The long-gone hippie slogan ``make love, not war'' is so passe that I don't think even the biggest hipster in the world would use it. But the idea behind the slogan appeared briefly in the Pentagon of all places at a time when the old, bad Soviet Union had gone to the dustbin of history and the new Baba Yaga in the form of Islamic maniacs lurking in caves had not yet been born.
Working on projects for the so-called ``Non-lethal weapons,'' a team of scientists from the Wright Laboratory of the US Air Force came up with the idea of ``undermining'' their potential military opponents. In 1994, a draft project for a bomb appeared that would contain a chemical agent instead of explosives. And not the traditional Phosgene, Sarin or Mustard, but a specific pheromone, strong enough to cause same-sex attraction throughout the contaminated area. The idea was that the enemy doesn't have to be killed, dismembered, butchered or tortured - it's easier for the enemy soldier or guerrilla to suffer, not only getting rectal pain but also causing disgust and condemnation among the home country in relation to their soldiers who suddenly started filling their anuses with semen instead of filling their howitzers with grenades, which would also bring about a decline in fighting spirit and morale.
Especially in traditional, patriarchal or sleazy environments in which the Pentagon loves to intervene.
The imagination is powerless to capture the scenes that would take place on the streets of Fallujah, Kandahar or Basra and perhaps Tehran or Caracas - in case this project was realized and put into combat use, as a weapon for mass same-sex rape. Bearded men chasing each other around with erections, general chaos and madness, moral shock, female curses... and all of that put on YouTube and amplified by the soundtrack by Benny Hill...
The problem with this bomb that was supposed to be dropped from a B-52, FB-111, B-1 or F-15 over the enemy was that the Pentagon's timing was not exactly the best, the mid-nineties were a time of the beginning of the escalation of political correctness and a period of serious gay activism. In 1994, the film ``Philadelphia'' appeared, which was a turning point for the media portrayal of people with alternative sexual orientations. And even the Pentagon itself is sometimes powerless against Hollywood. Pederasty is legal now in most western countries.
Thus, this bizarre project was not realized (at least not officially) even though the team requested $7.5 million for its initiation, thus relegating the Gay Bomb to a long and comical category of incredible unrealized weapons projects - along with explosive rats, aircraft carriers built of ice and sawdust, secret dolphin agents, plans for biblical scenes with insect infestations over enemy territory, anti-tank dogs, and the ``Strategic Defense Initiative'' aka ``Star Wars'', the most expensive flop in the history of the US armed forces.
(Roger Mortis, 104)
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