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US military’s ‘Gay Bomb’

// January 18th, 2010 // p2p

- | Off Topic:- Under the Lest We Forget and Oldies but Goodies department, there’s online censorship. And then there’s online censorship. “As of 1 February 2008, the Sunshine Project is suspending its operations,” says the site . “Although this website is no longer updated, it remains online as an archive of our activities and publications from 2000 through 2008. If you have any questions, please contact us by e-mail at tsp@sunshine-project.org. Thank you for your interest.” Pity. Because it hosts all kinds of amazing information and who knows what it would’ve turned up had it kept on going. But never mind. What’s still there is adequate proof that lunatics are running the asylum. A United States Air Force research laboratory came up with the Gay Bomb during a then $7,500,000 1994 non-lethal weapons research project. Um, Gay bomb? Yup. The idea? Produce “chemicals that affect human behaviour so that discipline and morale  in enemy units is adversely affected. One distasteful but completely non-lethal example would be  at strong aphrodisiacs,  especially if the chemical  also caused homosexual behaviour … ” The papers were taken offline “at the insistence of the United States Marine Corps”. But they’re back again , and we’ve reposted them here as well, just in case. Not only but also, “Scientists also reportedly considered a ’sting me/attack me’ chemical weapon to attract swarms of enraged wasps or angry rats towards enemy troops,” says a BBC story from the time, going on > > > A substance to make the skin unbearably sensitive to sunlight was also pondered. Another idea was to develop a chemical causing “severe and lasting halitosis”, so that enemy forces would be obvious even when they tried to blend in with civilians. In a variation on that idea, researchers pondered a “Who? Me?” bomb, which would simulate flatulence in enemy ranks. Indeed, a “Who? Me?” device had been under consideration since 1945, the government papers say. However, researchers concluded that the premise for such a device was fatally flawed because “people in many areas of the world do not find faecal odour offensive, since they smell it on a regular basis”. Captain Dan McSweeney of the Joint Non-Lethal Weapons Directorate told the BBC: “It’s important to point out that only those proposals which are deemed appropriate, based on stringent human effects, legal, and international treaty reviews are considered for development or acquisition.” (Cheers, Em) - … .. … and identi.ca More First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win ~ Mahatma Gandhi BBC – US military pondered love not war, January 15, 2010 Use free p2pnet newsfeeds for your site. Subscribe to - | | rss feed: http://-/feed -? -