Is DARPA Preparing For Civil War II?

The government needs your help to find things to ban:

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), which is responsible for the development of emerging technologies for use by the U.S. military, is asking citizens to expose which household consumer items are capable of being transformed into weapons.

The new program, called Improv, is calling on concerned minds around the globe to help them prevent potential violence carried out with weapons made from regularly available items. The program is specifically seeking individuals from a non-military background who can reveal the ways in which common household technology can be manipulated and transformed for violent purposes.

They are ostensibly doing this for terrorism and foreign insurgencies, but terrorists and insurgents are fairly predictable. Google for Al Qaida Training manuals (and probably get a fresh new mobile surveillance team for free with your order), and you can see the step by step instructions, written for imbeciles, which these meatsticks are going to try to follow when prepping an attack.

This feels to me more like Fedguv thinking ahead, seeing a Soviet-esque economic collapse, worrying about a concurrent rise of a second civil war, and trying to figure out how the revolutionaries might improvise weapons with the stuff in their house. I’d post various possibilities, but I am sure the products would quickly be added to the classified banned list that nobody is allowed to talk about, and next thing you know you’d have to hunt around for piss poor alternatives that don’t work half as well as the simple products they banned. After watching detergents turn to shit over environmental concerns, I’m not helping anyone in government find a way to fuck up other products.

I do get a little bit of an amygdala tingle, as I read this. It makes me wonder if larger problems may be closer than we think, and the unrest they are predicting is going to come on much faster, and be much worse than I’d assumed to date. If the government is worried about people turning DVD players into anti-APC IEDs now, they may know something we do not. I’d even consider they are thinking about moving up the timetable and dropping the hammer on the full apocalypse to saddle Trump with it and make him a single term President.

Apocalypses in mirror may be closer than they appear – and they appear pretty fucking close already.