Weapons Testing on American Citizens

For years, Americans have been used unwittingly as guinea pigs for military and pharmaceutical experimenation. The tests were kept secret and, when revealed, efforts made to expose the tests were ridiculed or attacked.

Well, we live in a different world now where the experimentation can be made public and defended as measures used to "protect our freedoms".

On Tuesday, Air Force Secretary Michael Wynne presented his position on why the use of high-power microwave devices on American citizens
is okay. Here's a section from the CNN article ( http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/09/12/usaf.weapons.ap/index.html ):

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."

So, what do you think? Do you feel comfortable knowing you are being used as a lab experiment? How about being viewed and used as an object without feeling or conscience, by some whose primary concern is the advancement and application of their power while maintaining a positive image?

Objective news here.

(Humming Steve Miller Band's "Living in the USA")

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