Russia outlaws all dissent.

The future intention to commit a crime is now a crime in Russia. Anything to stop people getting uppity about rights or massive corruption I suppose.

But really, those who have no intention to commit a crime, in the eyes of a security officer, have nothing to fear.

More media friendly oppression deployed to Afghanistan!

Pain rays will be used to break up protests and anything else US forces occupying Afghanistan dislike. Still though rejoice in the fact that theres only a 0.1% chance of someone getting injured. Of course that means that for every thousands people this is used upon someone will likely be injured and we've seen with Tasers (remember the original rationale that tasers were only to be used as a nonlethal weapon in situations which would've required a gun?) this is likely to be deeply overused.

It will however allow right wing talking heads to bawl about how terrible the "terrorists" are for using weapons to resist US Imperialism when the US just uses pain rays to stifle dissent.