U.S. Develops Electric Bullets to Fire Into Crowds

[Julius Civitatus]

Cue the Star Wars imperial march!
The "uber-Taser" is here:

U.S. Develops Electric Bullets to Fire Into Crowds

The government is developing a new generation of electric shock weapons that could be fired from across a city street or across a sports stadium. A Texas company called Lynntech is developing a projectile that can be fired from a shotgun or grenade launcher that sticks to the target and delivers an 80,000-volt shock for seven seconds. Further shocks can be triggered via remote control. (...)

The of Homeland Security is seeking alternatives with broader uses like light lasers or guns firing electric bullets to combat all manner of felon.

"People encountered can range from aggressors who are hardened criminals to mentally disturbed teenagers ... from protesting crowds that include children and elderly, to street gangs," the Homeland Security Department, which is soliciting prototypes from industry, said on its Web site.

Links:

http://www.boomantribune.com/story/2005/8/23/132750/438

http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=internetNews&storyID=2005-08-10T181836Z_01_TON065837_RTRIDST_0_OUKIN-CRIME-ELECTRIC.XML

Note the quote from the Homeland Security website. Everyone, just everyone is potentially an enemy! It's truly disturbing.

[SpiralHawk]

1. Finally, an accomplishment for the failed Bush administration

I knew they would succeed with something sooner or later.

[SteppingRazor]

2. If only we had a liberal media, we'd see this headline:

Homeland Security Department Calls for Electric Shock Weapon for Use on Children, Elderly.

:evilgrin:

[Julius Civitatus]

3. Or even this one...

Homeland Security Department Announces Use of Shock Weapons On "First Amendment Extremists"

Children and the elederly could be easily shocked with 80,000 volts via remote control

[rodeodance]

4. oh my Gawd!!

[SteppingRazor]

6. Also begs this question...

If this is what they use on protesting crowdds that include children and elderly, what do they use on protesting crowds that DON'T? :yoiks:

[mom cat]

16. AK-47's

[SteppingRazor]

17. Well, more accurately, M-16s, but you're doubtless right...

If Kent State set any sort of precedent.

[indepat]

5. The evolution of a police state will have reached maturation the first

time such weapons are employed on those just exercising their first amendment rights: the RW agenda is being brought to fruition right before our years as the idolatrous throngs chant four more years, four more years.

[rodeodance]

8. well, we know tasers were used on demonstrators in Philly--this is next

you can bet on that. new toys gotta be used.

[Julius Civitatus]

10. Here's some recent video evidence of where we are going

Pennsylvania police raids peace protesters last saturday:

http://pittsburgh.indymedia.org/news/2005/08/19803.php


Utah police raids a legit concert last sunday:

http://www.angrymobclan.com/facism.mov

[genieroze]

7. light lasers? Can we play Star Wars now?

[Kolesar]

9. 80 k in O-hi-o

[Quakerfriend]

11. Sick! ...........But, very funny, LOL!

Seriously now, in my mind these types of weapons are what will allow COMPLETE control over the people. Scares the daylights out of me!

[Kolesar]

12. They are designing these weapons to use on people like us

They have already abridged our constitutional rights of free speech and free assembly. We are getting to be like fascist Spain under Franco.

[maxsolomon]

13. "pushing little children, with their fully automatics

they like to push their weight around" - SOAD

go team america!

[slay]

14. Man.. all the f-ed up shit comes from Texas

(and Florida) :scared:

[Teaser]

15. I built something like that

in high school.

[wli]

18. demonstrations aren't going to last long as effective statements

I vaguely wonder why they're not killing peaceful demonstrators outright given their general proclivities, but at any rate, other strategies should are probably going to be more productive.

They are silencing the media so that the demonstrations are never seen. They are understating the numbers by orders of magnitude unchallenged. And they're brutalizing demonstrators en masse.

Demonstrations are getting very effectively counteracted.

[daleo]

19. ...a new Dark Age made more sinister,

and perhaps more protracted, by the lights of perverted science.

[Raiden]

20. wtf!!? How can they do shit like this!

[screembloodymurder]

21. Wasn't the Homeland Security Department supposed to protect

the homeland from foreign terrorists? Why do they need weapons for crowd control?

[Dave Reynolds]

22. For when we first amendment lovers

get rounded up for "re-education".