"A recently unclassified report from the Pentagon from 1998 has
revealed an investigation into using laser beams for a few intriguing
potential methods of torture. Some of the applications the report
investigated include putting voices in people's heads, using lasers to
trigger uncontrolled neuron firing, and slowly heating the human body
to a point of feverish confusion - all from hundreds of meters away.

"Pentagon report investigated lasers that put voices in your head"
http://physorg.com/news122567894.html

Department of "Defense", Bioeffects of Selected Non-Lethal Weapons
http://blog.wired.com/defense/files/Bioeffects_of_Selected_Non-Lethal...

ObQ:

The mass of men serve the state thus, not as men mainly, but as
machines, with their bodies.  They are the standing army, and the
militia, jailors, constables, posse comitatus, etc.  In most cases
there is no free exercise whatever of the judgment or of the moral
sense; but they put themselves on a level with wood and earth and
stones; and wooden men can perhaps be manufactured that will serve the
purpose as well.

Such command no more respect than men of straw or a lump of dirt.
They have the same sort of worth only as horses and dogs.  Yet such as
these even are commonly esteemed good citizens.
--Henry David Thoreau
Resistance to Civil Government, 1849

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The military caste did not originate as a party of patriots, but as a
party of bandits.
--Mencken
Minority Report, 1956