The concept and tech isn’t new — even Tesla was thinking about it and others were working on related tech — but now it will be airborne. Just the tool needed to apply to a crowd of protesters not wanting to be forced into getting swine flu shots or pay for government health care or whatever else the government wants. Imagine if we equip cops with personal-sized versions. Gates would have been toast. Literally.
The Pentagon’s enthusiasm for non-lethal crowd-control weapons appears to have stepped up a gear with its decision to develop a microwave pain-infliction system that can be fired from an aircraft.
The device is an extension of its controversial Active Denial System, which uses microwaves to heat the surface of the skin, creating a painful sensation without burning that strongly motivates the target to flee. The ADS was unveiled in 2001, but it has not been deployed owing to legal issues and safety fears.
Nevertheless, the Pentagon’s Joint Non-Lethal Weapons Directorate (JNLWD) in Quantico, Virginia, has now called for it to be upgraded. The US air force, whose radar technology the ADS is based on, is increasing its annual funding of the system from $2 million to $10 million.
What about a national healthcare plan is so scary? I don’t get it, here in Germany, there are public plans and they are not bad, or are even good i would say. If you are rich, of course you can always buy your private plan and be happy with that. i dont get why some of american are freaking out over this? I mean sure, the healthcare industry wont like this, it means less money for them, but what is with people whoa re not involved it that? is the brainwashing so efficient than anything public is automatically perceived as bad?
Isn’t it that something like 47 million people are not covered in US? you really think a public plan is actually worse than no plan at all??? or you people don’t actually care about anyone else… what if someday you yourself lose your job and plan?? … and the cost, most of the same people seem perfectly fine with spending money on killing (wars) or jailing people, but not for healthcare??? And people actually protesting, seriously? why they are not doing that in Canada or UK if it is so bad over there? US is a very bizarre country.
All weapons research is cool.
I think I’d prefer soma gas.
Simple countermeasure: flexible metal screening used as a Faraday cage. Holes are smaller than the wavelength of the microwaves. The details are up to the rest of you…
So, we put a ministure Faraday cage around our RFID-enabled passports and drivers licenses and now, when we plan to protest our forced vaccinations, we put on our specially woven Faraday fabric “hoodies” – life is fun!