San Jose Police To Use Crowd Control Sound Wave Weapons
What's good enough to force a terrorist out of a cave
is good enough to make you fall into line
San Jose police are to begin using high tech sound wave weapons
that are designed to disperse crowds by firing concentrated beams
of sound at 150 decibels, causing intense pain and possible deafness.
The police department is to get $27,000 in state
grant money to purchase the device, which is the exact same model
used by armed forces against insurgents in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The dish-shaped, sonic weapon is officially called
a Long Range Acoustic Device — or L-RAD.
It seems that now that the government considers
the American people the enemy, defense contractors have a new
lucrative market selling high tech weapons, normally sold to the
military, to the police.
"Think louder than a jet engine. Think the
front row of a Metallica concert. Think of the piercing scream
of a smoke alarm - inches from your ear." reports Mercury
News.
"Police say it will be used mostly as a high-grade
sound system to clearly amplify a police officer's order at great
distances. But it can also be used as another of the department's
"less-lethal" weapons, along with Tasers and 40mm projectile
guns," the report continues.
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Alex Jones covered the use of sound wave and micro
wave weapons in his 2004 documentary, Martial Law: Rise Of
The Police State. Alex captured footage of the devices deployed
in New York by the NYPD during the Republican National Convention.
“If we’re not willing to use it here
against our fellow citizens, then we should not be willing to
use it in a wartime situation,” said Wynne. “(Because)
if I hit somebody with a nonlethal weapon and they claim that
it injured them in a way that was not intended, I think that
I would be vilified in the world press.”
In a 2004 LA Times article entitled The
Pentagon's secret scream sonic devices the manufacturers
of the weapons described how they can inflict pain--or even permanent
deafness:
"[For] most people, even if they plug their
ears, [the device] will produce the equivalent of an instant
migraine," says Woody Norris, chairman of American Technology
Corp., the San Diego firm that produces the weapon. "It
will knock [some people] on their knees."
American Technology says its new product "is
designed to determine intent, change behavior and support various
rules of engagement." The company is careful in its public
relations not to refer to the megaphone as a weapon, or to dwell
on the debilitating pain American forces will be able to deliver
with it. The military has been equally reticent on the subject.
The devices were also used
in New Orleans in the Hurricane Katrina aftermath
when private security contractors confiscated guns and forced
residents from their homes.
Mercury News provides this helpful guide to the
"less lethal" weapon:
Of course the LRAD is not the only loving device
the Pentagon has ready to roll for the new America.
Others, summarized here,
include the "Puke Light", the Nerve Burning Laser Beam,
the PhaRS gun (which temporarily blinds your everyday insurgent)
and the TASER Remote Area Denial (which stuns you with a "Star
Trek-style forcefield")
We have also previously reported on TASER international's
intention to produce a saucer
drone craft which could also fire the now familiar
Taser stun rounds.
Of course all of these devices are for your safety
and the good of freedom in America.
San Jose police are to begin using high tech sound wave weapons
that are designed to disperse crowds by firing concentrated beams
of sound at 150 decibels, causing intense pain and possible deafness.
