The End of Protest (Pt 1)

(1)The U.S. government finally unveiled technology that has long been rumored to be in existence. The technology is a heat-ray gun called the Active Denial System (ADS). How does it work? It shoots an invisible millimeter-wave beam at individuals, penetrates the skin to 0.4mm and heats up the water underneath the skin at a ‘gentle’ clip up to 130 degrees, at which point the individual is supposed to run away.

Ok, a few things, now the manufacturer and the government say there are no long-term effects, that it is a relatively harmless event. Are we to trust this, they said the same thing with Agent Orange in Vietnam and Depleted Uranium in both Iraq wars. This is because either (1) they do not conduct tests before hand, wait until enough outside research is conducted and years later they go back and run tests of their own or (2) they conduct tests and know the adverse effects but do not release them because it would not be profitable to the corporation or government to do so. With the short production times of technology like this, conducting years of tests to determine their health risks is not conducive to the bottom-line of the corporation and will of course not occur for this reason. In reality it is probably a mix of both reasons.

Secondly, they say this is largely for military purposes to stop ‘suspicious’ individuals or clear a crowd with gunmen. Come on, this technology will definitely be used against civil disobedience and protestors. The U.S. used water cannons and tear gas against civil rights protestors and anti-war activists during the 1960s and 1970s and this technology will be used by the police-state against anti-war protestors, free-trade protestors, etc. Saying the government will not turn this technology against its own citizens flies against recorded history, where technology that was once ‘only’ for military purposes against ‘foreigners’ is then brought to use against the country’s own citizens who refuse to tow the line of totalitarianism, imperialism etc.