This was posted at OOIBC this past Sunday by The Buffalo In The Midst from My Buffalo River Home.
It is one of the saddest, most disgusting and sickest things I have have ever heard of being done to troops in Iraq by their leaders that I can recall. It turns my stomach. I am reposting it here FYI, because I think everyone needs to know this is being done….
Lean Mean (Drugged) Killing Machines – HR3256 Psychological Kevlar Act of 2007
Pentagon’s new lethal weapon
Sun, 20 Jan 2008 22:55:17The US Department of Defense’s wide-ranging ‘warfighter enhancement program’ is preparing grounds for the most lethal weapon ever.
Pentagon’s ‘the Psychological Kevlar Act of 2007’ puts forward the idea of using different drugs to insulate combat soldiers from the stressful psychological element of killing.
The move not only desensitizes them to the horrendous aspect of war, but also maximizes soldiers’ lethality by bypassing their moral autonomy.
Analyst Penny Coleman criticizes Pentagon’s attempt to peddle magic pills to chase away the horrors of war, saying: “The neurological and genetic re-engineering of soldiers’ minds and bodies is aimed at creating what the Pentagon calls ‘iron bodied and iron willed personnel… tireless, relentless, remorseless, and unstoppable.”
Barry Romo a national coordinator for Vietnam Veterans Against the War, also denounces the plan: “That’s the devil pill, that’s the monster pill, the anti-morality pill. That’s the pill that can make men and women do anything and think they can get away with it. Even if it doesn’t work, what’s scary is that a young soldier could believe it will.”
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and are now being used in a IMO cynical and immoral attempt to”prevent” PTSD by inducing soldiers in a war zone to lose a portion of their conscience.
http://www.battelle.org/soluti…
The more nasty Orwellian shit is gone, if you can believe that.
because there’s no possible way something this amoral could backfire or get into the wrong hands. No chance at all.
At least, it’s nice to see that our taxpayer dollars are being used to support the troops.
a handful every morning just in case there’s a shred of conscience left.
where the Enterprise came across a group of men who were killers without conscience. Turns out they had been trained as soldiers on a planet that was perpetually at war. When the war finally ended, they couldn’t fit back into the culture so they were sent off to live together on a remote planet.
I think this was one of the “Next Generation” Star Trek episodes. I don’t remember much else about it – but it struck such a chord we me I’ve never forgotten it.
As awful as this information is, I wonder if anyone has given a thought to the long-term consequences of creating killers without conscience. Can they turn it off when they come home? And does anyone care?