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contracts for "Electro Magnetic Effects Research and "The ethics don't concern me," he said, "but they should Development" to Northrop Grumman, Voss Scientific, Lockheed concern someone else." Martin, Electro Magnetic Applications and SAIC, among others. We, the authors of this report, contend that human ethics should As early as 1996, the DoD viewed electromagnetic research and concern every person who believes in human rights and desires development as a key component in future wars. control over their own mind and body. Our brains control our bodies, In addition to DoD contractors, the realm of non-lethal weapons actions and thought processes. If the government and the scientists extends into the universities with millions of dollars in they employ perceive the human mind as simply a collection of scholarships and research fellowships. Pennsylvania State neurons, it then becomes possible to justify the surveillance of the University sponsors the Institute for Non-Lethal Defense human mind and body for national security purposes. Technologies (INLDT), the University of Medicine and Dentistry Under the cover of secrecy provided by claims of national of New Jersey has the Stress and Motivated Behavior Institute, security, researchers in service to higher-circle policy elites have the University of New Hampshire houses the Non-lethal implanted electrodes into human subjects to control minds and Technology Innovation Center, and many US military schools tortured prisoners and the mentally ill in efforts to find better have classes directly related to non-lethal weapons technology. "brainwashing" techniques. They have poisoned thousands with The US Joint Non-Lethal Weapons Directorate released a paper —_ atomic testing, experimented on young children using drugs, in 2004 on "Crowd Control Modeling and Simulation" which trauma and hypnosis, sprayed major cities with biological agents discusses behavioural changes induced in human populations. That to prepare for a future attack, overthrown governments, instituted the Department of Defense calls for new weapons systems designed —_ mass killings and engaged in every form of information distortion. to work on the psychological The current "War on Terror" has underpinnings of a population should revealed to the public some of the tools give human rights activists great cause that the military has been developing for alarm. If the government and the for decades. High- profile weapons ienti h mpl systems flash across the nightly reports Cognitive Liberties versus oe Ip tists t ey Safe oy of the major news networks, including National Security perceive the human mind as high-flying stealth bombers on grainy, Today the US and the UK are simply a collection of neurons, green-tinted video from the noses of becoming total surveillance societies "smart" bombs. On occasion, glimpses in the name of national security. it then becomes possible to are given through the media of what London, like cities across the US, is justify the surveillance of the one article dubbed "wonder equipped with cameras citywide. weapons"—weapons that fall under the aily human actions are recorded wit i military category of "non-letha Daily hi i ded with human mind and body for litary category of lethal video and voice recognition devices, i H weapons". while our email and computer usage is national security purposes. Power elites who fund and support monitored. Increased demand for efforts at supplanting the will of the resources, the erosion of middle people do so from on high. Their classes, war, poverty and environmental ability to redirect public attention disasters are historically factors leading to social uprisings and toward external threats and away from their own motivations in infiltration of political borders. As governments reinforce the effect silences opposition to their programs. By controlling the threat of terror, people increasingly turn to their governments for _flow of information in society, the power elites provide the public protection. with a limited choice in all matters that pertain to machinations of The US has a long history of human rights violations through government and corporate control. Given more advanced harassment, telephone tapping, video surveillance, behaviour technologies for the control of information, unscrupulous manipulation, torture, drug-induced states of consciousness and individuals who ascribe to a "might makes right" philosophy may psychological control. Congress's passage of the Military well find the ways and means of employing these technologies Commissions Act of 2006 put universal human rights outside the against those who would oppose their plans. oo scope of US policy. Today, the US government is using the most technologically advanced forms of surveillance and control along with § About the Authors: the propaganda of fear and intimidation against its citizens. The US __ Peter Phillips is a professor of sociology at Sonoma State University and engages in covert torture, covert imprisonment, increased censorship __ director of Project Censored. Lew Brown and Bridget Thornton were and the massive secret classification of government documents. principal researchers on this report. Lew Brown holds a degree in The prominent neuroscientist Francis Crick (now deceased) psychology and was the main writer and researcher on the historical stated in 1994 that "your joys and your sorrows, your memories _ sections of this paper. Bridget Thornton is a senior-level history major at and your ambitions, your sense of personal identity and free will | Sonoma State University and the primary researcher and writer for the are in fact no more than the behavior of a vast assembly of nerve —_ new EM technologies portion. The authors give special thanks to Andy cells and their associated molecules". Is it possible that today's Roth, PhD, for his editorial review. scientists in the employ of the US neo-conservative global- dominance policy elites believe the same? Editor's Note: In 2000 John Norseen, a neuroscientist interested in biofusion Due to our space constraints, we publish this article in abridged form; so (the relationship between humans and computers), stated: "If this we highly recommend you to view the complete report and endnotes, at research pans out, you can begin to manipulate what someone is _http://www.projectcensored.org. Some sections of this paper are thinking even before they know it." Norseen said he is agnostic __ included in the article "The Rise of the Global Dominance Group", by on the moral ramifications of this research and is not a "mad" Peter Phillips, Bridget Thornton and Celeste Vogler, published in NEXUS scientist, just a dedicated one. vol. 13, no. 6. About the Authors: Peter Phillips is a professor of sociology at Sonoma State University and director of Project Censored. Lew Brown and Bridget Thornton were principal researchers on this report. Lew Brown holds a degree in psychology and was the main writer and researcher on the historical sections of this paper. Bridget Thornton is a senior-level history major at Sonoma State University and the primary researcher and writer for the new EM technologies portion. The authors give special thanks to Andy Roth, PhD, for his editorial review. Editor's Note: Due to our space constraints, we publish this article in abridged form; so we highly recommend you to view the complete report and endnotes, at http:/www.projectcensored.org. Some sections of this paper are included in the article "The Rise of the Global Dominance Group", by Peter Phillips, Bridget Thornton and Celeste Vogler, published in NEXUS vol. 13, no. 6. 16 = NEXUS APRIL — MAY 2007 national security purposes. www.nexusmagazine.com