The LRAD (Long Range Acoustic Device) was first developed as a weapon
--with "Step 4: Profit!!!" as the last bullet: mind you the primary bullet: KILL!--
With enough sound generated it would instantly incapacitate "the evil doer's" with the immediate result of cerebrospinal fluid leaking from the 'victims' ears.
Of course death quickly followed. Qid Pro Quo!
What can I say? 'Americans' love violence
especially directed against orifices -- seemingly any orifice will do nowadays, dad gum it!
This marvel of engineering and beauty was then developed as a 'crowd control weapon' for use as "a distance hailing device and
non-lethal (emphasis mine) crowd control weapon developed by LRAD Corporation to send messages, warnings, and harmful, pain inducing tones (doesn't that sound better?) over longer distances than normal loudspeakers."
and of course this can't be said enough:
for Profit! -- where are our morals, where are our Patriotic Priorities, Where Is The Good Old Murican Way; people?! (Naw, that last isn't in Wiki. Big surprise).
Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Range_Acoustic_Device***Note the ballast of the information here is if not totally, then mostly from Wikipedia. As much as I detest using that site, the information I had read on LRAD's (especially being weapons grade) have disappeared over the years mainly through moving, friends 'borrowing', general attrition of literature/books (Sob!) and crashage of old computers.
The information below will concern excerpts such as "Crowd Control", primarily if not totally against U.S. citizens***
From Wikipedia, subheading
"Against protesters" -clipped for usage against U.S. citizens by their government and an instance or two used against U.S. citizens who were sold weapons for use in slaughtering whales, of course what is more important than
Step 4: Profit!!!And if you don't think any were sold to other countries, any old country at all:
'friends', 'enemy du jour','other'
as lethal, long range weapons -- have another think
and, as usual, don't forget the Free Market Profit Motive! If you wish to peruse the entire article or Google the subject matter
or even better: Buy some books! please do so! I don't think there could be a better display of Man's 'inhumanity' to homo sapiens and indeed all other creatures on this planet and any others who may have the terrible misfortune to run into us, somewhere, under the sea, or even 'out there' (my feeling this is why the beings in the UFO's do not with to interact with us in any way -- PLEASE don't throw this in the dungeon, moderators!)
In any event in this article there are unfortunately many more examples right on this page, indeed on this planet:
"Most recently, the sound canon was used to evict Occupy Wall Street protesters from Liberty Plaza in the early morning (approximately 1am) of November 15th, 2011.
The LRAD device was on hand at protests of the 2004 Republican National Convention in New York City<6> but not used; it was extensively used against opposition protesters in Tbilisi, Georgia, in November 2007.<7>
The magazine Foreign Policy has revealed that LRADs have been sold to the government of the People's Republic of China. American companies have been banned from selling arms to China since the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989.
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The LRAD was used for the first time in the United States in Pittsburgh during the time of the G20 summit on September 24–25th, 2009.<9><10> Pittsburgh police again utilized LRAD as a precautionary measure to prevent unruly crowds from getting out of control following the 2011 Super Bowl. LRAD systems were also purchased by Toronto Police for the 2010 G20 summit.
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LRAD was also used against college students in the city of Macomb, Illinois at the Wheeler Block Party at Western Illinois University ("WIU")<11> on May 1, 2011.<1>
LRAD was reportedly<12> used by the Oakland Police Department during the clearance of the Occupy Oakland encampment on the morning of 25 October 2011.
LRAD use was reported as the New York City Police department cleared protestors during the Occupy Wall Street protests in Zuccotti Park on the morning of 15 November 2011.<2>
LRAD's were used twice at sea for protecting ships, once in the Indian Ocean and once against Somalian pirates.
From Wikipedia again subheading
"Whaling":
"In February 2009, the Japanese whaling fleet operating in Antarctic waters near Australia installed LRADs on their vessels. The device was used against activists of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society after they harassed the factory ship.<18> The Japanese fleet later escalated the use of LRAD, deploying it against a Sea Shepherd helicopter carrying a camera crew.<19><20> Sea Shepherd noted that they had an LRAD of their own, but as of early 2010, had not put it into use<21> other than to play a recording of "Ride of the Valkyries" in the manner of attacking U.S. Army helicopters depicted in the 1979 film Apocalypse Now."<22>
Free Speech?
Right to gather and protest/redress our government?
Trust our "Peace Officers"?
Trust out government, en toto? (I hope that one sentence alone doesn't send this post to the dungeon.)
Seriously now, how's about dem apples?
Nota Bene: You may want to check out "Sonic Weapons" as well:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonic_weapon
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