Brett Wagner is concerned about a new weapon which he describes as a Death Ray or Pain Ray.
I don't know anything more about The Death Ray except what Brett Wagner describes. Anyone ever hear of the thing?
Brett Wagner wants people to sign a petition. Before you sign a petition to ban a weapon take the time to become educated on it. If anyone has details to add please do so.
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From Brett Wagner word for word:
Dear Friend,
A couple of weeks ago I sent you an urgent
email titled
"The Most Shocking Thing I Have Ever Seen."
Since then, the California Center for
Strategic Studies
(CCSS) has been gathering additional evidence
that the
U.S. government has deployed a very dangerous new
form of
weapon in Iraq, apparently without congressional
approval.
We have now set up an online petition calling
on the
U.S. Congress to oppose the development and
deployment of
the "pain ray" and the "death ray":
http://www.PetitionOnline.com/DeathRay/petition.html
The petition also serves as a rough draft for
prospective legislation.
Enclosed at the bottom of this email is an
op-ed I've
written which is going out all across the country
next
week. It will fill you in on most of the
details. Thanks
to our efforts, this story is probably going to
be VERY
BIG very soon.
Over the past week I've placed a number of
phone calls
to my usual contacts on Capitol Hill, and several
key
congressional staff members are interested in
setting up a
joint meeting for me to brief them on these
issues.
(We've worked with many of these same staffers
on
previous legislation.)
We believe there is a very good chance we can
introduce
legislation right after the August recess, but
it's very
important that we get the ball rolling SOON.
A few on the Democratic side of the aisle also
believe
this could become a very big issue in the
November
elections, for all the obvious reasons:
mismanagement of
the war in Iraq, a dangerous new precedent, etc.
(That's not to say this should be a "political
issue" –
but the reality is, in Washington everything is
political
to some extent.)
Opportunities like this to make a real
difference in
the course of Human Events are the primary reason
why we
launched our think tank 7 years ago. Since we
are a small
tightly-run organization, we rely almost totally
on
contributions from regular people like you – that
means we
do not have any funds set aside to pay for this
trip to
Washington.
Please consider making a contribution today,
so that I
can begin making all the necessary travel
preparations to
go to Washington (booking a flight, lodging,
etc.) as soon
as possible.
Please don't wait for someone else to help us
– we need
you!
You can make a tax-deductible online contribution
to help
out with our efforts by clicking on:
http://www.thecaliforniacenter.org/contribute.php
Or by mailing your tax-deductible contribution
to:
The California Center for Strategic Studies
4882 McGrath St., Suite 230
Ventura, CA 93003
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"From the 'pain ray' to the 'death ray':
Have direct energy weapons already been deployed
by U.S.
forces in Iraq?"
By Brett Wagner
Nothing in my training or experience as a
national
security specialist prepared me for what I
witnessed last
month when viewing a newly released documentary
news video
concerning an extremely controversial new
generation of
U.S. weaponry which may have already been
secretly
deployed in Iraq. This sort of thing is not for
the faint
of heart.
For the past few years the U.S. military has
been
developing new technology based on "directed
energy"
yielding two new types of weapons.
The first, "Active Denial System," has been
nicknamed
the "pain ray" -- and with good reason. It fires
out
millimeter waves -- a sort of cousin of
microwaves, in the
95 GHz range. The invisible beams penetrate just
1/64th of
an inch beneath the skin, directly affecting the
nerve
endings, and a 2-second burst can heat the skin
to 130
degrees. Charles Heal, a widely recognized
authority on
nonlethal weapons who has dubbed the ray the
"Holy Grail
of crowd control," likened it to having a hot
iron pressed
against the skin.
Deploying the pain ray would be a clear
violation of
international law, which prohibits weapons whose
primary
intention is to inflict pain. Earlier this year,
a U.S.
military commander in Iraq requested that,
despite the
ban, the weapon be deployed immediately. But
following
the efforts of our organization and others
opposing that
request, Washington has indefinitely delayed any
deployment pending further testing and analysis.
The second form of directed energy weaponry
fires out
microwaves, a form of energy well known for its
use in
modern kitchen appliances. I have nicknamed this
weapon
the "death ray" -- and with good reason. Exposing
mammals
to microwaves is known to make them explode.
