From Air Force Secretary Michael Wynne’s recent comments:

Nonlethal weapons such as high-power microwave devices should be used on American citizens in crowd-control situations before being used on the battlefield, the Air Force secretary said Tuesday.

The object is basically public relations. Domestic use would make it easier to avoid questions from others about possible safety considerations, said Secretary Michael Wynne.

“If we’re not willing to use it here against our fellow citizens, then we should not be willing to use it in a wartime situation,” said Wynne. “(Because) if I hit somebody with a nonlethal weapon and they claim that it injured them in a way that was not intended, I think that I would be vilified in the world press.”

What precisely does he think the American press would do when Americans are injured in unintended ways by such weapons?  That assumes, of course, the American press hasn’t already been disemboweled and defanged by then, a process the Bush régime is working diligently to complete by prosecuting reporters for publishing news the ruling class doesn’t like.

And following this logic, why haven’t they nuked cities that are normally considered Democrat/liberal strongholds?  Or carpet bombed our southern and northern borders?  Or even used rubber bullets against those protesting the president?

Oh, wait; they’ve already done that last one.

The fallacy in this pseudo-reasoning is beyond me.  Why?

The Air Force has paid for research into nonlethal weapons, but he said the service is unlikely to spend more money on development until injury problems are reviewed by medical experts and resolved.

He’s suggesting we test these weapons on American citizens while knowing they have to date been physically injurious.

Let me make a suggestion, Mr. Wynne: test them on yourselves, on those in charge, on those in Congress and the White House, and on military volunteers, but don’t aim that shit at innocent Americans just so you can feel better about aiming them at non-Americans during a time of war.  This is nothing more than planning — hoping to bring us closer to that police state you empty-headed assholes keep pushing for.  It’s also a product of reasoning which states we can feel better about the harm we bring others on the battlefield so long as we’ve already visited the same harm on our own citizens.

Give me a fucking break!

[via mArniAc]