US Forest Service purchases 700 Tasers

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United States Forest Service Purchases 700 TASER X26 Electronic Control Devices
Federal Agencies Continue to Show Growth Opportunities
September 19, 2007: 07:30 AM EST

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., Sept. 19, 2007 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) -- TASER International, Inc. (Nasdaq:TASR), a market leader in advanced electronic control devices, today announced that it received an order from the United States Forest Service for 700 TASER® X26 electronic control devices and related accessories.

"We are excited about this new additional federal agency purchasing TASER technology to protect life," said Tom Smith, Chairman and Founder of TASER international. "Traditionally, we have focused law enforcement sales at the local and state level, but we are now seeing acceptance of TASER technology at various federal law enforcement agencies."

"We have seen a continual marked increase in TASER technology purchases at the federal level following our initial U.S. military approval of a five-year indefinite delivery indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contract. We are proud that law enforcement within the Departments of Defense, Justice, Homeland Security, Interior, and Agriculture are now relying on TASER devices to protect life." ...

http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/art ... 126937.htm

[Hugh Manatee Wins]

Gosh, you don't suppose the date of this story is another wonderous and mystical synchronicity of the 'associative universe,' do you?

Deepak Chopra would feel so loved!



This copy sounds like the radio sales hype that begins, "Now's your chance to save!"
The sales pitch all through it was obviously written by Taser.
"Taser....for Life." *harp glissando*

So maybe there's an aggressive woodchuck problem they are dealing with
Yeah, I'm sure it's just something like that.

[theeKultleeder]

Dude, it's the forest service people who deal with the drop-outs, the latter day hippies, and the rainbow kids. I've been out there in the woods, free and lovin' the big open sky. Lots of good people gather in our National Parks.

This story ain't funny.

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Is this for when the people spilt for the woods when the cities are full of robo Nazis?


Years ago (1990) I learned the FDA has SWAT teams. Most of the alphabets do.

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TASER International assumes no obligation to update the information contained in this press release. These statements are qualified by important factors that could cause our actual results to differ materially from those reflected by the forward-looking statements. Such factors include but are not limited to:.......(6) risks associated with rapid technological change and new product introductions; (7) competition; (8) litigation including lawsuits resulting from alleged product related injuries and death; (9) media publicity concerning allegations of deaths and injuries occurring after use of the TASER device and the negative effect this publicity could have on our sales

[OnoI812]

Is this for when the people spilt for the woods when the cities are full of robo Nazis?


Years ago (1990) I learned the FDA has SWAT teams. Most of the alphabets do.

yep, There is also anti trailblazing legislation in the works, They want to close off roads that access the bush, close most of the ATV trails and turn existing trails into patroled roads of sorts, where you'll need permission for your group to enter and if you veer from the trails there will be stiff penalties...The rangers already have police powers. I wouldn't be surprised if they plan on mounting cameras in the woods, and plan on setting up deep bush dui/license checkpoints in the middle of nowhere. Don't ask me how they plan on enforcing this, all I know is what their intention is.

[StarmanSkye]

"Now's your chance to save!" indeed.

More likely, the Forest Service (sic) recieved a supplemental budget appropriation specifically earmarked for this purchase as part of the Fed's ongoing coordinated social-acculturation public-compliance/control program. I can hardly imagine that the Forest Service leadership has identified such a critical need for Tasers that they'd willingly divert the costs from the agency's operating funds -- especially because Tasers would hardly have much use in the kind of enforcement the FS is usually involved in.

This just doesn't make much practical sense -- other than intimidating the public and getting them used to following orders -- OR getting tasered.

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Things I recall reading:

About a year ago, US Forest Service had to tak and oath to BUSH.

All of the envoronmental stuff about protecting wilderness was really part of a UN plan to grab land, and make it OFF LIMITS to the people. NOTHING to do with habitat & wild life protection, as sold to the publc. I believe there are maps of these areas.

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http://wolves.wordpress.com/2007/08/18/ ... gulations/

This might provide some information. Could they be arming the Forest Service to be the next corporate police force?

[theeKultleeder]

Things I recall reading:

About a year ago, US Forest Service had to tak and oath to BUSH.

All of the envoronmental stuff about protecting wilderness was really part of a UN plan to grab land, and make it OFF LIMITS to the people. NOTHING to do with habitat & wild life protection, as sold to the publc. I believe there are maps of these areas.

I've never heard that before. There are several state and national parks that are very special to me, and for years they've been slowly sold off to logging and development interests. It's a sham(e).

[nomo]

Don't you know that forests are really dangerous (and always have been)?

http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0802/p02s01-ussc.html

Fighting fires isn't the only big problem facing Smokey the Bear these days. Urban-style violence against forest rangers is intruding more than ever into the nation's public forests.

Drug smugglers, armed robbers, and hard-partying or alienated city dwellers are setting up camp in the deep woods and clashing more with rangers, US Forest Service personnel say.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/26/us/26rangers.html

Methamphetamine laboratories are a particular problem, rangers say, mainly in the forests with the biggest canopy cover, like those in the Appalachian Mountains and the Pacific Northwest. In the last four years, rangers made 1,600 felony drug arrests and seized 759 methamphetamine laboratories in national forests, government records show.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/l ... ls15m.html

"Park rangers are the most assaulted federal officers," Jordan said. "Urban police officers had a lot more crime to deal with, but we have less staff."

http://www.timberjay.com/current.php?article=3695

According to the complaint, these six men went into the wilderness with the intent of terrorizing campers. They brought weapons, including an AK47, and fireworks, damaged and stole property, and threatened to murder and rape terrified campers, including children.

