The future of crowd control? Microwave weapons

[BurtWorm]

Courtesy of Danny Schechter's News Dissector.

http://www.newsdissector.org/weblog/index.cfm

WHY SHOOT WHEN YOU CAN MICROWAVE?

The London Telegraph reports: "Microwave weapons that cause pain without lasting injury are to be issued to American troops in Iraq for the first time as concern mounts over the growing number of civilians killed in fighting.

"The non-lethal weapons, which use high-powered electromagnetic beams, will be fitted to vehicles already in Iraq, which will allow the system to be introduced as early as next year.

"Using technology similar to that found in a conventional microwave oven, the beam rapidly heats water molecules in the skin to cause intolerable pain and a burning sensation. The invisible beam penetrates the skin to a depth of less than a millimetre. As soon as the target moves out of the beam's path, the pain disappears . . . ."

[Spinzonner]

1. Does it have High, Medium, and Low settings

I predict great sales to cannibals and a Hannibal Lector product endorsement.

[MichaelHarris]

2. that does it

next protest I go to I'm taking a potato, butter, and sour cream.

[Vincardog]

3. How do you want your terrorist cooked?

[disgruntled_goat]

4. those fascists are in for a treat

when they aim that bad boy at my tin foil hat!

[MuseRider]

6. LOL

that was my first thought. We will just crackle and spark when they aim at us.

[unslinkychild1]

10. LOL

No shit. We may have to encase our whole BODIES in tinfoil now. Heh heh!

Call me a tin-foil SUITER from now on (as opposed to the terrorist-lovin' tin-foil HATTER).

HEY, I can start a new business, can't I? May I DREAM???

[Spinzonner]

5. Twilight Zone episode proved prophetic

"To Serve Man"

[punpirate]

7. Guess who the terrorists out of the beam...

... will be aiming for?

After the initial thrills, this will probably become very unpopular duty....

[unslinkychild1]

11. Obviously, OUR troops will be protected

How long before the "terrorists" find a magnet????

Do magnets work on tin foil? I am not well-versed in science.

[lostnfound]

8. What a disgusting future these Strangeloves have in mind for us.

It WILL be used to disperse protests and it WILL be used for torture, IMO. "Let's see how long we can follow that guy with this beam.."

[maveric]

9. Danny Schechter's News Dissector?? He was on WBCN 30+ years ago!

I used to love his show! This brings back memories from my days growing up in Boston.
Sorry for the hijack BurtWorm.

[BurtWorm]

13. 'S allright.

:hi:

I didn't know he was on WBCN. I lived in the North End off of Salem Street for a year in the early 1980s, and in a few addresses in Cambridge and Somerville as well.

[JSJ]

12. a microwave oven would be a better way to control...

...a crowd. As Gandhi said, "a hungry man is an angry man".