The documentary news video in question, which
was
released online recently (16 May 2006) by a major
Italian
news service, examines evidence that the U.S.
military has
deployed – dating back to the 2003 battle for
Baghdad
Airport – a new generation of weaponry likely
based on
firing microwaves. Viewer discretion is advised:
even as a
former professor for the U.S. Naval War College,
this goes
way beyond my comfort zone
Judging from the reported effects of the
weaponry, it
likely includes "speed of light" technology
defying the
generic term "laser" and it is my professional
opinion
that it also likely includes the use of
microwaves,
judging from the descriptions of bodies that seem
to have
inexplicably exploded.
However, I cannot imagine the scientific
explanation
for the cadavers that reportedly shrunk to the
size of
approximately one-meter in length after being
exposed to
some sort of ray (the cause of death) and then
inadvertently struck by bullets. Neither do I
have an
explanation for what one eyewitness describes as
a bus
transformed "like a cloth, like a wet cloth" and
shrunk to
the size of a Volkswagen. To me, it sounds like
a very
intense form of microwaves.
The statements by Secretary of Defense Donald
Rumsfeld
and General Myers excerpted from a 2003 archived
press
conference are especially revealing:
JOURNALIST: Mr. Secretary, can I ask you a
question about
some of the technology that you're developing to
fight the
war on terrorists, specifically directed energy
and
high-powered microwave technology? When do you
envision
that you can weaponize that type of technology?
DONALD RUMSFELD (appearing noticeably
uncomfortable with
the question): In the normal order of things,
when you
invest in research and development and begin a
developmental project, you don't have any
intention or
expectations that one would use it. On the other
hand, the
real world intervenes from time to time, and you
reach in
there and take something out that is still in a
developmental stage, and you might use it.
JOURNALIST: But you sound like you're willing to
experiment with it.
GENERAL MYERS: Yeah, I think that's the point.
And I think
we have from the beginning of this conflict… I
think
General Franks [commander of U.S. forces in Iraq]
has been
very open to looking at new things, if there are
new
things available, and has been willing to put
them into
the fight, even before they've been fully wrung
out… And
we will continue to do that.
Also noteworthy was the inclusion of footage,
albeit
very brief, near the end of the documentary of
the "pain
ray" being tested on a person identified as an
American
soldier. The person exposed to the ray obviously
experienced excruciating pain before ducking
quickly out
of the line of fire.
The closing remarks in the documentary by
highly-respected military analyst William Arkin
echo my
widely-publicized concerns regarding the
implications of
the pain ray for use in crowd control in the U.S.
– and
the potential threat to our basic civil
liberties, such as
our First Amendment rights of peaceable assembly
and to
petition the government for a redress of our
grievances
(not to mention undermining the norms expressed
by Sixth
Amendment prohibitions against cruel and unusual
punishment).
These types of weapons pose a dire threat to
the world
as we know it and their deployment must be
prevented at
all cost. At the very least, they could ignite a
new
global arms race, which in turn would lead to
increasing
global instability or worse.
We simply must not allow this "Brave New
World" to
enter our own.
_______________________________________
Brett Wagner is president of the California
Center for
Strategic Studies (www.TheCaliforniaCenter.org).
Additional research was provided by CCSS analysts
Jacob
Shepard and Clay Fordahl.
(The video cited can be viewed in English,
Italian or
Arabic by clicking on
http://www.rainews24.it/ran24/inchieste/guerre_stellari_iraq.asp)
_______________________________________
The California Center for Strategic Studies
is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) tax exempt educational
institute
as recognized by the U.S. Internal Revenue
Service,
and is incorporated in the State of California.
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Is he upset that a weapon that kills will be deployed? Is he also upset about "guns" with "bullets"?
Did Brett see this weapon while in orbit?
For the record, I do not know what the weapon looks like so I used an artist's vision of what it conjures to mind.
Mr. Dennert:
To introduce myself to you and your readers, I am an individual who cannot stand to see political figures (of any stripe) lie in order to get elected or to further their own personal or political interests. With only three months to go until our next elections, I have decided to don a mask and cape and become a crusader against "prevaricating purveyors of political 'poop' " and "boisterous buffoonery of bloviating BS" (I'm using more acceptable terms here in place of less acceptable colloquial words).
