Fwd:Re: Non-lethal weapons acting via external manipulation of the Central

[patanie at my-dejanews.com]

In article <367625C2.4D2E0E48 at datafilter.com>,
  "Allen L. Barker" <alb at datafilter.com> wrote:
> patanie at my-dejanews.com wrote:
>
> >
> > Creating non-lethal weapons would be a humane way of treating barbaric human
> > conflicts.
> >
> > I am convinced that if we can get the necessary funds and researchers such
> > non-lethal weapons could be created in a near future.
>
> "Non-lethal" weapons in the hands of barbarians are torture implements.
>
> There has been an ongoing push in the US over the past few years to develop
new
> non-lethal (and lethal) anti-personnel devices.  There have also been efforts
(and conferences)
> by the Justice department aimed at the transfer of these
formerly-more-secretive devices to
> domestic law enforcement agencies.
>
> Related links:
>    http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~alb/misc/newsweekNonlethal.html
>    http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/970707/7weir.htm
>    http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~alb/misc/moreMindLinks.html
>

Hi Allen,

Thanks for the informations. I saw interesting things on the sites you
provided,but apparently nothing about inducing,by external means,akinesia or
loss of muscle tone,etc.

Best regards,

Claude


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