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Ministry of Homeland Security’s “LED Incapacitator”
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Nick Langewis and David Edwards
Raw Story
February 16, 2008
Homeland Security commissions new human incapacitation device
One company has received an $800,000 contract from the Department of Homeland Security to develop a new “non-lethal” method of human incapacitation for use by law enforcement.
By 2010, Intelligent Optical Systems hopes to be selling a sort of high-powered flashlight, the “LED Incapacitator,” which would act by not only effectively blinding its target, but overloading his or her brain, with rapidly flashing lights at varying colors and frequencies. In addition to disorientation, headache and nausea are also likely.
The device, designed with help from the Los Angeles Police Department, could end up in the hands on the Coast Guard, Border Patrol, Secret Service and air marshals.
“It really doesn’t do any damage to you,” says Homeland Security’s David Throckmorton. “For them, it would be to stop a terrorist–or whoever–from advancing…or somebody who’s out of line on an airplane–would be able to stop them from moving forward.”
“Let’s not pretend these are anything less than a weapon,” contends the ACLU’s Michael Soller. “Tasers,” he uses as an example, “were sold to police departments and police officers were trained that they were non-lethal. We have 300 deaths over the past few years that show that that claim was not true.”
“We’ve been very careful to design this so the maximum permissible exposure limit for human eye safety is never exceeded,” says IOS’ Robert Lieberman on the risk of blindness from being subjected to the device.
Any applicable risk of other phenomena, such as seizure, is not covered in the accompanying reports, nor has data been made available on IOS’ website.
CBS 13 News has more here.
A recent report from CBS 3 News in Philadelphia is available here.
The accompanying video was broadcast on CBS 13 News on February 4, 2008.
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Reading and watching the video above, one gets the idea the light is harmless. Robert Lieberman and co-developer Vladimir Rubtsov, however, describe the weapon as a bit more sinister.
From Wired:
Government-funded researchers are building a flashlight that makes people puke on command.
The LED Incapacitator uses a range-finder to measure the distance to a target’s eyes, Threat Level notes. Then it unleashes continually changing, multi-color light pulses that make the target feel bad — really bad. The "effects, whose effectiveness depends on the person, range from disorientation to vertigo to nausea," according to Technology Review.
The trick isn’t trying to figure out which light-pulse sequence will make people hurl. "There’s one wavelength that gets everybody,” says Robert Lieberman, who along with his partner Vladimir Rubtsov, is developing the Incapicator for the Department of Homeland Security. “Vlad calls it the evil color.”
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February 16th, 2008 at 5:49 pm
In retaliation, we would need a 52″ Plasma Flat Screen HDTV and that episode of Pokemon that sent all those Japanese kids to the hospital.
February 16th, 2008 at 6:43 pm
I’ll be sure wear my mirrored shades. I don’t suppose they care what happens to epileptics, right?
February 16th, 2008 at 7:39 pm
bring mirrors to the march!
February 16th, 2008 at 7:39 pm
and hog tazers!
February 16th, 2008 at 7:46 pm
Its like the Nurilizer from the MIB movies
February 16th, 2008 at 8:03 pm
make the pollice wear a dress ,that would make them more humble
February 16th, 2008 at 10:30 pm
Alot better than tasers.
February 16th, 2008 at 10:36 pm
It seems to me that special glasses could be created that block that specific wavelength, much like shades block UVA/UVB wavelengths.
February 16th, 2008 at 11:22 pm
piece of junky equipment, shoot all you need is an LED array and an simple IC circuit. You can build one yourself. Looks like a nightclub light. Could use those for night club except not be harmful.
February 16th, 2008 at 11:39 pm
looks like they plan to use much of the know frequency range from sound canons to talking to you inside your head hello its your god speaking stop that , leds and lasers . They have a good head start i’d say.
February 17th, 2008 at 12:08 am
There are going to be a heck of a lot more epilepsy or seizures now. . .
February 17th, 2008 at 12:34 am
ROFLMAO- You are retarded if you think these torture devices are designed to be used against anyone but you. Using this to stop a terrorist?? What kind of terrorist could be stopped by this? That helpless woman in the video is conducting an interview during the use of the device ! This is designed to torture a previosly disarmed public into doing anything a brownshirt says.
February 17th, 2008 at 2:51 am
you can always do the smart thing and close your eyes
although it might in this case be as hard as trying to let go of a cord when you are getting electrocuted
damn…
February 17th, 2008 at 11:06 am
Another device to be abused by the police like the taser!
February 17th, 2008 at 2:14 pm
I think all these sick control freaks are crying-out for attention and/or some sort of ‘validation’. Do you think maybe Freud was right?
February 17th, 2008 at 5:26 pm
JFK-related items bound to titillate
Boxes of forgotten memorabilia surface in old safe in Dallas
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23213227
Did alex lose a box of documents ?
Or is the establishment prepairing us for the truth before Alex releases his new JFK documentary?
February 17th, 2008 at 7:45 pm
Benja S Sariwatta:
You’ve just made my day. thanks. lmao
February 17th, 2008 at 10:41 pm
So there you go. Homeland Security is no longer just for “terrorists” who are overseas. It’s for us stupid!!!
February 18th, 2008 at 8:02 am
Is that magic color puke green?
February 18th, 2008 at 4:05 pm
Hypothetically, if one were confronted with such a device 1 well placed round aimed at the light followed by 1 round an inch to the left and right could be very effective. Hypothetically of course.
February 19th, 2008 at 10:30 am
Keep your shades on and hold your overcoat in front of you some distance to protect against tazars.
February 19th, 2008 at 3:06 pm
I wonder how mirrored sunglasses would react with this LED incapacitator?
February 19th, 2008 at 4:01 pm
Good luck to all the “guinea pigs” this year! The taser experiment went pretty well, 300 deaths!
February 19th, 2008 at 6:52 pm
The Fascist pigs can’t wait for all the futuristic torture machines they’ll be able to use on the pathetic slaves of America!!! Hip,hip hooray!!! for torture and a public that claps their hands for such devices!! Cant wait!!
February 19th, 2008 at 7:05 pm
F***K THIS FASCISTS!!!!THEY WILL KISS OUR ASS SOON!!!!!
February 19th, 2008 at 10:31 pm
I only have one thing to say.
Sunglasses!
February 19th, 2008 at 10:46 pm
Look down. Advance forward untill you see the goons feet and start swinging.
February 19th, 2008 at 11:11 pm
does geneva know about this? isnt “altering the minds preception to what is reality” (easy now dopeheads) against geneva? i mean, if i cant think, how is that not torture. i know americans are completely ignorant of that word, but is it against the geneva convention?
February 19th, 2008 at 11:19 pm
note to self, buy 1/4″ thick plexiglass mirrors
February 20th, 2008 at 9:24 am
I think that any cop or government official with posession of such a device is fair game to be put down, permanently!!
February 28th, 2008 at 8:22 pm
This device isn’t new, it’s been used for years by the CIA and was described by a witness to the Lady Di “murder” as he entered the tunnel behind her limo. The speculation was that a motorcycle ahead of them used the advanced strobe to blind the driver which caused the crash.
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