I can’t tell yet if the U.S. actually provoked this conflict between Russia and Georgia, like the lefties are saying—hard to know what’s going on over there, through our slanted news filter—but it’s clear from news videos that the Georgian government has been an avid student of “crowd control,” with the U.S. as its teacher. The United States also funds the brutal weaponry which you can see police using on protesters in Tbilisi, the Georgian capital, in this clip: www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrP9n0fKl0o

They broke out the notorious sound machine, an "acoustic weapon" also routinely used in Iraq (and rolled out but never used at the 2004 Republican National Convention in New York), which emits a high-pitched scream devised to "disperse crowds." It can also burst eardrums. They used high-powered water cannons, which make the days of Selma look almost quaint. They used tear gas and rubber bullets. So-called “non-lethal weapons” are big business in America, and exported around the globe. Don’t believe what you hear about how they save lives (the manufacturers themselves prefer the less actionable term “less-than-lethal"); they kill people, and their actual and sometimes stated purpose is the suppression of dissent.

More on "non-lethal" weapons:
http://cryptome.org/garden-plot.htm
http://demilitarizethepolice.netfirms.com/nonlethal.html
http://www.wired.com/politics/law/news/2002/09/55337
http://www.brad.ac.uk/acad/nlw/
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=9554