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WASHINGTON Fifteen days before the 2018 midterm elections, as President Trump sought to motivate Republicans with dark warnings about caravans heading to the U.S. border, he gathered his Homeland Security secretary and White House staff to deliver a message: extreme action was needed to stop the migrants.
That afternoon, at a separate meeting with top leaders of the Department of Homeland Security, Customs and Border Protection officials suggested deploying a microwave weapon a heat ray designed by the military to make peoples skin feel like it is burning when they get within range of its invisible beams.
Developed by the military as a crowd dispersal tool two decades ago, the Active Denial System had been largely abandoned amid doubts over its effectiveness and morality. Two former officials who attended the afternoon meeting at the Homeland Security Department on Oct. 22, 2018, said the suggestion that the device be installed at the border shocked attendees, even if it would have satisfied the president.
Kirstjen Nielsen, then the secretary of Homeland Security told an aide after the meeting that she would not authorize the use of such a device, and it should never be brought up again in her presence, the officials said.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/26/us/politics/trump-campaign-immigration.html
Eliot Rosewater
(31,113 posts)If we are not allowed to have an honest election, well, I just cant finish that sentence, yet.
dawg day
(7,947 posts)Trump wanted "flesh-piercing spikes" and other torture devices to maim people trying to cross the border.
He's really a sicko. A physical coward with sadistic desires.
Mike 03
(16,616 posts)No words.
EarlG
(21,964 posts)Hmm, how does that work then?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_Denial_System
That's right -- the reason it "makes people's skin feel like it is burning" is because IT BURNS PEOPLE'S SKIN.
crickets
(25,982 posts)that a microwave weapon is essentially all about long range cooking.