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Homeland Security Funds LED Light That Blinds, Disorients
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."
you must not be a good law abiding republican citizen. if you were you'd have nothing to fear.
thats right, I rarely use capitals. deal with it. but don't mistake my laziness for stupidity
Great idea. Take a moment what a crowd of Mexicans running frantically North with their eyes closed and their arms in front feeling their way.
It illustrates the problem having to outright declare war on that nation to stop them. Nothing like 150000+ people outfitted with the finest in US military hardware defending the border that Corporate America doesnt want defended.
Twitter supports and protects racists - by smearing their critics with the "Hate Speech" label.
No, its still funny.
Give me a truck full of rakes and a video camera and I'm going to win $10,000 on AFV, too!
Since when has that been an consideration of the Bush administration?
~Pev