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here's the first result from my 10 second web search... but those of us who've spent significant time protesting on the streets have had some very close looks at the sonic weapons developed for use in other parts of the world.

oh wait, here's a photo.

I have anti-globalization activist friends who were in Miami in 2003 protesting the FTAA meeting going on at the time. They tell me that the cops (other than having their own embedded journalists, getting extremely favorable corporate media coverage, beating people senseless and blinding some people with pepperspray) used some sort of microwave weapon on them and it made them throw up. For more info on that protest, check out a movie called the Miami Model http://www.ftaaimc.org/miamimodel.

These pepperballs were used in Miami last November at the FTAA Ministerial protests. Police fired a whole lot of these things at protestors from guns like these - not at all unlike a normal paintball gun. They apparently can only be shot a short distance, but police would fire a whole lot into the crowd at once. Wounds generally look like this or this - red welts with a small chemical burn surroundinng it, but it isn't any consolation for this guy who got one in the face.

or even Guantanamo Bay... last week in Miami there were hundreds of people locked up for protesting at the anti-FTAA demonstrations, many still there struggling for bail money.

When people came to protest at the jail, the police simply proceeded to arrest the protestors again to get them out of the way.

If you want an example of a "police state" just look at the USA right now, you don't need to look as far as China.

more arrests and jail info at
http://www.ftaaimc.org/ and http://www.stopftaa.org

yeah just look at miami

we're almost there.
prison rape? by police?
i understand why you're blase(sp?) about protests but this is fascism here.

The memorandum . . . warned about an array of threats, including homemade bombs and the formation of human chains.

Hmmm... leave it to the FBI to see a "human chain" as a threat. Here's another one:

The memorandum discussed demonstrators' "innovative strategies," like the videotaping of arrests as a means of "intimidation" against the police. And it noted that protesters "often use the Internet to recruit, raise funds and coordinate their activities prior to demonstrations."

So let's see here: we can't videotape the cops because they feel "intimidated," but of course the same doesn't apply to police, who routinely videotape activists. In fact, videotaping and photographing the police is essential to stopping police repression of peaceful protests.

And using the internet to "raise funds" and "coordinate activities" is suspicious?

I guess I should just turn myself in.

The memorandum . . . warned about an array of threats, including homemade bombs and the formation of human chains.

Hmmm... leave it to the FBI to see a "human chain" as a threat. Here's another one:

The memorandum discussed demonstrators' "innovative strategies," like the videotaping of arrests as a means of "intimidation" against the police. And it noted that protesters "often use the Internet to recruit, raise funds and coordinate their activities prior to demonstrations."

So let's see here: we can't videotape the cops because they feel "intimidated," but of course the same doesn't apply to police, who routinely videotape activists. In fact, videotaping and photographing the police is essential to stopping police repression of peaceful protests.

And using the internet to "raise funds" and "coordinate activities" is suspicious?

I guess I should just turn myself in.

with the way cops are treating even non-violent protesters in miami i dont know that you'd get to far. why do you think the government is researching so many new crowd control methods?

also check out the newly launched:
http://ftaaimc.org
for special indymedia coverage of the november ftaa meeting and the demonstrations against it.