THE ELECTROMAGNETIC PULSE OF DOOM LOBBY: Why is it a Republicans only club?
"...the de facto national policy of nakedness to all of our potentially EMP-armed enemies takes on ever more the character of national scale masochism. It is perverse, irrational, and assuredly not necessary or foreordained."
- Dr. Lowell Wood, electromagnetic pulse lobbyist, Lawrence Livermore Labs
Readers know we're faced with a host of apocalyptic threats in our war on terror. National doom by electromagnetic pulse attack is one such evergreen menace. While its threat advocacy lobby inside the Beltway appears small, it is tenacious. Once or twice a year it will place opinion pieces in the Post and the Washington Times and manage to hold congressional hearings on the subject.
While electromagnetic pulse doom is a 99.9 percent fictitious menace, everyone involved in the threat advocacy lobby acts the opposite. As a result, journalists must either play along or buy into it whole hog. Everyone has seen it on TV -- most recently in "Jericho" on Wednesday nights at 8:00 -- so it's just gotta be.
DD, with tongue in cheek, takes a comprehensive look at the EMP lobby and its representatives through 2006 at El Reg , here.
And if you enjoyed this entry, you sure won't want to miss related news in The Crackpot.
"...the de facto national policy of nakedness to all of our potentially EMP-armed enemies takes on ever more the character of national scale masochism. It is perverse, irrational, and assuredly not necessary or foreordained."
- Dr. Lowell Wood, electromagnetic pulse lobbyist, Lawrence Livermore Labs
Readers know we're faced with a host of apocalyptic threats in our war on terror. National doom by electromagnetic pulse attack is one such evergreen menace. While its threat advocacy lobby inside the Beltway appears small, it is tenacious. Once or twice a year it will place opinion pieces in the Post and the Washington Times and manage to hold congressional hearings on the subject.
While electromagnetic pulse doom is a 99.9 percent fictitious menace, everyone involved in the threat advocacy lobby acts the opposite. As a result, journalists must either play along or buy into it whole hog. Everyone has seen it on TV -- most recently in "Jericho" on Wednesday nights at 8:00 -- so it's just gotta be.
DD, with tongue in cheek, takes a comprehensive look at the EMP lobby and its representatives through 2006 at El Reg , here.
And if you enjoyed this entry, you sure won't want to miss related news in The Crackpot.
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