Technically these particular criminals — oddly, these days, defined as anyone doing anything that displeases a convicted fraud and rapist — don’t want to be aerosolized.
It's from the the Geneva Protocol, here's what Wikipedia says about it:
Use of tear gas in interstate warfare, as with all other chemical weapons, was prohibited by the Geneva Protocol of 1925: it prohibited the use of "asphyxiating gas, or any other kind of gas, liquids, substances or similar materials", a treaty that most states have signed. Police and civilian self-defense use is not banned in the same manner.
>or any other kind of gas, liquids, substances or similar materials
Very gentlemanly, no? Penetrating and even non-penetrating weapons are fine, but no permeating ones please, that's ignoble like ew.
A naive class analysis would say, but of course our glorious peacekeepers would immediately agree to not gas each other right after they figured out the stuff. Otherwise they'd just have all gassed each other to death by now. And then us few poor survivors would be left with nobody to gas us, and the environment probably ruined.
Why the hell do you think that only the rich can deploy chemical weapons?
It's extremely easy to build chemical weapons out of household cleaning supplies. You might even have the ingredients in your house already.
The reason why using them is forbidden by international law is that EVERYONE, rich or poor, looks at a weapon that makes everyone in a city block barf up their lungs and agrees that it should probably be illegal.
That is definitely a less noble way to die than a bullet. Mock it if you want, but you're wrong.
If you wanna do some Marxism, focus on the exemption for domestic use of tear gas. Banning chemical weapons is one of the few good things the world has done.
Well, who else besides an organized murder machine would come to apply chemical weapons in the first place? Some small-timers? That'd already be terrorism and is already not in question here.
If there's an exemption, I'd state it more generally: call it any way you like, but when a state does it, it's just called policy. Peace from the Bloodlands (Snyder 2010).
The political theory definition of "state" is "a group which claims a monopoly on violence in a given territory."
It's 2025 so we expect that violence to be done in accordance with the law and the will of the people, and no matter how much you snark about it that's a big difference.
Of course many terror groups have claimed that mantle for themselves. It's not in question, it's happened multiple times.
Re: "own" people I am referring to the situation in the USA as that is the topic of the post. I thought that would be clear. But more generally I'm referring to signatories of the Chemical Weapons Convention of 1997 like the USA and also followers of the 1925 Geneva Protocol when saying it is illegal and a war crime.
That's what fascinated me. There's people gassing other people and you say "we" like they're the same people. That implies you identify with both - obviously through the abstraction of a "nation" but... how
I still am having trouble comprehending that we are in a timeline where our own police are gassing US citizens. Don't they all take an oath to 'protect and serve'? Who do they think they are protecting and serving? We the People, that's who. That includes someone who is peacefully protesting these federal lawbreakers and oath breakers.
"I never eat a pig, 'cuz a pig is a cop." — House of Pain
Never trust the police, kids. Especially in America, where standing court precedent holds that the police are neither required nor expected to know what the law says.
Did you miss the part where they regularly KILL citizens?
They have always, since their inception, protected and served wealth and privilege, and they've always been willing to gas, torture, kidnap, or murder people to do it.
After this I kinda see why some protesters started wearing the silliest outfits possible.
But man oh man going after anyone with means who tries to help people who the government decides looks like an illegal immigrant is hell of an escalation. Can't have people keeping government accountable.
many, if not all, the technologys discussed and promoted here are integral to the new fine grained attempt at establishing a fascist police state, pick a country
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