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America’s Police Will Fight the Next Riot With These Stink Bombs
Defense One ^ | April 29, 2015 | PATRICK TUCKER

Posted on 04/30/2015 5:01:40 AM PDT by McGruff

As protestors and police officers clash on the streets of divided cities such as Baltimore, Maryland, and Ferguson, Missouri, some police departments are stockpiling a highly controversial weapon to control civil unrest.

It’s called Skunk, a type of “malodorant,” or in plainer language, a foul-smelling liquid. Technically nontoxic but incredibly disgusting, it has been described as a cross between “dead animal and human excrement.” Untreated, the smell lingers for weeks.

The Israeli Defense Forces developed Skunk in 2008 as a crowd-control weapon for use against Palestinians. Now Mistral, a company out of Bethesda, Maryland, is providing it to police departments in the United States, including the Ferguson PD.

Skunk is composed of a combination of baking soda and amino acids, Mistral program manager Stephen Rust said at the National Defense Industrial Association’s Armament Systems Forum on April 20. “You can drink it, but you wouldn’t want to,” said Rust, a retired U.S. Army project manager.

The Israelis first used it in 2008 to disperse Palestinians protesting in the West Bank. A BBC video shows its first use in action, sprayed by a hose, a system that has come to be known as the “crap cannon.”

Mistral reps say Skunk, once deployed, can be “neutralized” with a special soap — and only with that soap. In another BBC video, an IDF spokesman describes how any attempt to wash it via regular means only exacerbates its effects. Six weeks after IDF forces used it against Palestinians at a security barrier, it still lingered in the air.

Mistral says the United States military has expressed an interest in Skunk, if not yet placed an order. “We’ve demoed it at Fort Bragg. Why? Because they asked about it,” said Rust.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: baltimoreriots; riots; skunkbombs; stinkbombs
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To: Cletus.D.Yokel

“The Department of “Just-Us” will identify this as a “chemical weapon” and accordingly a WMD when used against US protesters.”

Unless it’s the TEA Party. Then it will be saving the country from revolutionaries and seditionists.


41 posted on 04/30/2015 6:06:34 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (two if by van, one if by broom)
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To: stremba
No. There’s no catapult with enough launch capacity for that!

Good point. Perhaps they would roll him in like a bowling ball??

42 posted on 04/30/2015 6:28:31 AM PDT by BlueMondaySkipper (Involuntarily subsidizing the parasite class since 1981)
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To: All

Unless they can deploy it with surgical precision this will literally blowback on them. One of the common components of riots is that they occur in densely populated areas that include innocent civilians. They start spraying this shiite around on people and all they will do is infuriate the fence-sitters.

Dumb idea.


43 posted on 04/30/2015 6:36:30 AM PDT by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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To: 1_Rain_Drop

Say, that is brilliant!


44 posted on 04/30/2015 6:37:27 AM PDT by Obadiah (Israel had King Manasseh, America has Obama.)
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To: McGruff
Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke: Obama ‘Quietly Enjoying’ Unrest in Baltimore

therightpundit ^ | 4/29/15

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3284576/posts

Not holding back one bit. Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke says O is “quietly enjoying” what’s going on in Baltimore because he’s a ‘promoter of division’ and has ‘benefitted politically’ from ‘dividing’ people.

Sheriff Clarke points out all the times President Obama has pitted one group of Americans against another. He also questions why Obama didn’t come out and speak about the Baltimore riots earlier. He was interviewed here on the Mark Levin Show

Clarke: Change In Baltimore Should Start With "Failed Liberal Democrat Policies"

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3284755/posts

Breitbart.com ^ | April 30,2015 | Ian Hanchett

Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke (D) blasted “failed liberal government policies” for miring people in cities like Baltimore in “generational poverty” and argued that change in Baltimore “needs to start in the politics, the failed liberal Democrat policies” on Wednesday’s “Hannity” on the Fox News Channel.

45 posted on 04/30/2015 6:37:52 AM PDT by Dqban22
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To: McGruff
Spray RIOTERS with “Liquid BANNA PEAL”. Guaranteed to Turn any RIOT int a “SLAPSTICK COMEDY RIOT.”
46 posted on 04/30/2015 7:05:48 AM PDT by SandRat (Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)
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To: JoeDetweiler

As a business owner I would prefer that odor rather than the smell of a smoldering business.


47 posted on 04/30/2015 7:20:14 AM PDT by Dave278 (Keep your change I will keep my freedom!!)
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To: buffyt
We used to live in San Marino Calif, there were so many skunks, they came out at night, and there was a dead squirrel on our street here in Tx, for weeks or months. Both odors are just horrible. I think this new weapon will work!

No it won't, it is to easy to duplicate and use against the police in their own neighborhoods. A simple drive thru throwing these out the windows would cause havoc in the neighborhoods of the police and the politicians. Of course in the neighborhoods of the politicians, the neighbors are already used to a foul odor.

48 posted on 04/30/2015 7:21:16 AM PDT by The_Republic_Of_Maine (In an Oligarchy, the serfs don't count.)
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To: EQAndyBuzz

Precise follow-up...Nicely played.


49 posted on 04/30/2015 7:49:46 AM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (Catastrophic Anthropogenic Climate Alterations: The acronym explains the science.)
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To: McGruff
B T T T ! ! ! ©

50 posted on 04/30/2015 7:56:57 AM PDT by onyx (PLEASE SUPPORT FR. Donate Monthly or Join Club 300! God bless you all.)
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To: McGruff

If it smells worse than a muslim it’s got to be bad!


51 posted on 04/30/2015 8:09:21 AM PDT by AlaskaErik (I served and protected my country for 31 years. Progressives spent that time trying to destroy it.)
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To: rockrr

All the reporters and “community leaders” could be doused, which sounds fine to me, but boy will they raise cain. Especially if this smell actually lasts for weeks as described.


52 posted on 04/30/2015 8:14:32 AM PDT by catbertz
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To: McGruff

Can it be loaded into paintballs?


53 posted on 04/30/2015 8:17:46 AM PDT by NorthMountain ("The time has come", the Walrus said, "to talk of many things")
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To: catbertz

I’d love to see a CNN Reporter get doused while reporting live.


54 posted on 04/30/2015 8:25:26 AM PDT by McGruff (It's not the crime, it's the cover-up they said.)
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To: McGruff

“dead animal and human excrement.”

Sounds like something that would attract the homosexuals.


55 posted on 04/30/2015 8:32:07 AM PDT by Gator113 (Cruz, Lee, and Sessions speak for me.... most anyone else is just noise.)
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To: BlueMondaySkipper

Maybe, but in any case, wouldn’t there be an Eight Amendment issue? I can’t think of any punishment crueler or more unusual than being hit by Michael Moore rolling like a bowling ball. :)


56 posted on 04/30/2015 10:09:51 AM PDT by stremba
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