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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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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