{"id":198870,"date":"2007-10-03T05:06:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-03T10:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/10\/03\/what-jesse-wendel-said\/"},"modified":"2007-10-03T05:06:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-03T10:06:00","slug":"what-jesse-wendel-said","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/10\/03\/what-jesse-wendel-said\/","title":{"rendered":"What  Jesse Wendel Said."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jesse Wendle of The Group News blog has this post on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.groupnewsblog.net\/2007\/10\/fuck.html\">the Amry&#8217;s new &#8220;Pain Ray&#8221;<\/a>.  I read about it a while back, and filed it under, &#8220;Mildly interesting&#8221;, wait for a slow news day.<\/p>\n<p>Boy, was I wrong.  Jesse makes it clear what this is all about, and I, in my tech geekiness, missed the big picture:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"><span style=\"font-size:180%;\">This will be used to torture.<\/span><br \/><\/span><br \/>It isn&#8217;t up for debate. It isn&#8217;t open for question. No matter how many safeguards we put on their sale.<\/p>\n<p>This will be used to torture. As the article goes on to say, quoting a goddamn Ph.D. biologist who specializes in how the brain perceives pain, &#8220;<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">They are so obviously useful as torture instruments.<\/span>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>There are worse things than dying. Being burned alive is one of them. Being burned alive over and over again and never being able to escape&#8230; Don&#8217;t talk to me about humane weapons which burn people without burning them till you&#8217;ve gone on a run with me and seen what teenager sisters look, feel, sound and smell like who&#8217;ve been burned to death but are still talking to each other because they just don&#8217;t fucking know they&#8217;re already dead.<\/p>\n<p>This box is a torture device.<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"> It&#8217;s morally wrong and an abomination upon the face of the earth<\/span>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> All emphasis is mine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jesse Wendle of The Group News blog has this post on the Amry&#8217;s new &#8220;Pain Ray&#8221;. I read about it a while back, and filed it under, &#8220;Mildly interesting&#8221;, wait for a slow news day. Boy, was I wrong. Jesse makes it clear what this is all about, and I, in my tech geekiness, missed &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1032,969,1025,1076,1168],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crimes-against-humanity","category-evil","category-technology","category-terrorism","category-torture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198870"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198870\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}