Testing non-lethal weapons and methods

[jody]

An administration spokesperson said non-lethal weapons should be tested on American citizens before being used on the battlefield and President Bush wants congress to approve non-lethal methods to interrogate potential terrorists.

Congress should test non-lethal interrogation methods on those who testify before committees before they allow such methods to be used in a never-ending war on terror.

[madokie]

1. this is what my friend/neighbor had to say about non-lethal microwave

Non lethal my arse. name blocked, my buddy,from 1969 to 1987 when he
died, told me about a Sailor that was on deck, washing a radar dish,with the
gun in the center in his middle somewhere, & some Idiot turned it on.
Wayne said it fried him and he was dead on the spot, the way I remember the story. That was a long time before microwave ovens were in use. My 2cents

[whistle]

2. Here is a link to a report by the USAF listing and describing

...non-lethal weapons which they have researched and in many cases already are using.

http://www.angelfire.com/or/mctrl/nonlethal.html

Also, here is a piece describing the non-lethal weapons already in use in Iraq

<on edit: and be sure to watch the 24 minute video at the end of this piece>

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COOKING CLASSES
Details of various directed energy weapons used by US forces in Iraq to knock out electronics, induce psychological passivity, and possibly even melt people and vehicles remain under tight military wraps. But world media is reporting deployment of portable “directed energy” weapons in neighborhoods as troublesome as any in the USA if foreign troops murdered Americans and destroyed their homes.

Dubbed “active-denial”, this supposedly “non-lethal” mobile microwave weapon was developed through the 1990s at the U S Air Force Research Laboratory at Kirtland, New Mexico, and the Marine Corps’ Joint Nonlethal Weapons Directorate.

Researchers soon found that frying flesh at a distance is not easy. With up to two-thirds of directed microwave energy scattered through transmission, the only way to heat skin painfully enough to encourage its owner to flee the area is to hit her with frequencies much higher than the microwave ovens linked to pathological changes in human blood chemistry.

A triumph of misdirected talents and treasure, a microwave array mounted on a Humvee can heat water molecules in the skin at a distance. But what makes this microwave weapon so appealing, say its PR-conscious boosters, is that projected agony equivalent to grasping a hot light bulb leaves no visible wounds—and stops instantly when the beam is avoided or removed.

Just how enthusiastically the rest of the world greets illegal gadgets wielded during an illegal occupation remains to be seen. International treaties signed by the United States ban directed energy weapons.

Legalities and morality aside, the numbers for the Pentagon’s latest energy weapon are impressive: 95-GHz transmitted energy tuned to penetrate flesh to depth of 1/64 of an inch at an officially admitted range beyond 1,000 yards.

By contrast, cell phones and portable phones have been shown to emit hazardous microwaves at “just” 2 to 6 GHz.

Despite an “earliest estimated” deployment in 2009, “heat ray” prototypes have been rushed to Iraq by a military desperate to improve the images of carnage being beamed into hundreds of millions of Muslim homes by an even more powerful beam weapon: satellite TV.
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http://www.willthomas.net/Convergence/Weekly/Microwaving_Iraq.htm

[Blackhatjack]

3. Doctors Report Injurys Consistent with Israel Already Using These

....there just is no "non-lethal" weapon. Used long enough, to inflict enough pain and torture, the victim will do anything(including suicide) to escape its use on him.