Want to protest? Watch out – the Air Force may want you to be its new guinea pig…

So according to CNN, the Secretary of the Air Force, Michael Wynne, thinks unruly U.S. mobs should become test subjects for new non-lethal weapons.

From the article:

“If we’re not willing to use it here against our fellow citizens, then we should not be willing to use it in a wartime situation,” said Wynne. “(Because) if I hit somebody with a nonlethal weapon and they claim that it injured them in a way that was not intended, I think that I would be vilified in the world press.”

Ummm… are you worried about only being vilified in the world press because our own press is already sewn up?¹

It seems to me that this is a very dangerous slope. How long before anti-administration protests are deemed “crowd-control situations” worthy of testing out the newest Air Force “non-lethal weapons”?

Scares the crap out of me, boys and girls. Something just ain’t right here.

¹ (Sorry, I watched Orwell Rolls in His Grave this evening, and am on a tear about the media. (Well, I watched as much of it as I could stomach – it’s a very well-done, apt documentary and analysis, but if you’re already acutely aware of the media problem in this country and deeply worried that the democractic system might not be fixable, it’s very hard to watch dozens of respectable experts tell you, effectively, that all of your worst fears are founded and that we’re probably screwed.))