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COMING SOON TO A PROTEST IN YOUR CITY
DANGER ROOM - Imagine if the military could incapacitate an entire crowd
of people with a nonlethal weapon mounted on a Humvee. That's what the
Marine Corps hopes to do with its Mission Payload Module Non-Lethal
Weapons System
The MPM-NLWS will provide a joint warfighting capability that delivers
counter personnel non-lethal effects applicable to controlling crowds,
denying/defending areas, controlling access and engaging threats while
providing increased standoff distance for protection of friendly forces.
These non-lethal effects will enable friendly forces the following
capabilities: deny, disrupt and/or canalize enemy movements and
maneuvers; Deny enemy access to terrain or facilities; Enhance friendly
force weapons, obstacles, and munitions effects; Generate exploitable
delays and opportunities; Produce desired effects on enemy forces
(non-lethal); and reduce causalities and risks to the U.S. and allied
forces. The MPM-NLWS will be designed to operate in all operating
environments and is well suited for asymmetric warfare, urban
environments, maritime security, homeland defense and decisive combat
engagements.
http://blog.wired.com/defense/2008/01/nonlethal-crowd.html
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STUPID UNIVERSITY TRICKS: STUDENT KICKED OUT FOR OPPOSING PARK LOT
INSIDE HIGHER ED - T. Hayden Barnes opposed his university's plan to
build two large parking garages with $30 million from students'
mandatory fees. So last spring, he did what any student activist would
do: He posted fliers criticizing the plan, wrote mass e-mails to
students, sent letters to administrators and wrote a letter to the
editor of the campus newspaper. While that kind of campaign might be
enough to annoy university officials, Barnes never thought it would get
him expelled.
Rather than ignore him or set up a meeting with concerned students,
Valdosta State University, in Georgia, informed Barnes, then a
sophomore, that he had been "administratively withdrawn" effective May
7, 2007. In a letter apparently slipped under his dorm room door, Ronald
Zaccari, the university's president, wrote that he "present[ed] a clear
and present danger to this campus" and referred to the "attached
threatening document," a printout of an image from an album on Barnes's
Facebook profile. The collage featured a picture of a parking garage, a
photo of Zaccari, a bulldozer, the words "No Blood for Oil" and the
title "S.A.V.E.-Zaccari Memorial Parking Garage," a reference to a
campus environmental group and Barnes's contention that the president
sought to make the structures part of his legacy at the university.
The letter also said that in order to return as a student, a
non-university psychiatrist would have to certify that Barnes was not a
threat to himself or anyone else, and that he would receive "on-going
therapy." After he appealed, with endorsements from a psychiatrist and a
professor, the Georgia Board of Regents "didn't do the right thing and
reverse the expulsion," said William Creeley, a senior program officer
at the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, a nonprofit
organization that defends students' free expression rights and helped
Barnes secure legal counsel. . .
FIRE is simultaneously pressuring Valdosta State to reverse its "free
speech area" policy, which is unusually rigid in restricting student
expression to a single stage on the 168-acre campus, only between the
hours of 12 and 1 p.m. and 5 and 6 p.m., with prior registration.
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2008/01/11/valdosta
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COMING SOON TO A PROTEST IN YOUR CITY
DANGER ROOM - Imagine if the military could incapacitate an entire crowd
of people with a nonlethal weapon mounted on a Humvee. That's what the
Marine Corps hopes to do with its Mission Payload Module Non-Lethal
Weapons System
The MPM-NLWS will provide a joint warfighting capability that delivers
counter personnel non-lethal effects applicable to controlling crowds,
denying/defending areas, controlling access and engaging threats while
providing increased standoff distance for protection of friendly forces.
These non-lethal effects will enable friendly forces the following
capabilities: deny, disrupt and/or canalize enemy movements and
maneuvers; Deny enemy access to terrain or facilities; Enhance friendly
force weapons, obstacles, and munitions effects; Generate exploitable
delays and opportunities; Produce desired effects on enemy forces
(non-lethal); and reduce causalities and risks to the U.S. and allied
forces. The MPM-NLWS will be designed to operate in all operating
environments and is well suited for asymmetric warfare, urban
environments, maritime security, homeland defense and decisive combat
engagements.
http://blog.wired.com/defense/2008/01/nonlethal-crowd.html
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STUPID UNIVERSITY TRICKS: STUDENT KICKED OUT FOR OPPOSING PARK LOT
INSIDE HIGHER ED - T. Hayden Barnes opposed his university's plan to
build two large parking garages with $30 million from students'
mandatory fees. So last spring, he did what any student activist would
do: He posted fliers criticizing the plan, wrote mass e-mails to
students, sent letters to administrators and wrote a letter to the
editor of the campus newspaper. While that kind of campaign might be
enough to annoy university officials, Barnes never thought it would get
him expelled.
Rather than ignore him or set up a meeting with concerned students,
Valdosta State University, in Georgia, informed Barnes, then a
sophomore, that he had been "administratively withdrawn" effective May
7, 2007. In a letter apparently slipped under his dorm room door, Ronald
Zaccari, the university's president, wrote that he "present[ed] a clear
and present danger to this campus" and referred to the "attached
threatening document," a printout of an image from an album on Barnes's
Facebook profile. The collage featured a picture of a parking garage, a
photo of Zaccari, a bulldozer, the words "No Blood for Oil" and the
title "S.A.V.E.-Zaccari Memorial Parking Garage," a reference to a
campus environmental group and Barnes's contention that the president
sought to make the structures part of his legacy at the university.
The letter also said that in order to return as a student, a
non-university psychiatrist would have to certify that Barnes was not a
threat to himself or anyone else, and that he would receive "on-going
therapy." After he appealed, with endorsements from a psychiatrist and a
professor, the Georgia Board of Regents "didn't do the right thing and
reverse the expulsion," said William Creeley, a senior program officer
at the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, a nonprofit
organization that defends students' free expression rights and helped
Barnes secure legal counsel. . .
FIRE is simultaneously pressuring Valdosta State to reverse its "free
speech area" policy, which is unusually rigid in restricting student
expression to a single stage on the 168-acre campus, only between the
hours of 12 and 1 p.m. and 5 and 6 p.m., with prior registration.
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2008/01/11/valdosta
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