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Armed Dolphins Released Into Gulf of Mexico
An anonymous reader writes "The Guardian is reporting on what may be the weirdest Hurricane Katrina story yet. Military trained dolphins may have been released into the wild by the Hurricane's devastation." From the article: "Experts who have studied the U.S. navy's cetacean training exercises claim the 36 mammals could be carrying 'toxic dart' guns. Divers and surfers risk attack, they claim, from a species considered to be among the planet's smartest. The U.S. navy admits it has been training dolphins for military purposes, but has refused to confirm that any are missing. Dolphins have been trained in attack-and-kill missions since the Cold War. The U.S. Atlantic bottlenose dolphins have apparently been taught to shoot terrorists attacking military vessels. Their coastal compound was breached during the storm, sweeping them out to sea. But those who have studied the controversial use of dolphins in the U.S. defence programme claim it is vital they are caught quickly."
The US military is getting way too much money if they have enough to experiment with stuff like this.
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Flipper??? I knew him as James, the Nigger-Hating Dolphin...
This is fairly simple. You see, now that Communists are weak, your government has no reason to keep military spending high. Thus, terrorists were invented in order to keep your nation from looming and long overdue economic recession. I believe that both fall into the category of "people we hate but really don't understand why, so they obviously stand for everything we don't stand for."
Thus, it's not a far step from Communists to Terrorists, to responsible drug users, to black people, to Canadians, and so on and so forth in that fashion.
As to how the dolphins know the difference, I really do not know. They obviously have been able to create a method to train them, perhaps the same method terrorist masterminds use to recruit and retain their tools? Social animals can be easily coerced by diabolical types. Offer them friendships (or in this case refuse social contact until a set of objectives is met) and they will do anything you ask, and believe it is right.
If this is the case, who is more evil; the U.S. doing this to protect innocent lives, or the 'terrorists' to protect innocent lives? Remember, innocent lives are always spared when the war is fought away from home soil; everyone in the opposing faction, civilian or not, is always considered grey.