U.S. Ban to Prohibit 'Direct Energy' Offensive Weapons

Whereas offensive weapons based on directed energy / high-powered microwave technology are reportedly capable of unspeakable inhumane acts, such as causing humans to instantaneously explode;

And whereas offensive weapons based on directed energy / high-powered millimeter wave technology are reportedly capable of grossly inhumane acts, such as causing humans to experience excruciating pain, without leaving physical evidence of exposure or torture, and are designed for the specific and sole purpose of inflicting pain, which is a direct violation of international laws and norms;

And whereas offensive weapons based on directed energy / high-powered microwave and millimeter wave technology are reportedly being developed by the U.S. military and, as some evidence seems to indicate, may have already been deployed by U.S. forces in Iraq, in direct violation of international laws and norms;

And whereas these offensive weapons based on high-powered millimeter wave technology are reportedly designed for the purpose of dispersing crowds by inflicting excruciating pain, and therefore pose a potential and dire threat to U.S. civil liberties, such as our First Amendment rights of peaceable assembly and to petition the government for a redress of our grievances;

And whereas these offensive weapons based on high-powered millimeter wave technology could potentially undermine the norms expressed within Sixth Amendment prohibitions against cruel and unusual punishment;

And whereas the development and deployment of these weapons could lead to the beginning of a new global arms race based on directed energy weaponry:

We the undersigned hereby call on the U.S. Congress to immediately enact an outright ban on the continued development or deployment by the United States of any offensive weaponry, other than those used for intelligence gathering and dissemination, based on directed energy and high-powered microwave or millimeter wave technology.

Furthermore, We the undersigned hereby call on the U.S. Department of Defense to immediately withdraw to U.S.-based secure storage locations any of these weapons which may have already been deployed on foreign soil or international waters.