As much as I despise and question "the press", I have a problem with a government "barring" their presence while it executes it's duties.
Posted on 11/16/2011 4:37:58 AM PST by Cardhu
Riot police deployed under cover of darkness at 1 am. No video cameras were allowed during the early hours of the raid. News teams were barred from the scene. Air space above Zuccotti park was shut down.
Above all, a well-prepared removal plan received shock-op back-up as the NYPD rolled out long range acoustic devices (LRADs) on the streets of NY. The device is capable of emitting a tone higher than normal human pain threshold and can permanently damage hearing.
Evidence of LRAD weaponry was captured with cell-phones during the raid against OWS protestors, early morning November 15. This is the first time during the Occupy Wall Street movement that police posed such an extreme threat and begs the question; how long before LRADs are unleashed on the people?
What is developed for the military gets turned on the citizens before too long;. Posse Comitatus is dead. How long will it be until predators start shooting hellfires at US citizens, on US soil?
Anyone know whether the drums were let back in the park? As long as they have those drums, there is no peace in Liberty Square Park.
Wasn't reported that the "NYPD Can Shoot Down Planes, But With What Weapon?" - ABC News.
A city police department has a shock cannon that can cause deafness? Why? Interesting look at the weaponry of the police.
Here's a video of Russian police in action: LiveLeak.com. I especially like the end of the video when a customer dutifully complies with their demand to see papers.
Sound cannons! Just another kid glove alternative to the time honored American tradition of Kick-Ass-And-Take names.
The campaign of the leftist minions of the ACLU crowd and their useful idiots to disable America's defenses against her domestic enemies continues as surely as does the campaign to disable our military.
Why don't the police just play Barry Manilow over the loudspeakers; or would that be considered cruel?
Perhaps the means to shoot down aircraft is to remove Press helicopters so the can better “Serve and Protect,” themselves and the government.
As much as I despise and question "the press", I have a problem with a government "barring" their presence while it executes it's duties.
Exactly my thought.
If the courts have found that it’s legal to film police officers in the interest of protecting one’s right, what is the legal basis for excluding the press under these circumstances?
“...Air space above Zuccotti park was shut down.”
Reminds me of “Brown Noise” episode of South Park.
Ah yes, just like the LRAD sounds cannons, tear gas, and riot police deployed on the Tea Party on 9/12/09 in Washington DC...
I will not be surprised when these tactics are employed against TEA pary gatherings next summer, now that the precedent has been established.
I have no such problem as the media have become the de facto enemies of freedom in the U.S.
If they actually served their function as the Fourth Estate and reported the news as truth instead of seeking to attack America, I would agree with you.
RT also gives airtime to an anti-American cartoon named Max Keiser who, although born in America, is the son of Russian parents (there's a red flag, eh?) and attacks the U.S. as often as he is on.
He is one of the post-modern, "citizen of the world" types that we are seeing more frequently in the media. To him, America is the source of all evil unlike his parents' homeland for which he never has a discouraging word.
Not that one should believe everything they read or see on the Internet, but "the precedent" was perhaps already established a couple years ago in Pittsburgh.
Deploying such tactics against Tea Party gatherings, with a 100% clean track record of non-violent interaction with Law Enforcement, would be choosing unwisely.
Interesting. I was wondering when they were going to bring out the sonic weapons, to include the microwave emitters, and “rumblers”, which use low frequency sound waves to cause dizziness, vomiting, and gastro-intestinal disturbances, like defecating on yourself, which pretty much takes you out of the disturbance.
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