Crowd control News

Washington - The Pentagon is busy testing pain weapons. Rather than using human guinea pigs as test subjects, the Pentagon will employ "human surrogate" dummies who will not complain or form a union to ask for greater risk pay premiums.

London - A group of scientists in Britain, commissioned by the government to research new developments in neuroscience of use to the military now says the government may be readying itself to use “incapacitating chemical agents” for crowd control.

New York - Among the anti-protest arsenal being used against Occupy Wall Street protesters is a sound amplifier developed by the military. The Long Range Acoustical Device can blast a small area with 110 decibels of sound, equivalent to a power saw at close range.

Crowd control is now a permanent way of life at the Bloor subway station in Toronto. After a two-week trial the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) has decided that the move was a success.