Electromagnetic Weapon - Ethical Considerations

Ethical Considerations

1. Faced with peaceful, non-violent protestors, law enforcement officials having, say, airborne, brain-wave-synchronized, electromagnetic weapons at their disposal could covertly influence the protestors to disband without the demonstrators even being aware that such an effort was underway.
2. Law enforcement officials could also use an electromagnetic pulse device to knock out unshielded mobile phones and cameras, reducing the capacity of civilians present to document police activity.
3. Faced with rioting and overt violence a government could covertly create a perimeter fence of radiation through which the rioters could not pass without feeling unbearable pain.
4. Using electromagnetic weapons law enforcement officials could, over time, covertly harass a "person of interest" into committing suicide and thereby effectively admit his involvement in the crime.
5. A US citizen could, under the protection of the US Constitution, launch from behind drawn blinds a covert electronic attack on an unwanted, unsuspecting neighbor thereby influencing the neighbor to sell his house and move away. Even if the neighbor suspected - or knew - he was being harassed electronically he probably could not convince the authorities to search his unfriendly neighbor's home without his being able to produce indisputable evidence of the harassment. (And, since claims of electromagnetic neurological interference are often considered a mark of paranoid delusions, the victim would be understandably reluctant to attempt to do so.)
6. By way of an electromagnetic signal directed toward them from a hidden microwave-type antenna, a person looking at an item in a store window could be influenced to experience emotions very similar to those they would experience while sexually aroused. They could be thereby covertly influenced to buy the item.
7. Unknown to that population, a government or military could successfully attempt to calm the emotions of a small population of people enraged, say, by the murder or accidental killing of a child, through sophisticated electromagnetic radiation weapons.