It seems like our local newspapers are no longer capable of giving us the real stories-behind-the-stories, nor of exposing the down-and-dirty political crap that goes on in our communities, so I plan to carry out a community service here to "scoop" up the details of all such "full of poop" political incidents and expose them for all to see! I'll even try to provide some toilet paper along the way.
While out on my first "poop patrol" this morning, I found your July 23rd posting raising the hue and cry, "Brett Wagner Strikes Again". It describes what appears to be Wagner's latest, and perhaps goofiest, weirdest concoction of pure unadulterated "BS".
Just a minute or two of Google research indicates that the issue surrounding the "Access Denial System" (death ray) weaponry Wagner says he has remarkably discovered has been under consideration by the Defense Department and has been floating around Washington for at least three years, and, in fact, has been the topic of much discussion by the media, Congress, and Master Pundits during that time. In fact, that research also indicates that most, if not all, of Wagner's descriptions of these "death rays" are lifted directly from publicly-available documents and press clippings which have been around for all that time as well.
So, you are right, Mr. Dennert, Wagner strikes again! His postings make it look like he is the one who "discovered" the dastardly doings of Rumsfeld Et Al to put a little "sizzle" into future battles. He claims that he has raised the issue with his "usual contacts on Capitol Hill" who are excitedly awaiting his imminent arrival on a white steed to sound the clarion call that will save the world. And, of course, they are, themselves, all chomping at the bit and frothing at the mouth to introduce legislation on his behalf to prevent the resurrection of the malevolent alter egos of Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers from the tombs of the science fiction graveyards.
If Ron Hubbard were not dead (or is he??), he would be proud of Mr. Wagner and his latest science fiction ruminations, and would probably extend to him an Honorary Doctor of Scientology Degree. Wagner's musings are like the "engrams" of Hubbard's mythical Dianetics, amorphous cells and molecules whirling around in the human unconscious state which are a total recording of every perception present while the body is unconscious and which need to be "channeled" in order "clear" the body of bad engrams. In other words, they are "pipe dreams"!
Of course, we now know from all of his press releases and blog postings that Wagner has been possessed of such engrammatic pipe dreams for years, only now they are getting even more bizarre than ever before. I'm wondering if his hilarious crusade to recall and replace Santa Barbara County Supervisor Brooks Firestone isn't just a lingering mutant engram.
I'm also wondering if his mutant engrams aren't also behind his other continuous delusions that he can earn a living and support himself by concocting all of these wild ideas and campaigns to get people to contribute money to his equally amorphous "leading think tank" ? The California Center for Strategic Studies.
Interestingly, he claims that his CCSS "staff" is supposedly looking into whether or not the military already has ray-guns which, when fired, can shrink a full-sized passenger bus down to the size of a VW bug and can also shrink a full-sized human body down to less than 3 feet in length, but they need more money to continue such studies. He admits that he cannot even afford the cost of traveling to Washington to warn the House and Senate that the sky is falling and the Martians are coming.
He pleads for donations, political and otherwise, over and over and over and over again, like a blind man playing a tune on his fiddle with his hat turned up on the ground so that passers-by can toss in gold doubloons. Didn't we hear those same plaintive pleas when he needed campaign funds to run for Congress, or to save the world from nuclear Armageddon, or to impeach Brooks Firestone?
Hopefully, most people have figured out by now that Mr. Wagner is playing a tune on us, and that his real persona has perhaps finally been revealed as the reincarnation of The Nutty Professor, the Wizard of Oz, the time-traveling Doctor Emmett Brown from "Back to the Future" fame, and the peripatetic Dr. Harold Hill, the cunningly conning "Music Man right here in River City", all flavored with a pinch of carefully-measured blarney from the "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels" and "The Sting" thrown in to add some spice to the mix.
While I'm on a movie kick here, let's close with something Captain Jack Sparrow from "Pirates of the Caribbean" might say "Arrggh, keep yer eyes on yer ol' treasure chests, mateys, lest ye find them spirited away, arrgggghh!"
So there, the poop has been scooped!
The "BS Pooper Scooper"
Mr (Or Mrs. or Ms.?) Scooper, did you see the video that he sent out with one of the e-mails about the weapon?
Do you know when it will be fully operational?