Posted on 10/01/2009 3:16:21 AM PDT by JoeProBono
PITTSBURGH (AP) -- Police ordered protesters to disperse at the Group of 20 summit last week with a device that can beam earsplitting alarm tones and verbal instructions that the manufacturer likens to a "spotlight of sound," but that legal groups called potentially dangerous.
The device, called a Long Range Acoustic Device, concentrates voice commands and a car alarm-like sound in a 30- or 60-degree cone that can be heard nearly two miles away. It is about two feet square and mounted on a swivel such that one person can point it where it's needed. The volume measures 140-150 decibels three feet
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“It’s not a sonic cannon. It’s not the death ray or anything like that,” Putnam said. “It’s about long-range communications being heard intelligibly.”
Oh, Ok.
I knew the day would come that these so-called non-lethal methods would be employed against civilians in America.
Sound volume comparisons
Volume, in decibels, of some everyday sounds and the maximum volume of a Long Range Acoustic Device:
Conversation: 60
Noisy restaurant, vacuum cleaner: 80-85
Circular saw, motorcycle, loud party: 88
Riding mower: 94
Sporting event, chain saw, snowmobile: 100
Rock concert: 112
Ambulance siren: 115
Jet engine, gunshot, firecracker: 140
Long Range Acoustic Device: 140-151
Sources: University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, American Technology Corp.
If its good enough to use on Muslim pirates its good enough to use on us /s
Coming to a Tea Party near you.
what manly men these be
fu%k those American citizens
BTW..know what the demonstrators were chanting at the police?
USA USA USA
so many NWO order globalists on freerep.
sad
Perhaps they could use them in Chicago.
gotta protect those bankers!
Police said they used the device last Thursday to issue prerecorded warnings to disperse when hundreds of demonstrators, including self-described anarchists, without a protest permit held a march that threatened to turn violent.I hate "self-described anarchists" (or, rather, I despise them) as much as the next guy. But this is not right. This should not be happening in the streets of American cities against American citizens.
Look at how easy it is for police to perceive that a situation "threatened to turn violent".
They've accused grannies at Tea Parties of "threatening to turn violent".
This is really bad. In a just world, he chief of police would lose his job, his citizenship and be deported to ChavezLand, where I'm sure he'd be more than welcome.
Earplugs won’t do a thing.
What’s next, the infamous “crapcannon”?
It’d be Hell to have to wear that thing home.
On-site observations that I have read or seen indicate that there were 4 policemen for each protestor, and any claim that a group of 400 students Friday night on the lawn of the campus of the University of Pittsburgh was “threatening to turn violent” is nonsense. A tear-gas like container was thrown into one dorm where other students were just watching from above, and one girl was taken to the hospital after an asthmatic reaction to the gas. There are other reports that the number of unidentified people actually involved in breaking the 12 shop windows is approximately “one” and that could have been an agent provocateur, but broken glass was about the only thing I saw being reported on the Pittsburgh TV station that Thursday.
The British learned a lot about the conequences of using painful non-lethals on crowds in Northern Ireland.
What they learned was that dispersed crowds don’t all go home and sip tea and knit sweaters. Some of them dig up rifles and build bombs, and they start using them.
Something to consider, for those LE officials who think that “non lethal” crowd dispersal is a win-win with no downside.
Why use all that fancy, expensive equipment when some well-aimed bars of soap will do?
Coming soon to a tea party near you.
Scary. Questions to ponder: Is this still a free country? Are we still Capitalist or are we Fascist? Is the tipping point coming soon or are we already serfs working for the special interests?
I remember reading stories on how people defecting from China or the Soviet Union grew up thinking they had been living as free men.
Don’t LRAD me bro
I would say a large caliber round might take out the transducer of such a device...they are nice round targets!
I would say a large caliber round might take out the transducer of such a device...they are nice round targets!
“I knew the day would come that these so-called non-lethal methods would be employed against civilians in America.”
Man up and buy some ear plugs.
;-{)
And you don’t think that SWAT counter-snipers are not just waiting, eagerly, for the opportunity to shoot that shooter?
Ear plugs won’t do jack. Like a butterfly net to stop a bullet.
Spot and get them first.
Now you have gone from the legal but questionable use of a painful non-lethal crowd control device, to a shooting battle with bullets going both ways over (an maybe throgh) the crowd.
Are you famliar with “Bloody Sunday” in Northern Ireland, and what followed?
One day after such a battle in the USA, Congress would pass all sorts of “emergency” decrees and freedom would be dead.
And CW2 would probably be on.
Don’t LRAD me broAs serious as this issue is, I can't help it: LOL!
won't work, it's so loud there's bone conductance in your skull
Just replying to your comment regarding non-lethal crowd control methods in Ireland. A sniper could take out such a device well away from where SWAT teams could get to that person easily, shooting from a number of directions.
I’d rather have the earplugs than not have them..
Is discharging a firearm a felony if all ya hit is the horn on that wiget ?
What isn't a Felony these days?
I understand this can be accomplished more easily with a loud broadcast of Yoko Ono singing.
Police state 101.
The current occupant of the White House must have wet dreams about this technology every night.
Like a follower of Marx, Lenin, Stalin and Hitler.
Every bit as much as the previous puppet, Bush. When is theis board going to pull its collective head out of the ass of the false left/right paradigm pseudo-parties, and start to demand freedom from the tyrannt matrix that the bankers/globalists have been enveloping the world in incrementally over the last 200 years, increasingly expedited the last 90, and rammed down the throat the last 20? THIS forum is a vipers-nest of NWO apologists, and so many fake tough-guys, who were abused as children, and now take gleeful pleasure in TALKING good-old-boy smack! REAL MEN AND WOMEN ON FR, KICK THE BASTARDS DOWN VERBALLY!!!! I am so depressed and sickened by persons who will willingly take the yoke of chattelhood as long as it makes the Democrats look bad and Republicans look good. INSANITY, STUPIDITY, and your freedoms lost will surely be the wages you earn!!
your meds are calling you... heed them
Oct 1, 2009 article - DHS helps local police buy military-style sonic devices http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/oct/01/police-buy-sonic-device-to-subdue-unruly-crowds/
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