Free Press writer R Roy Blake just received recognition from Project Censored for writing the #16 top censored story of the year 2000, a report on the ghastly worldwide development of ethnically-targeted bioweapons (Jan/Feb 2000).

Now Free Press subscriber M. Mack has sent us notice of another chilling experimental weapon that may soon be in the arsenal of military and police forces. Or rather than being “chilling”, it is in fact rather warm. Specially designed microwave antennas can be trained on demonstrators or military targets, inducing fevers and seizures without death (unless of course your hand turns the control knob just a tad too far).

The weapon, which has been under testing by the US Marine Corps in Quantico VA, is still largely classified, and has received only scant mention in mainstream press, most notably a Gannett News Service article by John Yaukey, which was printed in the Seattle Times on April 1, 2000. According to the full Gannett report, the Microwave treatment “causes molecules in the body to vibrate faster than normal, which generates heat.” Large unanswered questions loom about the development of this technology; for example, who has been the guinea pig for these experiments?

Various protest groups and individuals claim that they have been the targets of microwave experiments in the last two decades, including a protest group for Women’s Encampment for a Future Peace and Justice which was allegedly targeted at Seneca Army Depot in New York, according to public testimony in support of a 1997 federal bill on bioethics, a copy of which was forwarded by Mr. Mack.

According to the Gannett article, sonic weapons which can “cause the adversary’s internal organs to vibrate, inducing a crippling nausea and severe pain” are also under experimentation.

Judging by the use of pepper spray, gas, and rubber bullets on nonviolent street-sitters in the WTO demonstrations in Seattle, the deployment and possible clandestine experimentation of such weapons could have grave consequences for both victims and governments held liable for damages caused by their use.