The error page says not found, if it ever existed, but be assured it was not censored!

Be assured it does exist, because I posted a copy of the original file here. You can copy the file from that location, but you have to join the group. You can read the report in its entirety here. I'm not sure PC was bullied, only 99% sure. Let's pause and talk about freedom of expression.

Only a few years ago, prior restraint was as taboo and illegal as torture or the practice of slavery. The Bush administration changed all that; these are small issues compared to their insatiable need to destroy the world. I've been fascinated to discover some people have trouble with free speech. The first amendment is plain: this is the U.S.A. Whatever it is, you can think it, say it, read it, write it, copy it and share it—period. You either defend it all, including the worst, most controversial and despicable of it, or you don't. I don't care about pornography. I don't understand child pornography, and admit I don't even really like kids. The Bush administration launched a ridiculous crusade to give very long jail sentences for "violations" of free expression called "The Innocent Images National Initiative," 18 USC §1462, 1465, 1466, 1467, 1470, 2241, 2251, 2251A, 2252, 2252A, 2253, 2254, 2257, 2260, 2421, 2422, 2423, 2425 and 13032 (whew). Protecting children was never the point: the points were eroding our guarantee of freedom of expression while terrorizing the locals, spying on people and making select people commit suicide. There are adequate, correct laws penalizing people caught producing child pornography. But possessing it, sharing it, in my eyes, isn't worth a single day of free room and board in prison. These statutes may be in US Code, but they are unconstitutional. Unfortunately, impartial courts in Bush's America are as nonexistent as the rule of law, privacy and democracy.

If Project Censored was silenced, and I insist they were, I'll speak for them because I am inconsequential and nobody but nobody cares what I say. I like that. Should that change, here's what loyal Bushies can do: take a number and get in line outside, and you may have your turn sucking my unsucked ass. If I'm mistaken, and I could be, my apologies to PC and you. For government associates, the offer stands. I reached these conclusions after months of rereading, thinking and discussing it with others who had read it.

Primarily, the document discusses the issues of psychological war versus free thought. As for psychological war, there is particular emphasis on how new electronic devices achieve a variety of mind control in their nonlethal setting, depriving the target of freedom of thought. Since these devices are developed by private industry and funded by black budgets, they are free of FOIA requests. These clever things can cause your skin to get hot, make you sleep, feel euphoric or depressed, have feelings of deep fear or dread, even implant certain thoughts—although the author's sources indicate that technology is not fully developed. There is a brief bit about pulsed projectile weapons (like rail guns) they say fire at nearly the speed of light with pinpoint accuracy to two kilometers. It mentions implant, radio, sound, magnetic and lightwave weapons. The lengthy historical perspective, list of devices and chances to excerpt here could make this post very long. Better that you just read it yourself. If you studied this site, you read about scalar howitzers and the scalar electromagnetic interferometer which, when used as a weapon, can target everything from a single individual, change his mood or disintegrate him, to wiping out entire countries. That's one man at a control panel half a world away—no hardware or soldiers in the field. This technology makes all weapons manufacture and the military itself obsolete.

I saved space to excerpt about the lethal application; in particular, this story from 2003 which was hotly disputed by war cheerleaders:

In the film, al-Ghazali, whose english is less than fluent, describes the weapon as reminiscent of a flame thrower, only immensely more powerful. It is unclear what principle the weapon is based on. Searching for a description, al-Ghazali said it appeared to be shooting concentrated lightning bolts rather than just ordinary flames. Drawing on his many years as a professional engineer, al-Ghazali speculates that radiation of some kind probably figures into the weapon's hideous capabilities. Like all men in Saddam's Iraq, al-Ghazali was compelled to serve in the Iraqi equivalent of the Army National Guard and fought in three wars over the past thirty-odd years. Via email, he told me he has seen virtually every type of conventional weapon employed in battle, and is well acquainted with their effects on people and machines, but nothing in his extensive combat experience prepared him for the shock of what he saw in Baghdad on April 12th.

On that date, al-Ghazali and his family sheltered in their house as a fierce street battle erupted in his neighborhood. In the midst of the fighting, he noticed that the Americans had called up an oddly configured tank. Then to his amazement the tank suddenly let loose a blinding stream of what seemed like fire and lightning, engulfing a large passenger bus and three automobiles. Within seconds the bus had become semi-molten, sagging "like a wet rag" as he put it. He said the bus rapidly melted under this withering blast, shrinking until it was a twisted blob about the dimensions of a VW bug. As if that were not bizarre enough, al-Ghazali explicitly describes seeing numerous human bodies shriveled to the size of newborn babies. By the time local street fighting ended that day, he estimates between 500 and 600 soldiers and civilians had been cooked alive as a result of the mysterious tank-mounted device.

