a post by Cory Doctorow for the Boing Boing blog
This short interview with Homer Venters from Physicians for Human Rights, recorded in May at the the Right to Protest conference in Buenas Aires, is a succinct and important summary of the lie of “less-lethal” crowd-control weapons that kill and maim protesters, from tear-gas burns on lung-tissue to lethal, point-blank rubber bullet usage.
Continue reading (there’s a video, some more text and a link to further information about crowd control weapons)
Less lethal? That is a very poor use of the English language. Lethal means I am going to be dead, destroyed, annihilated. How can I be less dead?
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