According to New Scientist, the mysterious gas allegedly used to put the smackdown on Chechens and theatre-goers alike is all part of some secret global "non-lethal" crowd control device. Unfortunately this gas can't distinguish between those who are armed, and those who are not.
But how else to control 50 crazed terrorists using plastic explosive as underwear? No other way I suppose.
Talk of microwave beams is gaining poularity; but has been widely discussed in the dank halls of the conspiracy newsgroups. There's some other nutty methods as broken by New Scientist
These times are indeed dark; possibly to get darker... Miller has the right idea:
Boris has justgiven me a summary of his views. He is a weather prophet.
The weatherwill continue bad. he says. There will be more calamities, more death,more despair. Not the slightest indication of a change anywhere.
Thecancer of time is eating us away. Our heroes have killed themselves, or are killing themselves. The hero, then, is not Time. but Timelessness. We must get in step, a lock step. toward the prison of death. There is no escape.
The weather will not change.
Anyone dressing up as a sniper for Halloween? Abandon all hope all ye darkening my doorstep dressing as Eminem, Britney Spears et so on; for ye will get a carved pumpkin smashed into their spine and a large-ish lecture on the dangers of cultural imperialism. Who'd step into the ring with such a nutter?
Written on Tuesday, 29 October 2002