To Rumor Mill News, on January 15th, 2005
Regarding the curious reports of lasers targeting airplane pilots, I have an alternative hypothesis for your readers’ consideration.
Much publicity about lasers targeting airplanes has entered the public awareness via news media. This recent media campaign has sensitized the public to be aware of laser light in public places, especially laser light to and from high altitude.
Why would this be advantageous? What is the most serious threat of laser light at altitude?
Are pilots really being targeted to disrupt their eyesight to threaten the plane’s safety? This seems like a great expense
and risky manuever for someone to try to blind a pilot at such a distance [ and equally difficult to accomplish during a landing, with much greater risk of exposure to the one holding the laser ].
As an alternative explanation, perhaps this laser light is not just from ground-to-air but also from AIR-TO-GROUND. THIS is the essential feature of modern “smart bombs”, the ability to hit precise ground targets by first lighting up the target with laser light from on-high! Smart bombs have long been in the US arsenal and are now undoubtedly in the hands of a few select enemies of the USA, including well-funded “terror” groups.
Further, such technology could result in what is eventually reported in the media as a catastrophic fire, unexplained gas-line explosion, car bomb, train derailment with fatal toxic gas release, or missile launch failure.
The media blitz is training us to think that we are seeing laser light going from ground to air, but in effect it would look virtually the same as laser light going from air-to-ground! Is the public being trained to identify this characteristic feature of smart bomb technology?
The media has even shown us what a sophisticated laser targeting system looks like…just in case you were wondering what that funny dude next door keeps in the window of his hi-rise apartment. If so, this means our “enemies” have control/access to military quality laser targeted weapons.
The actual bomb itself can be released from the air, launched from a sub, OR it can be as portable as a shoulder launched ground-to-ground missile. The weapons manufacturers have long made such smart weapons for the military.
In this scenario, a very well-protected target vehicle (e.g. Nat'l Leader) can be “lit” with a difficult to spot laser beam (.from a distant building, airplane, or even satellite.) and a smart missile launched blindly from the back of a van in the general direction of the target and then flies on a direct line to the laser-lit target. A lethal potential if the techware
functions properly.
Conveniently, just this week Russia and US agreed upon global controls on portable launched missiles!
See:
http://www.mosnews.com/news/2005/01/12/ivanovinus.shtml
Putin and Bush are moving to identify and isolate ALL shoulder-launched missiles on the planet, and their global supply chains. This has been given VERY high priority. Such laser-guided missiles are relatively inexpensive, easy to covertly transport, and devastatingly accurate. Combined with the heightened sensitivity of lasers in public … it all shapes up to be a multifaceted program to counter the threat of shoulder-launched smart weapons in the hands of “lone-gunmen”.
Similarly, the defensive measures in place in D.C. for the January 20th Bush inauguration are unprecedented. You can bet more than a few sets of eyes and electronic sensors will be searching for stray laser light.
During World War II, civilian spotters were trained to identify enemy aircraft over the skies of American cities [ even though the longest-range Axis bombers were out of range ]. Today, are unwitting civilian spotters being trained to identify and report the occurrence of laser light from on-high?
Now, if we see laser light beaming across the cityscape we will first think it is someone trying to disrupt someone’s eyesight at worst and call it in. In fact, it might be much worse…such as a laser light painting a smart bomb’s ultimate target…US! No need to panic…someone is just playing nasty pranks with laser light…just call it in and go to sleep.
All of this suggests that US security forces have been threatened by such technology. Perhaps such smart bombs have already been used against US forces in Iraq or elsewhere. News of such an event would be a blow to Americans’ sense of technological superiority. Use of such weapons against domestic targets would generate much fear ( shock ) and uncertainty ( awe ) if it became publicly known. As always, much needs to be done behind the headlines to protect the republic and the people.
Serving Freedom
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