...well, at least he does say "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."
I'm not sure whether that's a cmopletely good thing, mind you.
[...] (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."
I think the fact that he's saying "We need new weapons to control the Americans in riots" should be a terrifying thought for everynoe who doesn't like the current administration. After all, *when* they steal the next election, your options are protest or silence, and they're making plans to fuck you up if you protest.
I'd rather the service run by and for rabid fundies, whose academy discriminates against those who are not rabid fundies, was not involved in crowd control at all.
You don't shoot protestors, whether it's with bullets or ray guns.
They've been using "rubber bullets" for awhile now -- what's wrong with those? This seems FAR more painful than a rubber bullet -- and yeah, I know those things can get pretty sucky.
I must agree with weaselking -- if they're thinking about having protests that get SO BAD that they need to be quelled by blasting beams of pure searing pain into the crowd... what are they planning to do to us?
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Date: 2006-09-13 04:12 pm (UTC)I'm not sure whether that's a cmopletely good thing, mind you.
[...] (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."
...you think?
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Date: 2006-09-13 04:16 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-09-13 04:53 pm (UTC)You don't shoot protestors, whether it's with bullets or ray guns.
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Date: 2006-09-13 06:57 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-09-13 08:10 pm (UTC)Watch some video of violent protest supression some time and tell me this won't be misused.
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Date: 2006-09-15 07:28 am (UTC)iz scawy.
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Date: 2006-09-14 04:38 am (UTC)I must agree with weaselking -- if they're thinking about having protests that get SO BAD that they need to be quelled by blasting beams of pure searing pain into the crowd... what are they planning to do to us?
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Date: 2006-09-13 09:49 pm (UTC)let's test them on americans that fire on canadian soldiers first.
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Date: 2006-09-14 04:36 am (UTC)Hmmmm. So it'll be better if we use it on our own citizens, and say it's nonlethal, but it's really not nonlethal? This just... this is just crazy.