HOW ABOUT THAT SOUND CANNON?

By IAN WINTHROP

I’m not going to get into a whole discussion of why the G-# meetings are evil, or whether or not protests do anything, or how the IMF/WorldBank/United States/China/Federal Reserve are destroying the world. I’m not even going to talk about how scary it is when the police dress up like New World Order Ninja Turtles and beat the living shit out of people. Which they did last week. What I do want to talk about is the fucking insane weapons the riot police are wheeling out these days. Sound cannons?! It was only a few years ago they started using tasers and already they’re on to sound cannons? Guys, you’ve got to appreciate what you’ve got or you’re going to get way ahead of yourselves! How soon until we start seeing college kids hit with the business end of a pain ray? And speaking of which, it turns out most of the people blasted by the sound cannon, which basically produces a high pitched “chirp” so loud that you either run away or go deaf, were University of Pittsburgh students on their way home from class. Maybe people wouldn’t be so opposed to having a police state if the cops were a little better at knowing who to pick on.

By IAN WINTHROP 2 years ago

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