From: "Mark M." <markm@voicenet.com>
Date: Sat, 14 Dec 1996 12:01:03 -0800 (PST)
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: [No joke] The Feds may legally gas us
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On Sat, 14 Dec 1996, The Deviant wrote:

> On Fri, 13 Dec 1996, Lucky Green wrote:
> 
> > Folks,
> > Did you know that the Feds may legally test chemical and biological weapons
> > on the civilian population as long as they give 30 days advance notice to
> > the local bigwigs (so they can get themselves and their families out of the
> > danger zone)?
> >
> > This is not a joke. It is in the United States Code.
> >
> 
> No, they can't.  Development, testing, and use of Biological weapons is
> banned by the Geneva conventions (among others).  International treaty
> outweighs USC.

This still leaves chemical weapons.  Certain chemical weapons are explicitly
banned by treaties, but many of them aren't so the USG is free to test them on
anyone they want.  The U.S. military is also free to conduct training
excercises in heavily populated civilian areas.
http://www.erols.com/igoddard/copters.htm has an article about the military
conducting "urban warfare" training in major U.S. cities.

Mark
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