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justice432
11-02-2003, 01:34 AM
http://www.stevequayle.com/News.alert/03_Genetic/030115.mutant.super-soldie.html

http://www.stevequayle.com/index1.html (click on the news alert box many great articles related to this)

Pentagon dark lord Donald Rumsfeld is shoveling billions of tax dollars into the research furnaces of federal laboratories and private universities across the land in the wide-ranging effort to spawn "super soldiers," fired by drugs and electromagnetic "brain zaps" to fight without ceasing for days on end. The work is being directed by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)--yes, the same outfit now laboring under convicted terrorist-conspirator John Poindexter to build the "Total Information Awareness" network that will allow the government to monitor the electronic records and communications of every citizen.

The DARPA "war fighter enhancement" programs--an acceleration of bipartisan biotinkering that's been going on for years--will involve injecting young men and women with hormonal, neurological and genetic concoctions; implanting microchips and electrodes in their bodies to control their internal organs and brain functions; and plying them with drugs that deaden some of their normal human tendencies: the need for sleep, the fear of death, the reluctance to kill their fellow human beings.

The research is "very aggressive and wide open," says Admiral Stephen Baker of the Center for Defense Information. Indeed, the U.S. Special Operations Command envisions the creation of "iron bodied and iron willed personnel" who can "resist the mental and physiological effects of sleep deprivation" while relying on "ergogenic substances" to "manage" the "environmental and mentally induced stress" of the battlefield. Their bodies juiced, their brains swaddled in Prozacian haze, the enhanced warfighters can churn relentlessly, remorselessly toward dominion.

And the term "creation" is not just fanciful rhetoric: some of the research now underway involves actually altering the genetic code of soldiers, modifying bits of DNA to fashion a new type of human specimen, one that functions like a machine, killing tirelessly for days and nights on end. These mutations will "revolutionize the contemporary order of battle" and guarantee "operational dominance across thewhole range of potential U.S. military employments," the DARPA wizards enthuse.

mad dog
11-02-2003, 03:53 PM
I think I saw this movie too, back in the late 80's (I think) The good guy wins and America is saved

Travh20
11-02-2003, 09:29 PM
Its funny becasue the soldiers we have now can fight for days on end without stopping.

mad dog
11-03-2003, 12:33 PM
Those folks that just got shot down (helicopter)just got up and ran right back into action. :rolleyes:

silverbulletkc
11-03-2003, 12:45 PM
That's as funny as hearing about the government spending our money to regulate the size of holes in the vast imports of Swiss Cheese to America.

es347fan
11-03-2003, 12:47 PM
justice - They're all super soldiers. What you're crying about will only improve their chances of surviving on the field of battle. What's stopping you from joining up?

In Odder Words
11-03-2003, 03:52 PM
Like so many other things, high tech is a two-edged sword... which can be used fer good OR evil...

What makes me justalittle bit nervous is how often GOOD ideas become transmografied inta BAD ones...

Thanks, Justice, fer bringin' up a very important subject...