Spooky Boys With Spooky Toys Source: Offline Illumination Future War: Non-Lethal Weapons in Twenty-First Century
Warfare by Colonel John B. Alexander, US Army (Retired)
(1999, St. Martin's Press, 254 pp.. $24.95)
Colonel John Alexander never met a war he didn't like.
As an unofficial spokesman for the Military-Industrial
Complex, Alexander has written a book called Future War in which he
continues to ply his trade -- promoting war -- and most importantly
advocating those all-important expendables called "weapons systems."
The oxymoronic "non-lethal weapons" which Alexander
touts are anything but. They include exotic systems like
electromagnetic weapons, chemical and biological warfare, so-called
physical restraints like goop guns, etc., acoustic weapons, as well as
information warfare technologies, which
include good old-fashioned military propaganda -- like his book
itself.
Without questioning the wrong-headed abstruse US
Government policies of war-making, he includes a brief history of
War's Greatest Hits in a chapter called "Are We the World's Police
Force?"
Alexander's answer is an unequivocal yes. These
include -- Restore Hope: Somalia; United Shield: Somalia Round II;
Uphold Democracy: Haiti; Bosnia; The Idaho Rebellion (just kidding).
Internet Bashing
In a chapter called "Information Warfare," Alexander
sounds the alarm about -- you guessed -it -- the "dangers of the
Internet." You see, those nasty hackers, crackers and phrackers are
out to get the Information Infrastructure.
How do we know? Alexander says so. "It is predicted that
anti-hacker software sales will increase from $1.1 billion in 1995 to
greater than $16 billion in 2000," he writes. "The President's
Committee of Critical Infrastructure Protection noted the increased
likelihood of computer terrorism and recommended that research and
development, now $250
million annually, should be increased $100 million per year until $12
billion is provided on a yearly basis."
No matter what the "security" problem, all we need to do
is spend more taxpayer dollars on the Military-Industrial Complex.
Secret Life of John Alexander
Virtually disregarded in this book is Alexander's spooky
background as a Psy0ps (or psychological operations) expert, as well
as a psychic warfare-mind control operative.
According to Alex Constantine, author of Virtual
Government (Feral House, 1997), Colonel John Alexander has displayed a
long term interest in the paranormal and "has actively promoted
psychic metal bending among government personnel using the techniques
pioneered by Jack Houck of McDonnell-Douglas."
Before his "retirement," Alexander had a 32-year career
in the Army, including a stint as director of Advanced Systems
Concepts Office, US Army Laboratory Command Alexander was also chief
of the Advanced Human Technology Office & Security Command (INSCOM)
and ran the "non-lethal" weapons
lab at Los Alamos in New Mexico.
Alexander allegedly also has a doctor's degree in
thanatology, the science of death.
British reporter Armen Victorian concludes that John B.
Alexander is an active operative assigned to a covert military group
"specializing in dissemination of disinformation," collectively known
as the "Aviary." In a
recent interview, David Morehouse, author of Psychic Warrior, (St.
Martin's Press, 1996) reports that "Alexander was a Special Forces
officer in Vietnam who commanded a Montagnard battalion. Others say he
was a member of the Phoenix Project [the notorious CIA assassination
program]. When he came out, he worked with the intelligence community
and he never left."
Later Alexander led a CIA harassment campaign against
Morehouse. Alexander, the "retired" colonel working for the CIA, Jim
Schnabel and Joe McMoneagle were all actively involved in spreading
disinformation Campaign against him on the Internet, says Morehouse.
Politically Incorrect Warrior
And why was Morehouse harassed? Morehouse was a
whistleblower who wrote a book called Non Lethal Weapons: War Without
Death (1996, Greenwood Publishing) with a politically incorrect
perspective. "Conventional weaponry is designed to kill. The new
hybrid conventional weaponry is designed to maim. Non-lethal weaponry,
by this definition, must be anti-materiel
and not anti-personnel," said Morehouse in a recorded interview.
"My book takes a very philosophical approach to the
concept of non-lethality," Morehouse continues. "It talks about what
conventional weapons have done in this century. They've taken the
lives of 170 million innocent human beings' lives -- doctors, lawyers,
professors, housewives, children --
not warriors. 80 million of them were summarily executed for their
refusal to participate, and that number continues to grow
exponentially"
"The nature of man will never change and therefore the
nature of war will never change," says Morehouse. "Only the way in
which wars are fought will change. All the so-called Star Wars
technology, the electromagnetic pulse weapons, are lethal high-tech
conventional weaponry. That's all it is. The 900 billion dollar a year
Military-Industrial Complex -- these greedy
war mongers -- who build and market weapons to third world countries,
don't want it."
"War is pure commerce and economics," says Morehouse.
"You can't expect those who are in the business of building weapons of
mass destruction to entertain notions of retooling the industry to
build weapons on the opposite end of the spectrum. It's too cheap.
Plus if you start saving lives
and killing equipment, then you force diplomacy to take its rightful
place as the tool of conflict resolution in the new millennium. So you
start to screw up this perpetual market of death and destruction."
PsyOps By Any Other Name
"Another IW [information warfare] subject that has long
been hidden from view is 'perception management,'" writes, Alexander.
