Riot Control Ray-Gun for Use in Iraq

team99parody writes "An 'Active Denial System' weapon that 'fires a 95GHz microwave beam at rioters to cause heating and intolerable pain in less than five seconds' is scheduled for service in Iraq in 2006 according to CNET and the print version of New Scientist. It was recently tested on people playing the part of rioters at Kirtland Air Force Base in New Mexico where they asked the subjects to remove glass and contact lenses to protect their eyes. Hopefully real rioters will get the same courtesy. Police and the Marines are working on portable versions. Sandia Labs also has a nice writeup on this system with pictures of smaller versions of the weapon."

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Re:Coming to America

[SirSlud]

I still find it amusing that people from a country based on taking over land from other people, and then repelling the original colonialists by force has the gall to claim that violence is never right.

You wanna enforce property rights? Give the land back to the original owners, or shut the fuck up.

Coming soon to college campuses

[Fastball]

Every time I read about students rioting on college campuses when their respective athletic teams win something, I always wish there was a way to effectively (and entertainly to me) suppress them. Best idea I could come up with was a pepper bomb. Now this.

Beautiful.

Re:Coming to America

[timmarhy]

so why don't you move the fuck out of your house and give it to the native people of what ever country you stole it from? because anywhere you live there's been a native people displaced for you to be there, thats for sure. put your money where your big mouth is or how about YOU STFU?

Re: Coming to America

[Anonymous Coward]

a country just liberated from an insanely bloodthirsty dictator

You mean they finally kicked Bush out of there?

Re:Coming to America

[Darby]

Do you think they're standing there just itching to whack someone with a baton?

A fairly high percentage of them? Absolutely positively beyond the shadow of a doubt. You obviously know fuck all about the mentality of people who choose as a career path to perform a job that is mostly centered around busting people for exercising their constitutionally guaranteed rights and robbing people to increase government revenues.

There are some small percentage of people who go into police work in the interests of serving their community, but after one two years tops these people have either left or given up their idealism when they realise that they aren't paid to help.
The third possibility is that they are too stupid to even realise what they are doing.

I'm sorry, but as a cop the first time you are ordered to lock *peaceful* protesters in cages labeled "free speech zones" your number one most important responsibility is to refuse that order and do *anything it takes* to get the person who gave that order fired and put on trial for treason. This is a very simple cut and dried example.

The second time it happens, if you follow the order, then it is imperative that you be shot in the fucking head. That is patriotism. If your fiance doesn't recognize these things then her life is a liability to freedom and to this country.

Sorry if you don't like it, but freedom in my country is worth far more than the life of yet another traitor.

Re:Coming to America

[Overzeetop]

I've heard it said that "When black people feel wronged, they destroy and loot their community. When white people feel wronged, they vote." I wish I had the proper attribution.

OT, probably, but its the first thing that came to mind.