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Don't you know that forests are really dangerous (and always have been)?

http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0802/p02s01-ussc.html

Fighting fires isn't the only big problem facing Smokey the Bear these days. Urban-style violence against forest rangers is intruding more than ever into the nation's public forests.

Drug smugglers, armed robbers, and hard-partying or alienated city dwellers are setting up camp in the deep woods and clashing more with rangers, US Forest Service personnel say.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/26/us/26rangers.html

Methamphetamine laboratories are a particular problem, rangers say, mainly in the forests with the biggest canopy cover, like those in the Appalachian Mountains and the Pacific Northwest. In the last four years, rangers made 1,600 felony drug arrests and seized 759 methamphetamine laboratories in national forests, government records show.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/l ... ls15m.html

"Park rangers are the most assaulted federal officers," Jordan said. "Urban police officers had a lot more crime to deal with, but we have less staff."

http://www.timberjay.com/current.php?article=3695

According to the complaint, these six men went into the wilderness with the intent of terrorizing campers. They brought weapons, including an AK47, and fireworks, damaged and stole property, and threatened to murder and rape terrified campers, including children.

Interesting. What one might call laying the groundwork.

[John E. Nemo]

I'm constantly amazed that people aren't familiar with facts that people like Alex Jones has been screaming about for 15 years.

Maybe.... put down the Necronomicon and read a magazine?

Grabbing Our Land?

U.S. News and World Report, July 21, 1997, Cover Story: "Parks in Peril"

"The national parks have been called the best idea America had. But their wild beauty and historical treasures are rapidly deteriorating from lack of funds, pollution, encroaching development, overcrowding, and congressional indifference."

This is true, but there's a lot more to it that we are not being told. Our parks, national and state, are being taken over by forces that are beyond our control. The problem is not only congressional indifference, but public indifference due to media misinformation. It is time to quit mainstream media and sample some alternatives. The following info comes from the website of the Concerned Women for America (www.cwfa.org)

Fact: The Clinton administration is implementing United Nations treaties without congressional or voter approval. Already 68% of our national parks and preserves are under U.N. administration.

Fact: U.N. committees are empowered to visit "World Heritage Sites" within the U.S. to judge whether human activity poses an environmental risk and if it need to be curtailed.

Fact: The Clinton administration is transferring tens of millions of acres of land to the federal government to be placed under U.N. control.

Fact: Towns in the Cuyahoga River Valley near Akron, Ohio, have lost much of their population as the National Park Service under U.N. provisions, has condemned and torn down homes, farms, forcing people to leave their land.

Fact: The U.N. Biodiversity Treaty supports the Wildlands Project, which calls for turning 50% of the U.S. into "wildlands" where humans would not be allowed, but animals could roam free.

Our National Parks Now Belong to United Nations

A newsletter photo of a sign at the park entrance reads, "Great Smoky Mountains National Park, An International Biosphere Reserve...you and I will continue to pay taxes for the maintenance and upkeep of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. But we no longer own it. Now, the UN has ultimate jurisdiction. This alone is startling evidence that the once independent nation-state known as the United States of America is going out with a whimper and not a bang. Our sovereignty is coming to an end...

Don't believe it?
It is on official websites for National Parks.

http://www.nps.gov/archive/ever/presskit/heritage.htm

With its special significance to the Nation and the world recognized by making the Everglades a National Park, an International Biosphere Reserve, a World Heritage Site, and a Ramsar Wetland of International Importance[b], its preservation for the benefit of present and future generations is better assured.

[b]International Biosphere Reserves are a project of the Man and the Biosphere program of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). Reserves are protected samples of the world's major ecosystem types. These sites are standards against which we can measure human impact on our environment and predict its probable effects. There are now over 190 reserves in 50 countries. Established for its biological values, Everglades National Park was added to this world list on October 26, 1976.

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World Heritage Sites World Heritage Sites are also designated by UNESCO under the Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage. By the World Heritage Convention's 25th anniversary in 1997, nearly 150 nations had ratified the agreement and placed more than 500 sites on the World Heritage List.
The Everglades, a subtropical mosaic of surprising diversity, is a refuge for 13 threatened or endangered animal species. Here, human history spans over 2000 years--from nomadic Calusa to modern settler. Because of this unique weave of natural and cultural history, Everglades National Park became a World Heritage Site on October 26, 1979.

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Ramsar Wetland of International Importance Known popularly as the "Ramsar Convention", the Convention on Wetlands, signed in Ramsar, Iran, in 1971, is an intergovernmental treaty which provides the framework for national action and international cooperation for the conservation and wise use of wetlands and their resources. There are presently 116 parties to the Convention, with 1005 wetland sites, designated for inclusion in the Ramsar List of Wetlands of International Importance.
The Everglades was designated as a Wetland of International Importance on June 4, 1987.

[nomo]

Ah yes, that scary Clinton administration and the ever so scary United Nations bogeyman.

In other words, us brave and freedom lovin' Merkans can't even flee to the wilderness anymore because Clinton gave all of our parks to the UN!

I especially love all these "Facts!" without even an attempt to back them up with an appropriate cite.

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