Non-lethal Weapons to Watch For

by Candace Etter

“Non-lethal” weapons to watch for

www.berkeleycopwatch.org

New weapons that the government designs and the police departments love are aimed at you! All agencies claim that the devices are strictly for “crowd control,” but monitoring agencies, like Human Rights Watch, and scientific organizations, like the Loma Linda University Medical Center, are rebutting their so-called “non-lethal” nature. As a matter of fact, many of these devices cause serious, long-term, irreversible damage to human beings. Imagine yourself at the receiving end of the following wonders of technology.

Most people have heard of pepper spray — well, there has been an improvement. A Pepperball Launcher hurtles a plastic ball filled with pepper dust from thirty feet away that shatters on impact (no danger to police officers), causing choking and coughing in targets. This is the police officers answer to taking “mentally challenged” individuals into custody. My thought is that they wouldn’t dare use this on “regular” folks because there might be repercussions which they could not dismiss by claiming that the person is “out of their mind.”

There is a new gun, the anti-personnel beam, which projects heat by sending an electrical current through a high-speed channel of ionized air from one hundred feet away, causing the skin of the victim to heat to 130 degrees Farenheit. Persons standing or sitting near the “target” are similarly effected, so it’s perfect for protest gatherings! At least, that’s what police claim it’s for.

Next is the vehicle-mounted device (VMADS) which disperses a concentrated beam of electromagnetic energy that can cause long term damage such as cancer and cataracts. The police call it a “people dissuader,” because they shoot it at human beings; if the contact is three seconds, it causes discomfort like a microwave burn. Anything longer than that kills, but the government won’t disclose details.

The taser is included here because it shoots electrical probes up to twenty-one feet away and generates fifty thousand volts of electricity to the target and is a police favorite! As a matter of fact, over 600 police agencies are already using it.

Human Rights Watch is fighting with the U.S. to permanently ban the dazzler—a laser designed to cause permanent eye damage because it is aimed at the eyes, resulting in blindness, folks. Another people-grabber is the sonic beam discharger, which causes sudden diarrhea in its victims.

The one that scares me is the low-frequency radio waves that some agencies suspect have “mind-control” capabilities . . . something to think about the next time you or your loved one might want to protest some scam, such as the PG&E “crisis.”

Isn’t it interesting how much money is poured into arms of destruction rather than research which would honor life and integrity? It is very frightening to feel that the novel 1984 by George Orwell is coming to fruition, where the privileged have deceived themselves into believing that the underprivileged do not merit dignity, rights, or life! What type of mentality would approve the use of such weapons on human beings?