fodders Posted May 12, 2003 The United States Army has developed and patented a new grenade that it says can be used to wage biowarfare. This is in violation of the Biological Weapons Convention, which explicitly prohibits development of bioweapons delivery devices. US Patent #6,523,478, granted on February 25th 2003, covers a "rifle launched non lethal cargo dispenser" that is designed to deliver aerosols, including according to the patentâs claims - crowd control agents, biological agents, [and] chemical agents.. The development of biological weapons delivery devices is absolutely prohibited - in any circumstance- by Article I of the 1972 Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention, to which the US is a party. There is no exemption from this prohibition, neither for defensive purposes nor for so called non-lethal agents. " Hans Blix might have an easier time finding illegal weapons if he were inspecting near Baltimore instead of Baghdad," says biologist Jan van Aken from the Sunshine Project Germany, referring to the fact that two of the inventors work at the Army's Edgewood Arsenal north of Baltimore, Maryland. Other inventors work at an engineering firm in Orlando, Florida, where the US Special Forces operate from MacDill Air Force Base. It's not funny guys! :P 0 Share this post Link to post
Alboroto Posted May 12, 2003 The unites states always do whatever they want... What's the surprise here. I support the zombie warrior program. 0 Share this post Link to post
IMJack Posted May 12, 2003 So tell your Royal Navy buddies to invade the US already. You're doing no good sitting there and complaining. 0 Share this post Link to post
Linguica Posted May 12, 2003 Patent for those that are interested BTW, we have tear gas launchers and smoke grenades or whatever, which I would classify as aerosolized gun-launched mawhosits, so what's the difference here? 0 Share this post Link to post
Little Faith Posted May 12, 2003 IMJack said:So tell your Royal Navy buddies to invade the US already. You're doing no good sitting there and complaining. But what can we do other than sit around and complain, my dear friend? 0 Share this post Link to post
IMJack Posted May 12, 2003 Little Faith said:But what can we do other than sit around and complain, my dear friend? Depends on how much you're willing to give to the cause. 0 Share this post Link to post
Sephiroth Posted May 12, 2003 The US never holds true to a treaty for long. i mean come on, look what we did to the native americans. right now we are the only remaining superpower and thus we do what we want. hell i am sure there is a ton of nasty inventions that are even worse. 0 Share this post Link to post
Sharessa Posted May 12, 2003 Heh. Speaking of TWAT, http://www.thecouriermail.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5936,6427074%5E1702,00.html Yeah, looks like the evil terrorists are at it again. 0 Share this post Link to post
fodders Posted May 12, 2003 IMJack said:So tell your Royal Navy buddies to invade the US already. You're doing no good sitting there and complaining. I did my 5 years IN the Royal Navy. Now outside pissing in :P 0 Share this post Link to post
Gokuma Posted May 13, 2003 http://www.downwinders.org/ http://www.wage-slave.org/scorecard.html 0 Share this post Link to post