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."
Not surprisingly, the Air University, Maxwell AFB publishes an extensive bibliography on these weapons, but since 2001 it’s been civilian academia’s turn to belly up to Uncle Sam’s rapidly growing trough. In addition to Penn State’s Applied Research Lab, run as part of its Homeland Security Initiative, the University of New Hampshire established the so-called Non-lethal Technology Innovation Center with a grant from the so-called Joint Non-Lethal Weapons Directory, and John Hopkins University and MIT are just two of many other colleges chasing federal grants for this work.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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