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Homeland Security Funds LED Light That Blinds, Disorients

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the deadliest-non-lethal-weapons dept.

katzmeow writes "Ryand Singel's Wired blog notes that Homeland security has developed an LED flashlight that uses 'powerful flashes of light to temporarily blind, disorient and incapacitate people.' The idea is to use it to incapacitate people — 'arrest them' — on airlines, borders, etc. without using traditional weapons. The company's president Bob Lieberman says the tool is perfect for confronting 'border jumpers.' 'You don't want to hurt or kill them, just take them into custody,' says Lieberman. 'With this, they don't need to know English to comply.' The 'light saber' can even be scaled up to bazooka size for subduing crowds."

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  1. Re:This is against Geneva or Hague convention by d3ac0n · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Neoprofin, Don't even bother.

    As you can see by Deskpoet's response to me, he's obviously another candidate for Fever-swamp radical of the year. If you read through his next response to you, you can see he's another far-leftist loony who honestly thinks that the police are there to "keep him down".

    Put more succinctly, he's a nut. A Loon. A moron. A crackpot. Someone not in full control of his faculties. Just ignore his insane ravings and he'll go away.

    To Deskpoet:

    Just for the record, I am half white, half Cherokee (raised by my adoptive family of mixed Italian and German descent). I live an un-gated, mixed-race neighborhood of Whites, Blacks and Asians. My wife is of Irish and Ukranian descent and we have two special-needs (Autism) children. And you and your BS racebaiting can suck my dick. Now fuck off and go back to the fever-swamp you crawled out of.

    Now that we have THAT out of the way, does anyone ELSE wanna play the bullshit racecard on me?

    Yeah, I didn't think so.

    --
    Official Heretic from the "Church of Global Warming". Proven right thanks to whistle blowers. AGW = Flat Earth Theory
  2. Re:This is against Geneva or Hague convention by BakaHoushi · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I think the problem with your viewpoint isn't that you're against illegal immigration, but your intensity of it.

    Having a lack of sympathy for someone whose crime was illegally crossing a border getting maimed by a truck? That's cold. A punishment far worse than the crime.