QUOTE OF THE DAY
"The love of power is insatiable and uncontrollable. There is danger from
all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man
living with the power to endanger the public liberty."
- - JOHN ADAMS
Rhino here:
Polish writer Stanislaw Lem, in "The Futurological Congress" (1971),
described a future where disobedience is controlled with mind-altering drugs
he called "benignimizers". Lem's fiction begins with a fearful story of a
police biochemical attack on protesters at a scientific convention. As they
spray the crowd with hallucinogenics, the protesters descend into chaos,
overcome by delusions and feelings of complacency, self-doubt, and even
love. As detailed in the following article, the Pentagon's non-fiction
"Joint Non-Lethal Weapons Directorate" (JNLWD) is headed our way. Who was it
that said, in the future, being able to maintain sanity during high states
of consciousness will become a vital skill?
Pentagon Program Promotes Psychopharmacological Warfare
by The Sunshine Project - 1 July 2002 .
...(Austin and Hamburg, 1 July 2002) - The Advantages and Limitations of
Calmatives for Use as a Non-Lethal Technique, a 49 page report obtained last
week by the Sunshine Project under US information freedom law, has revealed
a shocking Pentagon program that is researching psychopharmacological
weapons. Based on "extensive review conducted on the medical literature and
new developments in the pharmaceutical industry", the report concludes that
"the development and use of [psychopharmacological weapons] is achievable
and desirable." These mind-altering weapons violate international agreements
on chemical and biological warfare as well as human rights. Some of the
techniques discussed in the report have already been used by the US in the
"War on Terrorism".
The team, which is based at the Applied Research Laboratory of Pennsylvania
State University, is assessing weaponization of a number of psychiatric and
anesthetic pharmaceuticals as well as "club drugs" (such as the "date rape
drug" GHB). According to the report, "the choice administration route,
whether application to drinking water, topical administration to the skin,
an aerosol spray inhalation route, or a drug filled rubber bullet, among
others, will depend on the environment." The environments identified are
specific military and civil situations, including "hungry refugees that are
excited over the distribution of food", "a prison setting", an "agitated
population" and "hostage situations". At times, the JNLWD team's report
veers very close to defining dissent as a psychological disorder.
The drugs that Lem called "benignimizers" are called "calmatives" by the
military. Some calmatives were weaponized by the Cold War adversaries,
including BZ, described by those who have used it as "the ultimate bad
trip". Calmatives were supposed to have been deleted from military
stockpiles following the adoption of the Chemical Weapons Convention in
1993, which bans any chemical weapon that can cause death, temporary
incapacitation, or permanent harm to humans or animals.
Calmative is military, not medical, terminology. In more familiar medical
language, most of the drugs under consideration are central nervous system
depressants. Most are synthetic, some are natural. They include opiates
(morphine-type drugs) and benzodiazpines, such as Valium (diazepam).
Antidepressants are also of great interest to the research team, which is
looking for drugs like Prozac (fluoxetine) and Zoloft (sertraline) that are
faster acting...
TO SEE THE ENTIRE ARTICLE, GO TO:
http://globalresearch.ca/articles/SUN207A.html
Reprinted under the Fair Use doctrine of international copyright
law ( http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.html ).
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Gary Rhine
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http://www.kifaru.com
http://www.dreamcatchers.org
http://radio.weblogs.com/0103207/
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