Thought Control in Times of War - Should We Be Worried?

By [http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Lance_Winslow]Lance Winslow
Should the citizens of the world be worried about "thought control" weapons and devices? Well, consider if you will the Arab Spring and those outrageous events, and then think about how easy such weapons could destabilize a country, culture, society, or civilization. Oh, I see now I have your undivided attention, good, because I'd like to discuss this for a moment if you have a few minutes.
First, many nations have experimented with thought control, and many have studied the use of cult techniques used by religious groups and leaders as well. This is nothing new, the manipulation of the human mind and societies, and communities has been going on well before the printing press and mass media, and well before the Internet, social networks, and mobile computing. With all this practice, and the use of the latest high-tech devices, well, the powers that be, both good and perhaps nearing the definition of evil, have somewhat perfected these things.
Is anything being done about it? Militaries, politicians, corporations, religions, all with mass psychological tools of manipulation and mind control - scary stuff indeed, so what is being done to slow down the fast-moving exploits of such things? Well, from what I've heard; the military is terrified of more Congressional Hearings on the topic of "mind control" and there was even a rather huge brouhaha a few years back over the use of Satellites for mind control for military purposes, apparently someone suggested that frequencies could be sent down from space, I am assuming Microwaves to get large crowds to disperse or use as a force-multiplier in the battlespace, the Congress was outraged and even brought up the issue in congressional testimony.
Now then, in the intelligence community, you betcha, they are fully into such technology, and since it is covert, like the previous "heart attack" directional frequency weapons, it's a valuable tool to have around. The old "heart attack" directed energy machines that don't work on everyone, strong hearts and athletes can take much more than you'd expect and it needs separation from other people too, it's hard to keep directly focused on a single person in close proximity, and don't ask me how I know this. Okay so, the mind control devices do not seem to work so well on everyone either for various reasons.
So, who is using this stuff if the US Military isn't? Well, how about the Russians, Chinese, Iranians, Germans, French, and others? What about the covert branches of our government and the others? The Intelligence Community, much like the Black Projects for the Military, do not have anywhere near the level of oversight or scrutiny, which is why such technology would be used there instead, perhaps Blackwater too? I know you are cringing at this thought, I am just saying how things happen.
Luckily, some of these systems do not work as well as the conspiracy theorists think, but they can work well for some things, crowd dispersion (active denial) or milder forms of psychological, biological exploits. Perhaps even on politicians running for office up at podiums while on TV, remember Howard Dean's melt down, that is what it would look like if pointed at a politician giving a speech, and perhaps the type of behavior one might expect, and I am not saying that's what happened, just what we might observe if and when it did.
Can you begin to see the power such a tool has to exploit guerilla warfare players, terrorists, or politics in an opposing nation-state? Or increase riots via satellite, or mellow them out, depending on your desires or strategic objectives. Many might decry all this, but if the wrong dictator gets into power, that too could be a real problem, millions could die, and we could end up sending our own men and women to have to fight, and some die to defend against such a future radical.
Yah, I know, so who has the right to play god you ask? I'm just saying the capabilities exist.
Well, to answer that very good question, yes, there are many in the military that cringe on the thought of mind control weapons as well, but others see the value in using such technology to control aircraft like the USAF is working on now. DARPA has had great success helping wounded warriors operate their prosthesis so they could hug their children, lots of good comes of such technology too. Also Sony now has a patent to use these things for living room video games.
You'll have to excuse my bluntness, I am ethical to a fault, but non-religious, and my country comes first. I love technology and innovation, and I've seen the good, bad, and ugly too, just like you. Indeed, I hope you will please consider all this and think on it, even if those thoughts are not really your own!
Lance Winslow has launched a new provocative series of eBooks on [http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Ddigital-text&field-keywords=Lance+Winslow#/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Ddigital-text&field-keywords=Future+Concepts&rh=n%3A133140011%2Ck%3AFuture+Concepts]Future Concepts. Lance Winslow is a retired Founder of a Nationwide Franchise Chain, and now runs the Online Think Tank; http://www.worldthinktank.net
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