Pentagon Confirms It Sought To Build A ‘Gay Bomb’
(CBS 5) BERKELEY A Berkeley watchdog organization that tracks military spending said it uncovered a strange U.S. military proposal to create a hormone bomb that could purportedly turn enemy soldiers into homosexuals and make them more interested in sex than fighting.Pentagon officials on Friday confirmed to CBS 5 that military leaders had considered, and then subsquently rejected, building the so-called “Gay Bomb.” Edward Hammond, of Berkeley’s Sunshine Project, had used the Freedom of Information Act to obtain a copy of the proposal from the Air Force’s Wright Laboratory in Dayton, Ohio. As part of a military effort to develop non-lethal weapons, the proposal suggested, “One distasteful but completely non-lethal example would be strong aphrodisiacs, especially if the chemical also caused homosexual behavior.” The documents show the Air Force lab asked for $7.5 million to develop such a chemical weapon.
I’ve tried to wrap my head around this idea for a few days now, and I’ve gotta tell you that this just might be the stupidest government proposal EVER. Insulting? Youdamnbetcha. Impractical? Without a doubt. Wasteful? You’re kidding, right??
What’s next? A chemical weapon that will turn enemy soldiers into Quakers? Right; everyone will sit in silent contemplation until they feel they have something useful to say. How about a weapon that turns the enemy into gaming addicts? They’ll be so busy with their X-boxes that they won’t be bothered to put up a fight. Why defend your country when you can be playing Halo 2?
Your tax dollars at work…or not….
“The Ohio Air Force lab proposed that a bomb be developed that contained a chemical that would cause enemy soliders to become gay, and to have their units break down because all their soldiers became irresistably attractive to one another,” Hammond said after reviwing the documents.
“The notion was that a chemical that would probably be pleasant in the human body in low quantities could be identified, and by virtue of either breathing or having their skin exposed to this chemical, the notion was that soliders would become gay,” explained Hammond.
That’s right; no more olive drab. You’d be able to tell that the bomb had worked when you encounter an enemy fashionably dressed, impecably coiffed, and obsessed with Queer Eye For The Straight Guy.
Good Lord…our tax dollars actually pay people to come up with ridiculous ideas like this? Somewhere, William Proxmire is spinning in his his grave….
