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The Acoustic Cannon is a device developed by LRAD, a military contractor, that uses sound as a weapon. Able to reach 152 decibels, it has the ability to cause permanent hearing damage. The human eardrum will shatter at 160 decibels, while the pain threshold for noise begins at about 120 decibels.

According to The Intercept:

During a company conference call with financial analysts last week, Tom Brown, the chief executive of LRAD, a military contractor, informed investors that sales were rolling in, not just from Chinese government agencies and the U.S. Navy, but also from American law enforcement.

You can listen to that phone call right below:

The Acoustic Cannon has been used already in a few incidents. Most notably it was used last year as protests erupted into disorder in Ferguson. The NYPD used the cannon as a loudspeaker to disperse Union Square protestors in solidarity with Baltimore protesters earlier this year. Baltimore police also had the weapon at their disposal during the protests that turned disorderly in the wake of the killing of Freddie Gray.

LRAD is pleased as punch that a streak of police killings has led to protests which have caused more interest in their inhumane product.

Brown told financial analysts in a May conference call about the “renewed interest” from police departments. “A lot of grant money starts to flow to law enforcement, and we’re getting a lot of inquiries” following protests, he said.

Now its not like military contractors and arms manufacturers have some sort of moral pedestal from which they could fall. Their war profiteering over the course of the last century was already being lambasted in the middle part of the last century by one of the US Military’s most decorated officers ever, General Smedley Butler, in his short book War Is A Racket. [which you can read online here]

It is not even new that ‘defense’ contractors have worked with government to develop weapons to be used against its own citizens. In fact, there is nothing new here except the fact that even giving the appearance of having any scruples is something weapon makers and their stockholders couldn’t give any fucks less about.

Is it clear to you yet that there is an entire subset of society, a very small percent, who have no interest in the health, safety, well-being, rights or liberties of the rest of us? Is it still not getting through that the police are just employees of these de facto rulers, a shield between us and them, as well as to keep us divided, distracted and weak?

If you are still viewing your country with the same level of understanding that a 6-year-old in Sunday school has for complex theological ideas like the Trinity, communion or free will vs. predeterminism, then it is time to wake up and look below the surface of the false and artificially constructed mainstream narrative. Your delusory bubble can only protect you from knowledge, but it will not protect you from what becomes possible when the citizens ignore an empire spinning out-of-control.