MOOOOO

I was taken aback by this story on BBC news yesterday…

Campaigners are calling for a ban on a device that emits a high-pitched sound to disperse groups of teenagers, saying it is not a fair way to treat them.

I was partly stunned because I had no idea this was happening in the first place. Shops and businesses are using the things to make children move away from outside their shops. Read on a bit…

There are estimated to be 3,500 of the devices, known as the Mosquito, in use in England, many at shopping centres.

Their sound causes discomfort to young ears – but their frequency is above the normal hearing range of people over 25.

England’s children’s commissioner backs a ban but stores say the devices can be useful against anti-social youths.

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The devices, which exploit the fact that a person’s ability to hear high frequencies generally declines once they reach their 20s, have proved popular with councils and police who aim to tackle anti-social behaviour by using them to disperse groups of youths.

So it seems English adults are so terrified of their own children that they employ electronic devices to move them along and effectively bar them from an area.

Not only that, but these devices are pre-emptive in the sense of any actual crime being committed and are indiscriminate. It is also a form of collective punishment.

This is a disgusting use of technology and one of the leaders of the campaign against these things, Sir Al Aynsley-Green put it correctly…

“These devices are indiscriminate and target all children and young people, including babies, regardless of whether they are behaving or misbehaving.

“The use of measures such as these are simply demonising children and young people, creating a dangerous and widening divide between the young and the old.”

Shami Chakrabarti from the campaign group Liberty said..

“What type of society uses a low-level sonic weapon on its children? Imagine the outcry if a device was introduced that caused blanket discomfort to people of one race or gender, rather than to our kids?”

No wonder the kids are angry. If you treat people like cattle you have to expect them to shit in the field that you have herded them into.

Song for the day..

Animals in the Zoo – The Kinks…

You’re just an animal in the zoo
Sittin’ round feeling persecuted and abused
You’re locked up and I’m on the loose
But I can’t quite tell who’s looking at who
’cause I’m an animal, too
But you’re locked up in a zoo
And you look at me and I look at you

God made the heaven and the deep blue sea
But man picked the flowers and he pulled up the trees
God mad the moon and the rain and the sun
But man made the money and the bombs and the guns

So we’re all animals, too
But you’re locked up in a zoo
And you look at me and I look at you

I’m a prisoner but I got no cage
I’m locked up but I got no chain
But the good guys lose and the bad guys win
That’s why you’re looking out and I’m looking in
But we’re all animals, too
But you’re locked up in a zoo
’cause you look at me and I look at you