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Air Force Considered Gay 'Love Bomb' Against Enemies
FOX ^ | 06/12/07 | Unknown

Posted on 06/12/2007 11:58:23 AM PDT by Froufrou

The Air Force on Tuesday confirmed a report that in 1994 a military researcher requested $7.5 million to develop a non-lethal "love bomb" that would chemically alter the state of mind of enemy troops and make them want to have sex with each other rather than fight. Air Force spokeswoman Lt. Col. Cathy Reardon said the idea was proposed by an Air Force researcher at a lab at Brooks Air Force Base in Texas, but it was rejected by the Defense Department. Officials noted that the Air Force constantly is considering funding proposals. No money was spent, Reardon said, and no such weapons are being considered. The goal was to create a non-lethal weapon to be used against enemy troops. First reported by KPIX-TV in San Francisco, the discovery of the "gay bomb" proposal came from a Freedom of Information Act request made by Edward Hammond of Berkeley's Sunshine Project, a watchdog group that tracks military spending. As part of the military's goal of developing 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."

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Mondo bizarro
1 posted on 06/12/2007 11:58:26 AM PDT by Froufrou
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To: Froufrou

What if the wind blows in the wrong direction?


2 posted on 06/12/2007 11:59:23 AM PDT by Red in Blue PA (Truth : Liberals :: Kryptonite : Superman)
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To: Froufrou

Who used it on San Francisco?


3 posted on 06/12/2007 11:59:54 AM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: Froufrou

Make love not War!! lol


4 posted on 06/12/2007 11:59:56 AM PDT by Ancient Drive
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To: Froufrou

Did anyone tell Al Quada it was a placebo?


5 posted on 06/12/2007 12:00:03 PM PDT by IllumiNaughtyByNature (I buy gas for my SUV with the Carbon Offsets I sell on Ebay!)
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To: Froufrou

Heard this a long time ago.


6 posted on 06/12/2007 12:00:13 PM PDT by struggle ((The struggle continues))
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To: Froufrou

Accidental detonation in the San Fransisco lab scuttled the project.


7 posted on 06/12/2007 12:00:52 PM PDT by pissant
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To: Froufrou

Was it designated the BFU-69?


8 posted on 06/12/2007 12:01:49 PM PDT by E Rocc (Myspace "Freepers" group moderator)
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To: Froufrou
$7.5 million to develop a non-lethal "love bomb" that would chemically alter the state of mind of enemy troops and make them want to have sex with each other rather than fight.

They saved a bunch of money by spending $15 dollars on the bomb that made them want to have sex with goats.

9 posted on 06/12/2007 12:01:52 PM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: Froufrou

Damn. I think they tested this thing over San Francisco!


10 posted on 06/12/2007 12:02:00 PM PDT by ElkGroveDan (When toilet paper is a luxury, you have achieved communism.)
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To: Cicero
Chemtrails?
11 posted on 06/12/2007 12:02:09 PM PDT by fireforeffect (A kind word and a 2x4, gets you more than just a kind word.)
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To: Froufrou
This would be a perfect weapon for the Iranians, North Koreans Chinese, Venezuelans, Cubans...


13 posted on 06/12/2007 12:02:48 PM PDT by darkwing104 (Let's get dangerous)
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To: Froufrou

lemme guess: they tried starting with camel and goat pheremones


14 posted on 06/12/2007 12:02:56 PM PDT by verum ago (The Iranian Space Agency: set phasers to jihad!)
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To: Froufrou
The military considered funding an effort to look for pheromone/hormones to change soldier’s behaviour.

No funding spent, no chemicals considered, no contract let, no action taken.

It’s doubtful that such a compound exists in the first place.

What an exciting article about nothing at all.

If it did not have the emanation of a penumbra of sleazy sex it would never have made the news at all.

15 posted on 06/12/2007 12:03:56 PM PDT by DBrow
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To: K4Harty
Did anyone tell Al Quada it was a placebo?
LOL!
16 posted on 06/12/2007 12:05:13 PM PDT by samtheman
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To: Froufrou

Every time I read this, it occurs to me it me it might backfire: imagine our guys coming across muzzies ravaging each other instead of fighting. They might just collapse in helpless laughter!


