Vaccine mandate protest in Canberrra, Australia

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  2. ANO

    I may have missed something blindingly obvious but that letter seems to answer Gerardine’s question – it was used ‘to convey spoken word messages’.

    Is there a suggestion that it was used for more than this ?

    Having crowd control measures in place and not having to use them sounds like a successful peaceful protest all round to me.

    1. f_lawless

      Call me crazy here, but I think if one lives in a supposed healthy liberal democratic society, then having the police turn up to a peaceful gathering with intimidating hi-tech weaponry on display is quite a troubling sign

      1. Nigel

        Oh, where were you when BLM were on the streets? All the right wing law’n’order types suddenly finding the overfunded militarised police pointed at them are outraged, outraged I say!

        1. f_lawless

          I was probably at home. Were you out standing your ground in front of armoured tanks?

          Nigel I think you’re spending too much time living in an online fantasy world – why are you so compelled to interpret everything and everyone through the paradigm of a US culture war? You were probably fresh from trying to get one over on someone on social media by labelling them a “right wing law’n’order type” when you typed your comment here, am I right? Too much internet is turning your brain to sludge.

          I’m aware that the creeping militarisation of police forces in Western nations has been going on since the advent of the unending “War on Terror” in 2001 – or maybe even before that. The BLM protests in the US was just one recent example. In the EU, France’s handling of the Yellow Vest protests and subsequent Covid protests were other stark examples in recent times. Could the Gardai eventually go the same way? I’d say so.

          1. Nigel

            ‘I was probably at home.’

            Didn’t you notice black people directly standing up to a militarised police force and getting violently attacked?

            ‘why are you so compelled to interpret everything and everyone through the paradigm of a US culture war?’

            Why do you keep aligning with the very worst culture war propnents? Defending Trump, defending Putin, denying climate change, denying the pandemic, buying in to ridiculously deterministic narratives that are almost Calvinist in their denial of free will.

            ‘am I right?’

            Your heart seems to be in the right place, but… no.

      2. ANO

        The wiki entry linked in the blog post above suggests it’s a high-tech loudspeaker.

        The militarisation of police forces is a growing problem but this particular piece of kit doesn’t seem to be s symptom of that.

        2. f_lawless

          You’ve missed the first sentence in the Wikipedia page – one of the descriptors used for an LRAD is “sonic weapon”. Click through to “sonic weapon” page, it says:

          “Extremely high-power sound waves can disrupt or destroy the eardrums of a target and cause severe pain or disorientation. This is usually sufficient to incapacitate a person. Less powerful sound waves can cause humans to experience nausea or discomfort. “

  3. Dr.Fart

    oh who cares. everyones so sick of covid stuff that we’ve actually decided to move on, and im down with that. if Australia are using noise to disperse protests I actually don’t care. move on.

  4. SailorGerry

    LRAD was deployed on vessels during the piracy issues a few years back off of the coat of Yemen and Somalia.

    It is a very effective, non lethal weapon. It is not a loud hailer on steroids.

    It would be as effective as the British army up north putting a DD cell battery ahead of rubber bullet round in crowd control situations.

    That would crack ribs, snatch and grab would then pickup in a Ferret , and away for a wee chat under duress.

    It is designed for use against an enemy.

    Problem is we the people are the enemy, from their perspective.

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