In a city littered everywhere with burned-out civilian and military vehicles, US forces were abnormally scrupulous about immediately detailing bulldozers and shovel crews to the job of burying the grim wreckage. Nevertheless, telltale remnants remained as Dillon found when al-Ghazali later took him to the site. Dillon said they easily uncovered large puddles of resolidified metal and mounds of weird fibrous material that, al-Ghazali explained, were all that remained of the vehicles' tires. Dillon, who accumulated plenty of battlefield experience as a medic in Viet-Nam, and has since covered a number of wars from Somalia to Kosovo, told me that he has witnessed every kind of conventional ordnance that can be used on humans and vehicles. "I've seen a freaking smorgasbord of destruction in my life," he said, "flame-throwers, napalm, white phosphorous, thermite, you name it. I know of nothing short of an H-bomb that conceivably might cause a bus to instantly liquefy or that can flash broil a human body down to the size of an infant. God pity humanity if that thing is a preview of what's in store for the 21st century."

Project Censored offers what appears to be confirmation of this frightening story:

Asked if there are human rights concerns associated with these particular non-lethal weapons, [Carol] Smith answered, "Yes—it depends though by what is meant by 'the wrong hands.' For people who are targeted for experimentation—all such devices need testing—all hands are the wrong hands, be they government, private commercial, or sadistic/commercial. Ionatron, a large company based in Arizona, developed plasma channel directed energy weapons and state in their website: 'What are LIPC laser-guided directed-energy weapons? Laser-guided directed-energy weapons work like "man-made lightning" to disable people or things. LIPC technology is Ionatron’s proprietary type of laser-guided directed-energy weapon. LIPC stands for laser-induced plasma channel; the plasma channel is how the energy is directed through the air at the target. Extremely fast femto-second lasers cause light to break into filaments, which form a plasma channel that conducts the energy like a virtual wire. This technology can be adjusted for non-lethal or lethal use.'"

Chilling. The document correctly states the neocon movement arose out of concern (by insane people) over the "permissiveness" of the 1960s; specifically, because some kids in Oakland decided to take the summer off in 1968, think about things and enjoy life for a few weeks before entering the world of work. There were people who wanted to kill them all, fearing they wouldn't voluntarily sacrifice all their money and lives for endless war—and that it would become a movement. It was just like today, except for the draft.

Not everything is for everyone. Some people don't understand that.

From Project Censored:

In September 2006, Air Force Secretary Michael Wynne announced that crowd control weapons should be tested on Americans first. "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 non-lethal 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."

This talk was quickly silenced. Well, sort of.

Americans have little idea about the research concerning the capabilities of electromagnetism, directed acoustics, or computer-human interfacing. The majority of Americans do not know that we are currently using these new-concept weapons in Iraq and Afghanistan. Indiana University law professor David Fidler stated to the Economist, "because these weapons are most likely to be used on civilians, it is not clear that using them is legal under the international rules governing armed conflict…if they are used in conjunction with conventional weapons, they could end up making war more deadly, rather than less." [...]

Whereas Cameron focused on creating traumatized individuals through intense psychological pressure, Dr. Jose Delgado was investigating the direct route to control of "human subjects." Delgado physically invaded the brains of subjects with electrodes in order to create emotions and control actions with the push of a button. As he stated himself,

"We need a program of psychosurgery for political control of our society. The purpose is physical control of the mind. Everyone who deviates from the given norm can be surgically mutilated. The individual may think that the most important reality is his own existence, but this is only his personal point of view. This lacks historical perspective. Man does not have the right to develop his own mind. This kind of liberal orientation has great appeal. We must electrically control the brain. Some day armies and generals will be controlled by electric stimulation of the brain." [...]

A prominent neuroscientist, Francis Crick stated in 1994, that "your joys and your sorrows, your memories and your ambitions, your sense of personal identity and free will, are in fact no more than the behavior of a vast assembly of nerve cells and their associated molecules."

Delgado and Crick are real nice guys! People who would oppose secret weapons build up and their use on civilians don't believe there are people who are that mean. If nothing like that is on the table, why does the Homeland Security think it needs a detailed topographic map of the country?

The document concludes with a call to take seriously the founders' statement in the Declaration of Independence that the time comes in a democracy when a government must be disassembled and rebuilt from the ground up. An unlimited budget of unknown amount, to build unknown weapons to be used to kill civilians for no apparent reason, does indeed qualify as the final insult, and proper justification for overhaul. Since writing these posts I've come to think people won't believe any of it until everyone in the world has been exterminated. Hopefully that's wrong. I also wrote a comment on a blog that a fundamental approach to breaking the corporate hold on our government would be starve the beast; that is, influential war industry vendors should see their markets vanish. Shortly thereafter Nick Turse had this fine article that points out almost everyone who manufactures anything in the country has defense as a customer. I've never purchased anything from 90 percent of the companies he names—but I'm particularly cheap, so that doesn't count. Earlier I had blog posts you can see here and here. There's a reference and link about inventor Stanley Meyer I omitted in this series. I cross posted at Smirking Chimp and DailyKos. The document had material about Tesla's death ray, city killing machine, unmanned aerial vehicles and many other things I omitted here.

Please read "US Electromagnetic Weapons and Human Rights" and share it.