[Lurking2Long]

Would you like your Osama with fries?

[TheRedSoxWinThePennant]

[independentmind]

Another weapon discussed was a system that uses microwave beams to heat the water in human skin in the same way as a microwave oven cooks a meal.

Can someone point out a meaningful distinction between biological and chemical weapons and the above?

[demlosers]

It's simpler to just kill your enemy.

[Waco]

Installing these zappers along our borders may be the only way to stop illegals. Cross into to the U.S. at any place other than an official entry point and you don't get in. Smugglers, Mexico, NY Times and demoncraps will raise hell, so it be a good idea.

[jedwardtremlett]

pbbbbbbt!

EMP bursts, followed by sonic weapons, are the way to go if you want to disable an enemy in a fairly non-lethal fashion. Anyone flying or operating heavy machinery when the bursts go off is toast, of course, but everyone else can lie on the ground soiling their pants and unable to move until hostilities cease.

J

[Dan Day]

Several years ago I saw a fascinating TV show on one of the "info" cable channels (TLC, TDC, PBS, I forget which). Its topic was non-lethal weapons, both existing (e.g. pepper spray, rubber bullets, etc.) and experimental/theoretical.

One of the points the show made was very profound: It said that the good news was that with such weapons people could be deterred without having to kill them. The bad news was that since you're *not* killing them (and in some cases causing no lasting harm at all), governments would be far more willing to use them, since they wouldn't have to worry about the backlash that simply mowing down a crowd would cause.

The reason this is troubling is because it would encourage governments to use oppressive measures to "keep the peace" or simply suppress dissent whenever it arose. It's easy to picture a government developing a "if anyone causes trouble, zap 'em until they quiet down" policy. It makes the slippery slope towards a police state and/or dictatorship that much steeper and more slippery.

[Diddle E. Squat]

Army's secret 'people zapper' plans

I believe the admin moderators are already employing such a weapon:

[SteveH]

Black Bird

C. J. Coley

A Deadly New Beam Weapon and a Challenge to Freedom

[SteveH]

Black Bird

by Craig J. Coley

1995

http://www.coleygroup.com/commrepairdepot/Blackbird.PDF

An investigation of the mysterious April 15, 1995 crash
of a presidential helicopter near Washington, D.C.
in which the victims suffered radiation-like burns
and which was sparsely covered by the local and
national media.