17 posted on 06/12/2007 12:05:28 PM PDT by doorgunner69
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To: E Rocc
No. It was the BFU-66 (or the bigger 99). The BFU-88 was tailored for lesbians.
18 posted on 06/12/2007 12:05:52 PM PDT by fireforeffect (A kind word and a 2x4, gets you more than just a kind word.)
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To: samtheman

I laughed too as I typed.


19 posted on 06/12/2007 12:05:57 PM PDT by IllumiNaughtyByNature (I buy gas for my SUV with the Carbon Offsets I sell on Ebay!)
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To: Froufrou

Don’t Bomb- Don’t Tell?


20 posted on 06/12/2007 12:06:08 PM PDT by Mr. Brightside (Rudy Giuliani is just another "Empty Dress Republican")
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To: Froufrou
This tech is in the tube, 5 by 5.


21 posted on 06/12/2007 12:06:31 PM PDT by Diogenesis (Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum)
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To: Froufrou

Sure would hate to be part of the clean up operation after that. It would be more frighting then an actual firefight.


22 posted on 06/12/2007 12:07:05 PM PDT by rightwingextremist1776
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To: struggle

>>Heard this a long time ago.

Me too.... I don’t believe it was any big secret.


23 posted on 06/12/2007 12:07:13 PM PDT by MarineBrat (My wife and I took an AIDS vaccination that the Church offers.)
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To: DBrow
Some here need their daily fix of San Francisco bashing, you see they live in worlds where homosexuals and drug addicts and liberals do not live, so they have to complain about our city. Fortunately they are not hypocritical.
24 posted on 06/12/2007 12:07:34 PM PDT by SF Republican
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To: Froufrou

Pentagon Had Plans for ‘Gay Bomb’
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1848759/posts


25 posted on 06/12/2007 12:07:51 PM PDT by PAR35
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To: Froufrou

The project was scrapped after the ACLU sued to force the government to provide the chemical to the general public.


26 posted on 06/12/2007 12:07:57 PM PDT by Oldhunk
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To: E Rocc

BFU-69: to avoid friendly casualties, should be dropped from aircraft penetrating the enemy’s rear...


27 posted on 06/12/2007 12:08:15 PM PDT by verum ago (The Iranian Space Agency: set phasers to jihad!)
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To: Froufrou

all the more reason to get homosexuals out of our military. If we were working on this, rest assured the bad guys have been too.


28 posted on 06/12/2007 12:08:39 PM PDT by balch3
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To: Froufrou

29 posted on 06/12/2007 12:08:54 PM PDT by Brett66 (Where government advances ? and it advances relentlessly ? freedom is imperiled -Janice Rogers Brown)
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To: DBrow
You’re right, its a non-story. The mission of DARPA and like agencies is to check out really off the wall ideas. Most of them never pan out, but every now and then they find a winner. This one was so far out there research was never even funded.
30 posted on 06/12/2007 12:09:49 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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To: Froufrou

They did, however, seem to have developed one for making them like goats...........


31 posted on 06/12/2007 12:09:56 PM PDT by Red Badger (Bite your tongue. It tastes a lot better than crow................)
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To: Froufrou

Aparently a prototype was secretly detonated over Massachusetts...


32 posted on 06/12/2007 12:10:18 PM PDT by pabianice
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To: Mr. Brightside; Cicero; dead; wideawake; pissant; Red Badger; RexBeach; Millee

Are we having fun yet ping?

Don’t wait until Friday, drop your bombs now!


33 posted on 06/12/2007 12:11:04 PM PDT by Froufrou
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To: Froufrou

/Tinfoil On

This is total nonsense. Where did that 7.5 million really go? and for what black budget project?

/Tinfoil Off


34 posted on 06/12/2007 12:12:27 PM PDT by Shaun_MD ("You can't trust Freedom when it's not in your hands" - Guns & Roses)
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To: Froufrou

This is probably someone’s sense of humor gone bad, since it apparently was submitted thru channels and subject to (shall we say?) “discovery.

