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Police say long range acoustic device only for communication
~CBC
Vancouver police have a new crowd control device capable of emitting painfully loud blasts of sound, just in time for the 2010 Winter Olympics, CBC News has learned.
The long range acoustic device (LRAD) can use sound as a weapon, emitting levels that cross the human threshold of pain and are potentially damaging to hearing. But it is also designed as a communications device that’s clearly audible up to a kilometre away.
Const. Lindsay Houghton said the device was first tested this summer as a public address system during the Celebration of Light fireworks events in Vancouver.
Houghton said police don’t plan to use the device for anything more than communication.
“The primary function we’re using the device for is its ability to communicate with very large groups with respect to crowd control, evacuations, tactical situations where we may need the loudspeaker portion of it,” he said.
Military design put to civilian use
The device, labelled as non-lethal, was designed for the American military and was first used publicly in North America in September as police in Pittsburgh tried to control anti-G20 demonstrators.
The device, which weighs about 40 kilograms, can be mounted on top of a vehicle. It is reported to be capable of emitting a blast of directional sound measuring an estimated 150 decibels at one metre away and an estimated 90 decibels at 300 metres.
Obfuscate, distract, muzzle, deceive, object, divert, lie.
The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
– Edmund Burke
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And it seems to me perfectly in the cards that there will be within the next generation or so a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude, and producing … a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies, so that people will in fact have their liberties taken away from them but will rather enjoy it, because they will be distracted from any desire to rebel by propaganda, brainwashing, or brainwashing enhanced by pharmacological methods.”
–Aldous Huxley, 1959
Repress U
How to Build a Homeland Security Campus in Seven Steps
By Michael Gould-Wartofsky
Free speech zones. Taser guns. Hidden cameras. Data mining. A new security curriculum. Private security contractors… Welcome to the new homeland security campus…
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Visit indymedia.org, you may already have a group of people working for change in your town. Or you might have something else that is similar.
Just look at how the independent press has flourished on the web compared to just a few short years ago. We are building to a crescendo. If you don’t have a blog, start one. If you have the means, print your own newsletter and distribute it for free.
Write, Publish,Speak UP, …Hit your local Wal Mart or church parking lot and put a copy under every wiper blade. We must be tireless. Eternal vigilance.
Build the crescendo until they can’t drown it out, until no amount of drugs, alcohol, reality tv, or shopping can distract them from it.
“Fascism in America won’t come with jackboots, book burnings, mass rallies, and fevered harangues, nor will it come with black helicopters or tanks on the street. It won’t come like a storm—but as a break in the weather, that sudden change of season you might feel when the wind shifts on an October evening: Everything is the same, but everything has changed. Something has gone, departed from the world, and a new reality will have taken its place. All the old forms will still be there: legislatures, elections, campaigns—plenty of bread and circuses. But “consent of the governed†will no longer apply; actual control of the state will have passed to a small and privileged group who rule for the benefit of their wealthy peers and corporate patrons.
To be sure, there will be factional conflicts among the elite, and a degree of debate will be permitted; but no one outside the privileged circle will be allowed to influence state policy. Dissidents will be marginalized—usually by “the people†themselves. Deprived of historical knowledge by a thoroughly impoverished educational system designed to produce complacent consumers, left ignorant of current events by a corporate media devoted solely to profit, many will internalize the force-fed values of the ruling elite, and act accordingly. There will be little need for overt methods of control.
The rulers will act in secret, for reasons of “national security,†and the people will not be permitted to know what goes on in their name. Actions once unthinkable will be accepted as routine: government by executive fiat, state murder of “enemies†selected by the leader, undeclared wars, torture, mass detentions without charge, the looting of the national treasury, the creation of huge new “security structures†targeted at the populace. In time, this will be seen as “normal,†as the chill of autumn feels normal when summer is gone. It will all seem normal.â€
— November 10, 2001
Moscow Times (English Edition)
I wear a button which says:
” Nation of Sheeple/Ruled by Wolves/Owned by Pigs”
http://www.alternet.org/world/98766/debunked:_ten_conservative_myths_about_national_security/
http://www.alternet.org/rights/60849/the_fear_of_terrorism/