'CROWD CONTROL' AND OTHER TECHNOLOGIES (incomplete list)
2nd Generation 'Less Lethal' Weapons & other forms of control. (police/military/prison)
- kinetic energy weapons
- dart guns & injector Weapons (biomedical)
- "Lick 'em and stick 'em" Sticky Foam gun
- Aqueous barrier foam
- Blinding laser weapons and Isotrophic radiator shells
- plastic/rubber bullets
- electrified water jets
- Thermal incapacitator guns
- Magnetosphere gun
- combined stroboscopic light and pulsed sound weapons
- infrasound & ultra-sound generators
- 'sonic' holograms
- visual stimulus and illusion techniques (holographic)
- obnoxious odour weapons
- microwave and acoustic disabling systems
- human capture nets (electric or chemical-laced)
- high voltage taser guns (50,000 volts)
- electronic riot shields & electro-shock batons (50,000 volts)
- instant banana peel (makes slippery, impassable roads).
- bulk chemical irritant distributor systems
- chemical foam backpack sprayers
- transponder based parole system (electronic tagging)
- bar-coding
- special stripped and padded cells
- stunbelts (remote controlled) 50,000 volts
- segregated units (cage within a cage)
- sensory deprivation
- geophones, identity recognition technology
- electrically heated hot tables
- interrogation rooms using white noise
- aesthetic darts/pellets
- noise weapons such as acoustic generators
- optical munitions
- kinetic energy weapons
- 'insectoid' robot sentinels
- forward looking infra-red systems
- electroshock kill fences
- electrified razor coil stun fences
- neural networks with semi-intelligence
- Automatic fingerprint readers
- DNA fingerprinting
- night vision technology
- Direct Intelligent Access Listening
- Neural network bugs
- Passive Millimeter Wave Imaging
- Satellite Tracking (GPS)
- Data-veillance (telematics)
- Discrete Order Vehicles
- Stroboscopic Cameras (100+ pictures per second)
- Automated Vehicle Recognition Systems
- CCTV Surveillance Networks
- voice/face recognition systems
- global surveillance (ECHELON etc)
- chip implant identification
excerpts from STOA report
"Fingerprints, ID cards, data matching and other privacy invasive schemes were originally tried on populations with little political power, such as welfare recipients, immigrants, criminals and members of the military, and then applied up the socioeconomic ladder. One in place, the policies are difficult to remove and inevitably expand into more general use."37 These technologies fit roughly into three broad categories. namely surveillance, identification and networking, and are often used in conjunction as with video cameras and face recognition or biometrics and ID cards. For Banisar, "They facilitate mass and routine surveillance of large segments of the population without the need for warrants and formal investigations. What the East German secret police could only dream of is rapidly becoming a reality in the free world."38
"A massive Police Industrial Complex has been spawned to service the needs of police, paramilitary and security forces, evidenced by the number of companies now active in the market. An overall trend is towards globalisation of these technologies and a drift to increasing proliferation, without much regard to local conditions. One core trend has been towards a militarisation of the police and a paramilitarisation of military forces in Europe." [STOA report 1998]
"It is the interface of the ECHELON system and its potential development on phone calls combined with the standardisation of "tappable communications centres and equipment being sponsored by the EU and the USA which presents a truly global threat over which there are no legal or democratic controls."(Statewatch; Press release 25.2.97)
"..thus a second generation of kinetic, chemical, optico-acoustic, microwave, disabling and paralysing technologies is on the horizon, to join the existing arsenal of weapons designed for public order control. Much of the initial new work has been undertaken in US nuclear laboratories such as Oak Ridge, Lawrence Livermore and Los Alamos. Many cynics see the work as a rice bowl initiative with scientists looking for new weapons projects to justify their future careers as the cold war made their old skill redundant. Already they have come up with a pandora's box of new technologies... [STOA]