"In the past the individual could face risks and pressures with preservation of his own identity. His body could be tortured, his thoughts and desires could be challenged by bribes, by emotions, and by public opinion, and his behavior could be influenced by environmental circumstances, but he allways had the privilige of deciding his own fate, of dying for an ideal without changing his mind…New neurological technology, however, has a refined efficiency. The individual is defenseless against dicrect manipulation of the brain…" (Jose Delgado, 1969, neurophysiologist at the Yale University)

"Neuroscience is being increasingly recognized as posing potential threat to human rights".

(from the article on the annual public meeting of the French National Bioethics Committee in magazine Nature, volume 391, January 22, 1998)

On January 1999 the European Parliament passed a resolution where it (in paragraph 27) calls "for an international convention introducing a global ban on all developments and deployments of weapons which might enable any form of manipulation of human beings".

(http://www.europarl.eu.int/home/default_en.htm?redirected=1 click on Plenary sessions, srcoll down to Reports by A4… number - click, choose 1999 and fill in 005 to A4). It is our conviction that this ban can not be implemented without the global pressure of the informed general public on the governmnets. Our major objective is to get across to the general public the real threat which those weapons represent for human rights and democracy and to apply pressure on the governments and parliaments around the world to enact legislature which would prohibit the use of those devices to both government and private organizations as well as individuals.

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