What the shit is going on in this country? The cops can drug you?
Cameras on every freaking street corner. Electronic monitoring in Massachusetts that's coming up... WTF? Anyone ever seen "Equilibrium"? Is this where we are headed? On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 12:12 PM, Paul Ferguson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > WTF? > > Via WSMV.com. > > [snip] > > While the [Nashville, TH] Metro police had banned the use of Tasers for a > time, they still used a controversial method to subdue unruly people, > according to an I-Team report. > > The city's policy to use the method, which calls for the injection of a > drug into a person, came as a "total surprise" to people most would expect > to know all about it. > > For almost two years, Metro police have had the option of calling for a > needle loaded with a strong sedative to control the most unruly people they > encounter on the street. > > One of the doctors who came up with the protocol said it's the safest > option out there and that it is used all over the country. > > But many people said that the injection was news to them, and a top medical > ethicist said it's a troubling precedent. > > The drug is called Midazolam, which is better known as Versed. People who > have had a colonoscopy have probably had a shot of the drug for the > procedure. > > "The drug has an amnesia effect, and we use that therapeutically because > one of the nice ways to take care of the discomfort is to make people > forget that they've had it," said biomedical ethics and law enforcement > expert Dr. Steven Miles. > > But the shots have also been used on the streets on people police said were > out of control. > > [snip] > > More: > http://www.wsmv.com/news/16844880/detail.html > > Hat-tip, Schneier: > http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2008/07/midazolam_as_a.html > > And as Schneier points out: > > "The biggest side effect is amnesia, which makes it harder for any > defendant to defend himself in court." > > - - ferg > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: PGP Desktop 9.6.3 (Build 3017) > > wj8DBQFIgOskq1pz9mNUZTMRArEaAKDZsEu17xdyhG3WKE3Z5dy4Nwl2+QCfRT2L > T3qXO5PJ9Mj48lrQbyBvU90= > =JB+W > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > > -- > "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson > Engineering Architecture for the Internet > fergdawg(at)netzero.net > ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/ > > > _______________________________________________ > Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. > https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec > Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list. > -- Rob _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
