Maximum pain is aim of new US weapon

[doodadem]

http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn7077

"The US military is funding development of a weapon that delivers a
bout of excruciating pain from up to 2 kilometres away. Intended for use against rioters, it is meant to leave victims unharmed. But pain
researchers are furious that work aimed at controlling pain has been used to develop a weapon. And they fear that the technology will be
used for torture.
...
The research came to light in documents unearthed by the Sunshine
Project, an organisation based in Texas and in Hamburg, Germany,
that exposes biological weapons research. The papers were released
under the US's Freedom of Information Act.

One document, a research contract between the Office of Naval
Research and the University of Florida in Gainesville, US, is
entitled "Sensory consequences of electromagnetic pulses emitted by
laser induced plasmas".

It concerns so-called Pulsed Energy Projectiles (PEPs), which fire a
laser pulse that generates a burst of expanding plasma when it hits
something solid, like a person (New Scientist print edition, 12
October 2002). The weapon, destined for use in 2007, could literally knock rioters off their feet. "

[signmike]

1. They could just crank up the thumper on Rap 'Music' real loud...

that does it for me...

With this device * can just motorcade down the street leaving a 2 kilometre swath of agony in his path, no need to remove mailboxes, weld manhole covers shut, etc.

[LynnTheDem]

2. And is indiscriminate, with 2 mile radius; so when drivers on the freeway

during rush-hour are hit with maximum unbearable pain just because they are within that radius, is it murder when they all crash and die?

Will the US government offer tips on how to deal with and explain to children who are caught within the radius, for example playing on the swings in the playground, when they are suddenly hit with extreme maximum pain out of nowhere? Will they offer suggestions as to how we convince our traumatized and terrorized kids they can safely go outdoors again? Will the US govt pay for the years of counseling for kids traumatized, terrorized, and neurotic, living in fear 24/7 that the pain may suddenly hit them again?

Will pregnant mothers who are within the radius experience such maximum pain that they spontaneously abort be charged with murder as "late-term abortion"?

How about the ill, the elderly, the handi-capped and the infirm; when they are "knocked off their feet" by the maximum pain and fall and break open their heads; will the US govt pay for all funeral arrangements, or if they survive, for all medical and future care treatments?

What happens to those who happen to be walking next to busy streets and are "knocked off their feet" into traffic and run over?

How about high-rise window washers and construction workers? Or crane operators who may happen to be lifting tons-heavy objects when they're hit with this maximum pain & lose control of their cranes; will the US govt pay for all persons & property killed/damaged by being crushed?

Yes, let's have weapons of massive torture (WMT), just what we need in America.

[LynnTheDem]

3. Oh and this of course is assuming the WMT operator has a very accurate

watch, knows EXACTLY the parameters before the "maximum pain" becomes death, and isn't a curious and/or psychopath who wants to see what happens if we go just another few seconds longer...