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This is What Rubber Bullets Look Like
This is what the police and corporate media refer to as rubber bullets!
This is what "Rubber Bullets" Look Like
Just wanted to post this for people to see what the corporate media and the police state refer to as "Rubber Bullets". These pellets, with a Canadian 25 cent piece for scale is what is being fired on demonstrators in Quebec City. I hesitated at first to post this, not wanting to play into the hype and shift the focus toward violence and away from the issues (like the corporate media does), but these pellets are large and much harder than average rubber, and have caused substantial injury.
As many may have heard by now, the medical clinic set up for the demonstrators was closed down, with people forced out at gunpoint earlier this evening. There are a few safe havens where injured activists are being treated.
Resistance to corporate dominance and corporate driven globalization is met around the world by men and women with guns. Whether it is the military in Ecuador or the paramilitary in Colombia or the junta in Burma or the RCMP on the streets of Quebec, it seems impossible for the "free" trade neoliberal agenda to be carried out without coersion and force to quell the voices of discontent at the inherent injustices.
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CS Gas affects the body in the following manner:
(mg/m3 is milligrams by cubic meter)
TC50 (minimal effect eyes): 0.004 mg/m3
TC50 (minimal effect airways): 0.023 mg/m3
IC50 (maximal effect): 3.6 mg/m3
Anything over those doses can cause serious injuries to possibly lethal. CS Gas KILLS in high concentrations. The attacks by the police during A20 could had killed, since they sometimes fired several canisters at the same place, in a no wind and gas saturated air. We got lucky no one got his lungs burnt out.
For longterm effects, the only thing scientists can say is "Toxicological investigations have been unable to demonstrate effects of tear gases on genetic material or on foetal development in experimental animals or humans. Neither has any increased risk of cancer been observed "
If you want to neutralize CS Gas during an attack by the cops, get yourself a bucket of icy water mixed with the highest possible concetration of NON-FLAMMABLE alkili (ph9 and higher). Cold and alkali, thats the solution. The higher the ph the better. Watch out for your skin!!!
Or simply were a gas mask. That's the best. Hehe.
(sorry for the bad english)