Working ray gun ready to deploy
August 27, 2010
Brasscheck TV
8/27/2010
We may not have trains that run on time (or trains at all for that matter.)
Or safe food in our supermarkets.
Or schools that do anything but “dumb down” their students.
But by god the government will make sure its enforcers have their own personal ray guns.
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Harold
Can Police non-lethal weapons Lead to More Violence?
Prior to police having access to non-lethal weapons, they were restrained, police could not lawfully shoot demonstrators causing an unlawful disturbance. And when Police used batons or visible tear gas to deal with protesters they often caused injury and ended up on the Six O’clock News.
Increasingly as police turn to non-lethal weapons they are reported on the news using Taser Guns and other supposed non-lethal weapons against Citizens when it isn’t justified, because they can. It was recently reported that police used a Taser Gun on an uncooperative 84-year old woman while she was in bed.
Police now have Ray Guns that burn and soon laser beams that can temporarily flash-blind thousands of protesters. It is problematic police may unjustifiably use these non-lethal weapons to crush Citizens who lawfully demonstrate for or against any issue.
Historically when a government or its police have been perceived by a population as suppressing free speech, crushing lawful dissent to where Citizens are afraid to protest on the street, Citizens have been driven underground, some becoming violent against any authority that represents the state. When British forces in Northern Ireland excessively used non-lethal force against Irish Catholic populations, that caused many Catholics to support or join the IRA.
Non-lethal weapons if not used appropriately by police can trigger the violence the purported non-lethal weapons were meant to stop.