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.
(*proven ineffective against OWS encampments)
I’m surprised the Palis noticed...
maybe somebody else has.
It might actually be a mating pheromone for the left.
Will it keep deer out of my garden?
When they act like an animal treat them like one.
Please, great Cthulhu, don't let this happen!
So, in essence, they are bringing in a catapult and are launching Michael Moore into the crowd???
I just had a brilliant idea!
“Riot Free Zone” signs
It’s cheap and effective.
On par with my humor.
Didn’t work on them, sold it to the US.
On par with my humor.
Didn’t work on them, sold it to the US.
tagline: Makes you more attractive... to flies.
wow......a guy at the gym, Israeli, was talking about this stuff just a couple hrs ago! The odor last for a loooooooooong time and doesnt wash off easily....cool!
No. There’s no catapult with enough launch capacity for that!
Welcome to America.
Um- couldn’t you have scooped up the deceased squirrel?
Whether it’s tear gas, rubber bullets, “Skunk” or acoustic devices, lessons learned in Northern Ireland must be examined. Yes, you can force an angry mob to disperse. That is easy. But all members of the demo won’t go home and take up gardening or knitting. Some will take up sniping and IED making. Prevent crowds from protesting, you will not get pacifism, you will get snipers and bombs.
It seems that the rights of law abiding citizens are a thing of the past. Why must any effort to control the animalistic, the thug and the criminal mob now result in discomfort and loss of use, comfort and peace for everyone. You may never be able to attend another sporting or similar event if the dimwits figure out they have this much power. Of course, they are too dumb to ever figure out the use of a gas mask, huh? These weapons would render the area in which they are used unbearable for both the thugs and business owners; not to mention potential customers, who would simply avoid the area.
You always get more of what you support and finance. I guess that’s why our cities are becoming thug Utopia. The nation will follow.
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