i must agree

“It seems fundamentally a weapon that's designed to create a great deal of pain and fear,” Johnson said. “The concern I would have is … once this kind of technology is available and there's a perception that it's safe and nonlethal, it seems like a natural device to be used in interrogations.

weapons like this, the beam, will be used for torture. just like radio antennas are used as whips, sadists and sociopaths, such as our government seems to hire from private companies, don't really see the difference between treating a human as a human, vs treating them as a means to information.