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.
“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.
Good point. Perhaps they would roll him in like a bowling ball??
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.
Say, that is brilliant!
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.
As a business owner I would prefer that odor rather than the smell of a smoldering business.
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.
Precise follow-up...Nicely played.
If it smells worse than a muslim it’s got to be bad!
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.
Can it be loaded into paintballs?
I’d love to see a CNN Reporter get doused while reporting live.
“dead animal and human excrement.”
Sounds like something that would attract the homosexuals.
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. :)
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