GLENN BECK PROGRAM
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GLENN: Meanwhile there's a story out about a new heat-ray that we have. Some say we don't really have it. Others say we had it and we've had it for a very long time but we've just never used it. I hope we have a heat-ray. The story goes that our military commanders are begging for permission to use this heat-ray and here's what it is. It's a giant dish that sits on top of a Humvee. You point it at a group of people and everybody in the group of people, they think that their skin is melting off. It apparently causes excruciating pain. You think that you're on fire, but you're not. There's no lasting problems with this. That's what they say. There's no scars, there's no -- once you step out of the ray, you're totally fine. It's almost like a stun gun. The reason why we won't use it is because we're afraid what the rest of the world will say. They'll think that we're torturing people with it. So what. You want us to shoot them instead? That's more compassionate?

The Active Denial System, a non-lethal ray gun

What they want, the military wants to use it for these big rallies, when they have big rallies and people start coming out and they are out of control, they just want to put these Humvees there and, you know, turn the ray on if they start attacking the troops. Let them disperse because they're trying to put themselves out. I say great. I don't know why we don't have this heat-ray on the border, and I'm serious. Why don't we have -- you can't put a fence up? Why don't we just do this. Put a giant heat-ray all up and down this border and if you think that you are going to come across that border, well, God bless ya. You're going to be screaming in agony because you're going to think your skin is on fire and I'll tell you the reason why we don't do it is because of the animals, all the poor animals. They wouldn't be able to cross the border. I mean, a fence is bad enough, but a heat-ray? Hmmm. I don't know why -- you know, Stu, I think, disagrees with me on the heat-ray thing. You disagree with me on the heat-ray thing, right, Stu?

STU: I like heat rays. I like laser beams and I like supersonic cool magnifying glasses that do things that are fancy as well. I support very new technology in our wars. So I would say I am for them. I don't know that we necessarily have them ready to go.

GLENN: No. What I'm saying is do you -- do you think we should use -- I'm all for using them. Put them up. Let's go. We got them, use them. I would like everybody -- you want to protect the borders of Iraq and Syria? We've got 60% of the guys who are coming into Iraq are from Saudi Arabia. Good. Put a heat-ray on that border. I'm going to zap you with a heat-ray, you start coming across that border.

STU: Yeah, it's -- you know, it is a way to do these things without any lasting damage. So I mean, obviously you'd be for that. I don't -- I'm not -- I don't think you can say it's nothing, which is kind of how you described it this morning when we were talking about it which is like, it doesn't do anything and you -- I mean, it is, if it's excruciating pain it puts you in, I don't think it does nothing. I mean, it is --

GLENN: It doesn't break your bones, it doesn't cause permanent damage. Once you turn the machine off, you're totally fine.

STU: You could say the same thing, you know, for various forms of torture.

GLENN: Like water torture, I'm all for it. Dripping, the Chinese water torture, my sisters used to pin me down and just tap on my forehead all the time.

STU: I don't believe that works.

GLENN: I'm damn near insane.

STU: That's true.

GLENN: Could have played a role.

STU: That is some evidence to that. But I mean, I think -- I mean, it is, obviously you don't want to -- there's no need to cause pain to people, you know, who protesting for no reason. But when you need to disperse a crowd, if the military needs to do it, it's certainly better than firing rubber bullets at them.

GLENN: I think it is.

STU: I mean, you know, I think --

GLENN: I think it is. But the problem would be is everybody would fall to the ground (screaming) and then it would be -- I think that's an advantage. Stu yeah, yeah.

GLENN: Oh, jeez. The United States has a frickin' heat-ray?

STU: I was going to say it's an advantage because it doesn't give the media all the visuals. Like, when you throw tear gas at people and they all, you know, like -- they all run away and then they have the people where they're firing the rubber bullets and they've got the big, kind of like shields they walk at when they're getting rocks thrown at them. You don't get that footage with the heat-ray. People just run away and it's over.

GLENN: How about if they start coming down the road, we send Katie Couric in and we just say, guys, disperse or we're going to make you watch her show. I mean, maybe we're deploying Katie Couric as a secret weapon. I don't know. I'm not a military strategist. I'm not a member of DARPA, but I'm a thinker and I think that maybe that's -- don't rule it out.

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