How about little and big microwave ovens.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/technology/technology.html?in_article_id=482560&i
n_page_id=1965
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/ground/v-mads.htm
How about airport scanners. Hell, why limit it just to airports.
http://www.thznetwork.org/wordpress/index.php/archives/445
Note the marketing points here, big guy heavily armed, why didn’t the use a 18 year old woman.
What else does Orwell have up his sleeve. Let’s ask Battelle, one of the large defense contractors.
http://www.battelle.org/forecasts/terror.stm
http://www.battelle.org/forecasts/defense.stm
Note the inoculation part, you get your drugs, like it or not.
Oh, and just for convienience they are working on the wireless models.
http://tech.propeller.com/story/2007/07/12/wireless-tazer-will-drop-you-from-100-feet/
So I will close with this one. I don’t think it can be said enough.
http://www.oldamericancentury.org/14pts.htm
Like the quote CabinGirl put on the Friday News Bucket,
It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his job depends on not understanding it.
– Upton Sinclair
I have this image in my head.
It comes from some years ago at camp. We were firing different high power rifles into close range targets, about say 30 meters. A plastic 2 liter container full of water explodes violently when hit with a .223 caliber AR-18. The M1 Garand does the same thing only with more violence. Both rifles do pack some serious kick so you best have the dam thing planted solidly on your shoulder. Incredibly powerful, very loud and awesome destruction these weapons have.
On Friday here in the US we did have another “incident”. Of all places, Logan Airport.
http://www.cnn.com/2...
The incident was dutifully picked up by media who once again advanced the meme of “post 911 world”. At the press conference the cops said “She is lucky she complied with our instructions, otherwise she would be in the morgue”. Jay Sevrein jumped upon the story citing how “normal” and “justified” the police were in their actions and some even questioned why the police did not “shoot first and ask questions later”. Such bravado in the name of “security”.
The “news” footage also featured state police toting some of the very same weapons I outlined before. My concern is that in a crowded setting such as an airport who is to say these bullets don’t pass through five people in addition to their target.
Grateful Iraqis are not knocking at my door carrying tanks of gas at 50 cents.
My daughter thinks my mother is cheap because they scared the living shit out of her with a seven year “lookback” nursing home entrance crap. My 20 year career is shit because nobody can make anything in the US.
I have the receipt for my first doctor’s office visit co-pay plus a bill for the very same co-pay from Guido’s Health Insurance Company.
So in conclusion do I support the police in their ever increasing fascistic persuits in the war on terra?
I most certainly do not. Security has not and should not be the very soul of America.