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Will TSA Taser Bracelets Stage a Comeback?
The next absurd outrage from Big Government’s TSA may be Taser bracelets:
In 2008, the Washington Times reported on how DHS official Paul S. Ruwaldt of the Science and Technology Directorate, office of Research and Development, wrote to Lamperd Less Lethal, Inc. indicating that the Department of Homeland Security was ready to purchase devices from the company that would be used to deliver incapacitating shocks to airline passengers, all of whom would be mandated to wear the taser bracelet once they checked in for their flight.
The so-called “safety bracelet,” also known as the Electronic ID Bracelet, was designed to replace a boarding pass and be capable of tracking the passenger through the airport by means of GPS technology. The device would also contain details about the passenger and their flight plans.
The primary function of the device was to allow airport officials and flight crews to deliver an incapacitating electric shock to travelers by means of Electro-Muscular Disruption (EMD), completely immobilizing the individual for minutes. The bracelet would be worn by all travelers until they disembarked at their location. The patent for the device admits that all passengers could be incapacitated if the devices are activated.
Numerous government agencies expressed interest in the Taser bracelet, which would also have interrogation applications.
DavidD
October 12th, 2012
Didn’t I see this on a Star Trek episode once?
Scotty, beam me up; there’s no intelligent life here.
dba_vagabond_trader
October 12th, 2012
This is a joke, right? Please tell us this is a joke.
dba_vagabond_trader
October 12th, 2012
If it isn’t a joke, the story is dated July 2008. Not that a Ubama regime wouldn’t slobber all over such a device.
4inchtoenails
October 12th, 2012
deja vu – all over again…
Carlos The Jackal
October 12th, 2012
I have a better idea: let’s require all politicians and upper-level bureauweenies to wear a shock-collar upon swearing-in or hiring. When one of them screws up, they all get zapped!
The last line is a howler: Sounds like they think it would make a good torture device.
How long before this escalates to driver license holders? Before or after the revolution?
Machloja
October 12th, 2012
Oh, marvelous idea, with small ajustment: drop the teaser part, make it little bit bigger, fill it with few ounces of C-4, hung it on every muslim neck boarding a plane, and I’m all for it.
Unruly Refugee
October 12th, 2012
There was a Ray Liotta movie, No Escape, I think was the name, where the prisoners had to wear neck rings that would explode if they misbehaved.
Is that what the TSA bastards are striving for?
Jethro
October 12th, 2012
If this happens I will stop flying. I am not an animal!
…well, at least when I’m flying…
Anonymous
October 12th, 2012
I’d sooner walk coast to coast with a broken leg.
Screw these sick bastards.
Unruly Refugee
October 12th, 2012
The commercial airline industry lost all my business right after 9-11 when they adapted the Be Kind To muslims policies. Now I fly private or I drive. Screw them!
Bloodless Coup
October 12th, 2012
“Saudi Arabia has called for a new international body to censor the internet”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/google/9602263/Anti-Islam-film-prompts-Saudi-call-for-net-censorship-body.html
Defend Human Rights, Defeat Jihad!
ironyCurtain
October 12th, 2012
If they had only used my idea: Muslim-Free Airlines. we wouldn’t be in this mess.
Chuck O
October 12th, 2012
What’s most depressing is you know people would willingly subject themselves and their children to it.
Mr.Gates
October 12th, 2012
I don’t know about collars on public “servants”, but mandatory drug testing is a must. As well as a proper loyalty vetting, like Obama didn’t get.
old_oaks
October 12th, 2012
I already avoid commercial flight as much as possible, I’ll avoid it altogether if I have to wear a bracelet.
They should have shocker restaurant pagers!
Corona
October 12th, 2012
Just tell them if the shocker turns on it’ll detonate the 30-megaton bomb within your guts.
AvgDude
October 12th, 2012
Inching towards a prison state one little “reasonable” sounding nudge at a time. Hell, why where them when just flying. Why don’t we just wear these 24 hours per day, 7 days per week, every day of the year for the rest of our lives. That way, when we do something wrong, people designated to have authority over us can just taze us whenever they feel like it. Late for work?… Taze… Give a cop a funny look?… Taze… Criticize a politician?… Taze.
Whenever I hear about something like this, the only way I can cope with the outrage is to dream up some cathartic fantasy that immediately addresses how I feel about the outrageousness of the idea. My daydream about this involves being present at a demonstration of these technology where some smug sales representative explains how much it would improve flying safety by having all travelers wear a tazer bracelet that grants the power to torture you mercilessly into the hands of some fatass, stupid fucktard of a TSA agent, and then I calmly get up, pull out my .45 and empty the clip into the salesman’s head.
This is sick, twisted, fascist bullshit. And if it gets adopted, then I will never fly again, and that is a fact.
Nobama '12
October 12th, 2012
I want the taser to protect me from the TSA.
grayjohn
October 13th, 2012
How to get rid of the TSA:
1. Stop flying until they are removed.
2. Cancel all reservations and vacation plans until
they are removed.
3. Inform travel agents and airlines and hotels why
you are cancelling.
It may be hard, but the TSA can’t survive a dose of reality. It will take 2 weeks max.