Fri 10 Oct 2008
Submitted by YOUR NEW REALITY
This is so utterly demented, so anti-human, even Philip K Dick would have rejected it as a realistic weapon of choice in his police state America fiction.
From Taser :
Full area coverage is provided to instantaneously incapacitate multiple personnel within that region.
They’re talking about American civilians in food riots. Or just a pack of the wrong kind of protesters. You know, the ones demanding public trials and death sentences for those who stripped the American economy bare.
Imagine Taser salespeople going back to all the 250,000 cops and security guards across the world who have armed themselves with tasers in the past few years trying to get them to ‘upgrade’ to this appalling horror. Oh, and you can mount ‘Shockwave’ (or many of them, they are after all stackable “like lego blocks,” according to Taser) on a truck, so you can scream into a crowd of, say, very angry people outside a bank trying to get enough of their savings back to buy some water and food, and take out dozens and dozens of people at a time.
They’ll be ready for widespread deployment across the United States by Christmas, promises Taser. Just in time then.
The sales video should be parody, just listen to the Bruckheimer music for a start, but it’s not. This is how Taser is trying to sell the fucker. A must have new toy for the ultra-police state.
You’d imagine, you’d hope, that while there would be some police forces and combat-freaked security units who’d drool all over their shirts to get their hands on this thing, there would be many more who’d be repulsed, disgusted, at what is clearly a highly dangerous weapon designed solely for the electrofrying of dozens of people at a time.
Insurance companies are already very nervous about new taser weapons that deliver 20 second long blasts of tens of thousands of volts. Who’d bet money that the ‘Shockwave’ can be used even moderately safely in, or on, a panicking crowd?
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