Fear Bombs

You gotta hand it to the warmongers' mad scientists - they're such busy little beavers earning their paychecks. Must be hard work coming up with innovative weapons to overcome all those enemies running around in their heads. They seem to be churning out new and adventurous ways of conducting warfare all the time.

Remember the "gay bomb", among other formidable and menacing contrivances?

"Most bizarre among the plans was one for the development of an "aphrodisiac" chemical weapon that would make enemy soldiers sexually irresistible to each other. Provoking widespread homosexual behaviour among troops would cause a "distasteful but completely non-lethal" blow to morale, the proposal says.
Other ideas included chemical weapons that attract swarms of enraged wasps or angry rats to troop positions, making them uninhabitable. Another was to develop a chemical that caused "severe and lasting halitosis", making it easy to identify guerrillas trying to blend in with civilians. There was also the idea of making troops' skin unbearably sensitive to sunlight."

Fun project: try to imagine them all deployed at the same time.

Now a new project is supposedly in the works to develop a way to scare the enemy into submission:

"American military researchers are working to uncover and harness the most terrifying chemical imaginable: that most primal odor, the scent of fear.
Pheromones are chemicals released by animals as signals to their own kind: for sex, for territorial marking, and more. They're often detected in the olfactory membranes. But there's more to pheromones than attraction. Many animals have an alarm pheromone which is used to signal danger; aphids, for example, use it to cause their fellow lice to flee.
Now, the US Army is trying to track down and harness people's smell of fear. The military has backed a study on the "Identification and Isolation of Human Alarm Pheromones," which "focused on the Preliminary Identification of Steroids of Interest in Human Fear Sweat." The so-called "skydiving protocol" was the researchers' method of choice."



Of course militaries have always tried to inject fear into the equation along with slicing up the enemy with swords or ripping them to shreds with shrapnel. From Extian crusaders catapulting Muslim heads over besieged city walls to buzz bombs to Wagner the point was to incapacitate the other guys so they would be overcome by your mighty prowess.

But this could just be make-work fun project time for pentagon professors, because I recall a strange phenomenon that occured during the first Gulf slaughter, Operation Desert Storm, that may have shown an already perfected terror ray.
Ferocious aerial bombardment began January 17, 1991. Even after massive pin-point air attacks, the Iraqis were still alive and well protected in their bunkers. They had electricity, entertainment and enough food and water to last for about six months. They also had equipment to tunnel out if prime entrances were blocked.
Yet so many thousands of Iraqi soldiers meekly surrendered that they overwhelmed the coalition's ability to handle them. They poured out of their fortifications, disoriented and hysterical.

"Four men came out of a bunker, weeping. One kissed the hand of his Marine captor, who was trying to reassure him, “It’s alright. You’re okay.”

A lot of people suggest that this was the first big test of HAARP - the High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program. If you haven't heard of it, it's an over-the-horizon Alaska based antenna array that uses the ionosphere to enhance communication and surveillance abilities, but with a lot more shadowy, sinister applications including weather modification and mind control.

If it was used to zap an army into frightened, shivering submission it wasn't the only time Iraqis were treated to electronic warfare. It seems the fascists love to use those poor civilians as lab rats, much in the same manner as, say, dropping atomic bombs on pristine Japanese cities. At the battle of Fallujah 2.0, the pentagon experimented with all kinds of filthy ways to to collectively punish the people living there for not realizing they had been conquered. Aside from white phosphorous bombs, poison gases, and exotic chemical weapons, there's plenty of evidence to show a concerted attempt to fry Iraqi grey matter into submission:

"The grunts call the plastic devices "poppers" or "domes". Once activated, each hidden transmitter emits a widening circle of invisible energy capable of passing through metal, concrete and human skulls up to half a mile away. "They are saturating the area with ULF, VLF and UHF freqs," Hanks says, with equipment derived from US Navy undersea sonar and communications.
But its not being used to locate and talk to submarines under Baghdad.
After powering up the unit, the grunts quickly exit the area. It is their commanders, fervent hope that any male survivors enraged by brutal American bombardments that damaged virtually every building in this once thriving "City of Mosques", displacing a quarter-million residents while murdering thousands of children, women and elders in their homes -- will lose all incentive for further resistance and revenge."

So all the attention grabbing stories of quixotic and fanciful weapons that we periodically are presented with may be just be red herrings. The reality is probably that the empire's electromagnetic arsenal is much more advanced and applications are far more sinister than we could ever imagine.