While working on a CCU in a military hospital in the early 70’s, the head Nurse submitted a proper consult channels to the Chief of Cardiology which read “why does shit stink?”. A few days later his response came back through those same channels stating “you must be living in sin, because mine doesn’t stink at all”. Just a little fun which we all enjoyed, using the forms and protocols of the Army. Of course this would probably cause them both to be tossed out today.

This gay bomb thing may well be the imprudent equivalent, and too too tantalizing to some who wish to tear at anything military these days.

fwiw, I don’t believe such a compound exists, but Lord help us if the faggot lobby ever gets its hands on it, LOL.


35 posted on 06/12/2007 12:18:22 PM PDT by Vn_survivor_67-68
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To: K4Harty

“Did anyone tell Al Quada it was a placebo?”

They got the goat version.


36 posted on 06/12/2007 12:19:34 PM PDT by driftdiver
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To: SF Republican
Some here need their daily fix of San Francisco bashing, you see they live in worlds where homosexuals and drug addicts and liberals do not live, so they have to complain about our city. Fortunately they are not hypocritical.

I live in the political cess pool of Illinois, I don't throw stones.

37 posted on 06/12/2007 12:20:02 PM PDT by Graybeard58 (Remember and pray for SSgt. Matt Maupin - MIA/POW- Iraq since 04/09/04)
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To: Diogenesis

thank you very much. i coulda died happy without seeing that image.


38 posted on 06/12/2007 12:20:41 PM PDT by driftdiver
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To: Froufrou

I sure wouldn’t want to be captured by the group we just dropped it on.


39 posted on 06/12/2007 12:21:27 PM PDT by mbynack (Retired USAF SMSgt)
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To: Vn_survivor_67-68

[/fairy dust]

ROTFLMAO! [but what if it’s not really funny?]


40 posted on 06/12/2007 12:22:44 PM PDT by Froufrou
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To: Cicero
Who used it on San Francisco?

Insects and animals would be at increased risk.

41 posted on 06/12/2007 12:23:04 PM PDT by OldCorps
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To: Froufrou

The research was later funded by Sigma Phi Epsilon’s rush committee and the end product was used at the famed Delta Zeta Rush Week Ball. There was no perceptible effect except on “Blue” Hamilton, who rushed for 177 yards the following Saturday against Yale and attributed his feat to “pent up aggression.” “Siggy” Jones made up with “Blue” the next week and they now have 3 children, 4 cars, 1 pool, and 2 barbecues in the Atlanta suburbs.


42 posted on 06/12/2007 12:24:52 PM PDT by Greg F (<><)
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To: fireforeffect

Chemtrails?

Chemtails.


43 posted on 06/12/2007 12:25:27 PM PDT by hdstmf
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To: Froufrou

Genius.


44 posted on 06/12/2007 12:25:33 PM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (BTUs are my Beat.)
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To: mbynack

Well, what happens if it drops on homosexuals? Do they revert? I didn’t think of that before your post...


45 posted on 06/12/2007 12:25:43 PM PDT by Froufrou
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To: Froufrou

But, But, But,

Homosexuality isn’t taught, it’s BORN.

/sarc


46 posted on 06/12/2007 12:26:07 PM PDT by Ro_Thunder ("Other than ending SLAVERY, FASCISM, NAZISM and COMMUNISM, war has never solved anything")
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To: Froufrou

Gay love bomb....Only our government could find a way...L.O.L.


47 posted on 06/12/2007 12:27:32 PM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: darkwing104

And Democratic Presidential Nominating Convention....


48 posted on 06/12/2007 12:27:44 PM PDT by Renfield
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To: Graybeard58
I don't throw stones. - Good, then you are not part of the "some" I was referring to. It would be nice if those stone throwers realized they swim in the same water we all do.
49 posted on 06/12/2007 12:28:50 PM PDT by SF Republican
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To: Cicero
Who used it on San Francisco?

Must have been the original live fire test site...

the infowarrior

50 posted on 06/12/2007 12:29:46 PM PDT by infowarrior
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