US Police Could Get 'Pain Beam' Weapons!

US Police Could Get 'Pain Beam' Weapons!

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US police could get 'pain beam' weapons

The research arm of the US Department of Justice is working on two portable non-lethal weapons that inflict pain from a distance using beams of laser light or microwaves, with the intention of putting them into the hands of police to subdue suspects.
The two devices under development by the civilian National Institute of Justice both build on knowledge gained from the Pentagon's controversial Active Denial System (ADS) - first demonstrated in public last year, which uses a 2-metre beam of short microwaves to heat up the outer layer of a person's skin and cause pain.
Existing blunt trauma weapons can break ribs or even kill, making alternatives welcome. Yet ADS has recorded problems too - out of several thousand tests on human subjects there were two cases of second-degree burns.
The NIJ is testing the PHaSR in various scenarios, which may include prison situations as well as law enforcement.
We have grave concerns about the deployment and use of any such devices, which have the potential to be used for torture or other ill treatment," says Amnesty International's arms control researcher Helen Hughes, adding that all research into their effects should be made public

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[edit on 26-12-2008 by Gonenuts]

Forget an uprise people we do not have a chance, now they can “roast” you alive!
Can you say “microwave”! this weapon in the wrong hands will be deadly.

There is no limit to this deadly Government is there, we have seen how crazy the police have gotten with the tazers, now they get to play with a new toy and we are going to have to sumit or be fried to death lol you all know they are going to turn those beams on HIGH!

If this Government turns on the people in this Country how do you expect to defend your selfs against this device.


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Thanks for the coments.
But this has already been posted, here.

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This device can actually render "guns" useless. One can't shoot back when on fire...............how else will Obamassiah disarm america?

Police should have a Pain Beam shoved up their collective asses.

As if Tasers weren't bad enoug, now there goimg to have these?! StormTroopers for the new EMPIRE. . Wonder what their uniforms are going to look like? LOL.. Real life meets sci-fi.

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