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Why This Doesn't Happen Anymore

posted 11 years ago by dickmarvel
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The CIA solved the problem of human conscience a long time ago. They use two methods of wiping memory ala Jason Bourne...

A. Subject the agent's brain to a short burst of microwave radiation at a specific frequency. This prevents the brain from transferring a short term memory into long term memory. It interrupts the process. You essentially forget what just happened.

B. Use of the drug scopalamine. This hideous drug is a date rape drug on steroids. It renders you completely susceptible to suggestion for a 72 hour period of time. In other words you'll do whatever someone suggests to you and won't question it. When the drug wears off, the victim gets violently sick for 24 hours and has absolutely no memory of the last 72 hours.

This is our tax dollars at work, folks.

[–] raf-33 11 years ago

Why not just hire nihilists like me? I have the compassion of a grapefruit, I'm banned from a friends house because I once threw her kitten over a 2-storey building, not out of cruelty, I was just asked to do it. Kittens are heavier than they look and have the aerodynamics of a handful of spaghetti.

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[–] shanayneigh 10 years ago

You sound like a psychopath, not a nihilist.

[–] Thiesi 10 years ago

One of the best posts ever! YMMD!
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[–] ivychick425 10 years ago

Um. What the *beep*???

[–] JackBluegrass 8 years ago

Scopolamine is an extremely potent alkaloid obtained from a plant. Its official use as a medication - for several legitimate purposes - in the United States goes back to the late 1890s.

If dickmarvel's implying that it's only a date rape drug, he's misleading you.

Scopolamine was used - combined with morphine - to produce an effect called "twilight sleep", during labor and for gynecologic procedures to create short-term amnesia of unpleasant emotional effects and pain.

E pluribus unum

[–] baran_erik 8 years ago

Good thing the other countries don't do it, huh?