{"id":2979,"date":"2006-09-13T13:26:52","date_gmt":"2006-09-13T20:26:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/13\/secretary-of-the-usaf-shoot-americans-with-microwave-weapons\/"},"modified":"2006-09-13T14:14:50","modified_gmt":"2006-09-13T21:14:50","slug":"secretary-of-the-usaf-shoot-americans-with-microwave-weapons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/13\/secretary-of-the-usaf-shoot-americans-with-microwave-weapons\/","title":{"rendered":"USAF: Shoot Americans with Microwave Weapons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Someone recently asked me, &#8220;Why is it that you say America cannot be a republic and an empire?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Well, my friend, here is your answer: The Secretary of the United States Air Force <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2006\/US\/09\/12\/usaf.weapons.ap\/index.html\">wants to shoot you with microwave weapons<\/a> in order, he says, to justify shooting them at foreigners.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;If we&#8217;re not willing to use it here against our fellow citizens, then we should not be willing to use it in a wartime situation [and we <em>really<\/em> want to shoot them at foreigners as soon as possible].&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Now comes the test. Will he be immediately fired, or will we all soon see hippies burning on TV?<\/p>\n<p>(Comment over at <a href=\"http:\/\/thestressblog.com\/2006\/09\/13\/secretary-of-the-usaf-shoot-americans-with-microwave-weapons\/\">Stress<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Someone recently asked me, &#8220;Why is it that you say America cannot be a republic and an empire?&#8221; Well, my friend, here is your answer: The Secretary of the United States Air Force wants to shoot you with microwave weapons in order, he says, to justify shooting them at foreigners. &#8220;If we&#8217;re not willing to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-2979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2979\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2979"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}