"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"
by Steve Watson
Infowars.net
Tuesday, Feb 26, 2008
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.
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.
Watch a clip:
The devices caused controversy again in 2006 when the Secretary of the Air Force, Michael Wynne, proposed testing the weapons on American citizens before deploying them abroad.
“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.
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