Future Shock: Evidence of Plans to Torture US Demonstrators

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rj-eskow/future-shock-evidence-o_b_29911.html
Article by RJ Eskow
Future Shock: Evidence of Plans to Torture US Demonstrators

Remember this story from last week? "The Air Force secretary says nonlethal weapons such as high-power microwave devices should be used on American citizens in crowd-control situations before they are used on the battlefield." It's worse than we heard ... much worse. These weapons, which cause "intolerable pain" and have been condemned by scientists as mass torture devices, may be coming soon to a demonstration near you. And there are stranger and more lethal weapons where these came from.

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These revelations about mass "torture technology," and the Secretary's remarks, need to be viewed in the context of our collective "future shock." This Administration - which illegally uses the military to spy on Quaker peace demonstrators, violates laws and the Constitution with impunity, and degrades its country through torture - is literally capable of anything.

The idea of subjecting demonstrating Americans to group torture may seem unthinkable today. Yet a few years ago we couldn't have imagined that our government woul ban public demonstrations by forcing protesters into "Free Speech Zones" behind fences, miles away from other Americans. The unimaginable has now become real. This is only the next logical step, and it could happen soon.

Welcome to the Brave New America. Be careful out there.

Well-written and scary article. How have we become so degraded so quickly in our group ethos? At least the Hungarians had the capacity for outrage when they found out their leader was lying to them - that got them into the streets. We just sit by placidly and watch the Constitution and the Magna Carta and countless other moral and civil mores get flushed down the toilet.