These new weapons are being deployed right now in time for the conventions. We are indeed heading into a brave new world.
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99996014
Dershowitz has been trying to put a happy face on torture for a couple of years now on talk shows and in a book I believe. It's no wonder the government is working so hard to try and reshape our definitions of torture.
These 'crowd control' weapons will indiscriminately deliver torture en masse to innocent people, and will be in the hands of the Lyndee Englands of the world. The technology is racing way ahead of the ethics which is why those itchy to use the stuff are scrambling to come up with why it's okay. Drop your socks and grab your cocks. Uncle Sam's getting ready to shock the system.