"While everyone knew that perceptions played a major role in shaping
the outcome of conflict, the very topic was taboo. It smacked too much
of manipulating people in ways that evoked questionable legal
issues -- issues no one wanted to
address."
The subtext of Alexander's tortured bureaucratic jargon
is that even discussing Psy0ps -- psychological-operations aimed at US
citizens -- is still verboten.
Very tellingly, however, Alexander concludes that "in
the amorphous gray areas between peace and conflict, there is an
opportunity to apply non-lethal force selectively to prevent
escalation of conflict."
"Information warfare is an ideal tool for sending a very
strong message to potential adversaries. That message is that we have
the capability, intent, and will to use force -- Accede to our
demands!"
When the "potential adversaries" are your fellow
American citizens, "Accede to our demands!" reveals a sinister message
from the spooky colonel.
Paranoia Strikes Deep
"Another category of concern is against whom non-lethal
weapons might be employed," writes Alexander with his
characteristically blithe understatement.
"Paranoia is running rampant in the United States. We
have addressed the militia movements and surprising widespread support
that conspiracy theories receive."
"Distrust of the government by not thousands but tens of
millions of US citizens is confirmed in public opinion surveys," he
continues. "The skepticism and controversy has been fueled by recent
revelations that the US government has routinely lied to the people
about such varied topics as human radiation experiments, withholding
treatment in the Tuskegee
prison syphilis experiments, the oppressive actions of the Internal
Revenue Service, the amount and geographic area covered by fallout
from nuclear testing, and even UFO sightings."
"Many of these conspiracy theory adherents believe that
the government -- or some other supranational organization -- is
attempting to take freedom away from the citizens. Some of them see
non-lethal weapons as tools to facilitate those objectives. They
believe that these weapons could be used to enslave them for some
unstated nefarious purpose." Don't worry,
says Alexander reassuringly, everything's under control. You just
don't know how much.
"The fallacy of this logic should be readily apparent,"
he continues. "Sufficient force already exists to accomplish this
task. Therefore no new non-lethal weapons would be necessary."
Countermeasures
If you suspect that Alexander is at least disingenuous,
take a look at a video which documents high-tech electromagnetic
weapons. Exotic Weapons of Mass Control by Bob Fletcher is a two-video
tape report with live footage on laser, hypersonic, vortex, and
microwave technology weapons -- the
next generation of spooky killing devices. ($34.95; Available from
World News Insight, 675 Fairview Dr., #246, Carson City, Nevada 89701,
800-729-4131.)
Fletcher goes into great detail about the so-called
non-lethal weapons which have been developed by the New World
Orderlies with your mind in mind.
Another excellent introduction to the subject is
information security analyst Winn Schwartau's classic book Information
Warfare (Thunder's Mouth Press, 1996), which also contains a great
resource list of online information as well as hard copy titles.
And finally another really useful book is The
Professional Paranoid: How To Fight Back When Investigated, Stalked,
Harassed, or Targeted by Any Agency, Organization, or Individual by H.
Michael Sweeney (1999, Feral House,197pp.,
$12.95, http: wwwferalhouse.com)
As the late William S. Burroughs Jr. used to say,
"Paranoia is just knowing all the facts."
Sweeney says that the purpose of his book is "to help
the inexperienced to deal with forces intent on the invasion of your
privacy, regardless of whether it's the FBL CIA, IRS, or just some
idiot bent on causing you trouble."
More War? You Bet
"The final argument against non-lethal weapons as a
military option has been addressed throughout the entire book,"
Alexander continues whining. "That position is that the United States
should not engage in peace support operations."
As a Grand Master of Psy-Ops, Alexander really dwells in
the art of Orwellian double-speak. 'Peace support" is war, and war, of
course, is "peace support."
"I believe that point is moot," he continues. "As
earlier stated in this book, we have been involved in peace support
operations, we are involved in peace support operations, and we will
be involved in peace support operations."
So there. You can almost see him sticking out his tongue
at you. In other words, Future War by John Alexander is Psy0ps at its
finest -- confusion, obfuscation, and disinformation in calculated and
measured doses.
Alexander doesn't even provide a resource list of
manufacturers, Addresses and phone numbers, where citizen-civilians
can get the best "non-lethal" electromagnetic weapons money can buy.
For that information, try Top Secret Consumertronics, P 0. Box 23097,
Albuquerque, New Mexico
87192,505-237-2073, http:/ /wwwtsc- global.com).
As author William Gibson has aptly observed, the street
finds its own uses for high-tech inventions. The Van Eck System,
remote eavesdropping on computer and TV CRT signals, radionics gear to
repel electromagnetic energy attacks, and other handy self-defense
devices are all described in detail.
And what's the point of the old thanatologist's book?
Alexander's Future War is just another ruse by another Doctor of
Death. While civilians get disarmed with more onerous gun control
laws, the Military- Industrial Complex gets more funding for so-called
"non-lethal weapons."
Uri Dowbenko is CEO of New Improved Entertainment Corp.
He can be reached by e-mail at u.dowbenko@mailcity.com
by Uri Dowbenko
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