With Shot and Shell or "Modular Crowd Control Munitions" - We Must Bend to Empire's Will

Prozac and Zoloft are two of over 100 pharmaceuticals identified by the Penn State College of Medicine and the university’s Applied Research Lab for further study as "non-lethal calmatives."  These Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors (SSRIs), noted the Penn State study, "…are found to be highly effective for numerous behavioral disturbances encountered in situations where a deployment of a non-lethal technique must be considered.  This class of pharmaceutical agents also continues to be under intense development by the pharmaceutical industry…New compounds under development (WO 09500194) are being designed with a faster onset of action. Drug development is continuing at a rapid rate in this area due to the large market for the treatment of depression (15 million individuals in North America)…It is likely that an SSRI agent can be identified in the near future that will feature a rapid rate of onset."  

All of which seems to prove the old saw that, even if you’ve got 120 kinds of hammers, "When all you’ve got is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail." With shot and shell or "The Scream" and "Puke Ray," we must bend to Empire’s will or suffer the consequences. 

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Mike Ferner is a freelance writer and former Toledo city councilman. His book, "Inside the Red Zone: A Veteran For Peace Reports from Iraq" is just out from Praeger Publishers.

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