I am so glad I am a forty-something, broken-down old man. I would never want to be a kid now. Grow up under this fascism? Forget it!
You know, I don't really blame the American kids for being "stoo-pid."
Look at the culture and society that has gone out of its way to lie, oppress and drug them. Is it any wonder they have turned out like they have?
Also see: When I Was a Kid
"Conflict follows device that drives away teen loiterers"
- Story Highlights
- High-frequency noise is similar to buzzing mosquito or nails on chalkboard
- It's audible only by those who still have sensitive cells on inner ears
- $1,500 device challenged overseas and in American towns
- Many adults laud Mosquito for its success in targeting loiterers
NEW YORK (AP) -- A wall-mounted gadget designed to drive away loiterers with a shrill, piercing noise audible only to teens and young adults is infuriating civil liberties groups and tormenting young people after being introduced into the United States.
Almost 1,000 units of the device, called the Mosquito, have been sold in the United States and Canada after the product debuted last year, according to Daniel Santell, the North America importer of the device sold under the company name Kids Be Gone.
The high-frequency sound has been likened to fingernails dragged across a chalkboard or a pesky mosquito buzzing in your ear. It can be heard by most people in their teens and early 20s who still have sensitive hair cells in their inner ears. Whether you can hear the noise depends on how much your hearing has deteriorated: How loud you blast your iPod, for example, could affect your ability to detect it.
"It's horrible, loud and irritating," said Eddie Holder, 15, who sprinted from his apartment for school one morning covering one ear with his hand to block out the noise. The device was installed outside the building to drive away loiterers. "I have to hurry out of the building because it's so annoying. It's this screeching sound that you have to get away from or it will drive you crazy."
And as with everything (like spying), it EXPANDS beyond what they told is it was going to be used for!!!
WAKE UP, America!!
Can't you hear that buzzing in your ear?!
The device has roiled civil liberties groups in countries where it's in use, including England, Australia and Scotland. England's government-appointed Children's Commission proposed a ban. That group describes it as a weapon that infringes on the basic rights of young people and claims that it could have unknown long-term health effects.
You don't say!
The $1,500 device has also been challenged in some American cities and towns that have proposed installing it, with some criticizing the tactic as needlessly cruel.
Santell said the noise can be heard by animals and babies but is bothersome only to children older than 12 and becomes unbearable after several minutes, making it a perfect teen-repellent. The same sound is used as a cell phone ring tone by deaf adults and is a popular download on the Internet.
So the people who are going to profit of this totalitarian device assure you it is safe for babies and animals.
Like the FDA assures drugs and food aren't harmful to us.
The town of Great Barrington, Massachusetts, banned the device last year after a movie theater owner installed one.
"There was an outcry, and people didn't like the idea of torturing kids' ears like that," said Ronald Dlugosz, a town official. "People here don't tolerate that kind of stuff."
Milford, Connecticut, faced similar resistance when the city announced plans to install the Mosquito in a park. It increased police patrols instead.
Elsewhere, there have been few or no complaints. A mall in Maryland announced plans to introduce the buzz to disperse skateboarders, and officials and police said they haven't had any outcry. A school district in Columbia, South Carolina, recently installed one on the grille of a school vehicle and another in a parking lot where students gather after high school games, with no complaints.
Yeah, you wouldn't want kids hanging out skateboarding or talking in a parking lot.
Better if they are behind closed doors or in the woods using drugs and drinking.
Better yet if they are serving in Iraq, 'eh?
"We'd have crowds gather in parking lots, and there'd be the usual trash talk, then you'd have fights," said Rick McGee, the school district's emergency services manager. "Now, there's no confrontation at all; they just get aggravated and leave within a few minutes."
Amazing how governments can trash-talk lies, invade nations and KILL MILLIONS, but that's not a violence problem!!
Only the KIDS are a PROBLEM.
And WhereTF do you think they LEARNED IT?
Santell, the device's marketer, said most of the company's inquiries are from major corporations and government agencies looking for a way to protect private property. Overseas, complaints arose when the device was projected into public spaces, like sidewalks.
Santell said it does not violate any noise ordinances but added that the company will soon be selling the same product with a higher "power," or decibel output, that will be sold only to government agencies.
That affects adults?
Carmen Ramirez, superintendent of the New York apartment building where Eddie Holder lives, described it as "a miracle."
"We used to have young men here all of the time, bothering people in the building and doing illegal things," said Ramirez, 50. "As soon as we put it up, they were gone, and they haven't been back. If they return, we'll just put up more."
A spokesman for the American Civil Liberties Union said the organization does not have a position on the issue. But James Alan Fox, a criminologist at Boston's Northeastern University, said that putting crowd-monitoring devices in the hands of private businesses and citizens is "dangerous."
"There is a significant problem with giving people a tool like this and empowering the public to take over the tasks of law enforcement," Fox said. "It can certainly be used in a way that's inappropriate, and without a doubt, it will be."
Nobody at Holder's apartment building could say where the loitering kids had gone after the Mosquito was installed.
Start hiding out and using drugs, maybe?
"I just deal with it, but I can't be around here for too long," Holder said. "If I am going to stand around somewhere, it won't be here."
So when is this device going to be used for CROWD CONTROL, readers?!!
NO MORE PROTESTS, so when they COME to GET your KIDS (Texas was a rehearsal) for the WARS and OCCUPATIONS, what are you going to do, parents? Oh, I'll protest!
Oh, NO YOU WON'T!!!
WAKE the FUCK UP, America, before this fascist government KEEPS YOU AWAKE FOREVER!!!!!!!
