http://edition.cnn.com/2006/US/09/12....ap/index.html

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WASHINGTON (AP) -- 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.

Acordiung to the RAYTHON site (http://www.raytheon.com/products/silent_guardian/) It LITERALLY cooks you. WTF? What are they getting prepared for?!@#?!@?#?!@#?!@?#

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As a non-US citizen, I know I'd feel a lot more comfortable getting zapped with something that had already been used to zap rowdy US sports fans rioting after their team lost the world series.

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Your link didn't work for me. Here is another:

http://edition.cnn.com/2006/US/09/12/usaf.weapons.ap/index.html

I just have to wonder, is turnabout fair play? Would it be ok for US citizens to test weapons on him?

Anyone see that South Park episode with the 'brown noise?'

I've heard that might be realistic some day.

I doubt it would see much use, though. Imagine the cleanup!

Twitch, I like your suggestion.

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Hey, Ted, don't hog those. Where can I get one, you now . . . just in case. Mistress Heather has a neighbor who wears aluminum foil hats. Maybe she knows something WE don't!

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Hey. This is serious business.

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I do not mind the idea of the test just so long as Secretary Michael Wynne, Donald Rumsfeld, the Pres. and Vice Pres. are at the front of the test croud. Cheney's pace maker could possibly redirect the waves leaving him standing after the other four fall or run.

It's better than using bullets or fire hoses.

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But it could melt the chocotale bar in my pocket.

For God's sake! Just don't carry any popcorn in your pockets - imagine the carnage...

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Hey Mistress has a Spring time hat just like that! Did you get that article off "The Onion?"

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with or without nuts?

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Not Hershey's. They are wrapped in aluminum foil, and the microwaves will bounce off and roast some other part of your body.

If you are part of a crowd of protestors, and you know such weapons will be in use, protest signs could be made with aluminum foil cores, to reflect the energy back to the source (or anywhere else for that matter).

Overall, I like the whole concept of non-lethal weapons, though I think sonic/ultrasonic devices would be more effective.

Regarding the Brown Noise, there evidently is such a frequency. Nicola Tesla used a vibrating platform in one of his experiments that apparently oscillated at a frequency which triggered urgent bowel movements. Probably a bad idea for crown control, unless you have a really crazy sense of humor.

I am amazed that there has not been much "sound gun" development. Using nothing but hollow tubes of various length and diameter (in proportion to the length of the sound wave you are projecting), and industrial strength speaker cones, you could do a LOT of damage.

Years ago, a former coworker told me of Army sound gun experiments he participated in at White Sands proving ground during the 1950's. In one, they blasted a reinforced concrete wall, which was pulverized, and then tested the device on a cow and a dog, both of which flew apart "like jigsaw puzzles" he claimed. All this from a short burst from a hollow tube the size of a firehose.

The downside was that the operators and observers had to remain in a shielded bunker, as you could not get near the device when it was operating.

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ALWAYS with nuts.

If they use these things too liberally, though, no one will have to worry about crowd control for lack of crowds.

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