If I can have Shana as my Drill Thrall Flight Attendant, I'm all for it!
Posted on 07/07/2008 10:55:14 AM PDT by Fizzie
Just when you thought you’ve heard it all...
A senior government official with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has expressed great interest in a so-called safety bracelet that would serve as a stun device, similar to that of a police Taser®. According to this promotional video found at the Lamperd Less Lethal website, the bracelet would be worn by all airline passengers.
This bracelet would:
• take the place of an airline boarding pass
• contain personal information about the traveler
• be able to monitor the whereabouts of each passenger and his/her luggage
• shock the wearer on command, completely immobilizing him/her for several minutes
excerpt...balance of story here: http://www.washingtontimes.com/weblogs/aviation-security/2008/Jul/01/want-some-torture-with-your-peanuts/
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
I didn’t have a huge problem with it until I got to the taser part.
Wasn’t this like the proposal of the ficticous immigration guy from “The Coneheads”??? IIRC the blew up if the person tried to cross the border again....Does this one Blow off your arm if you argue with the TSA????
The last two items could be useful for Bob Filner D. San Diego,, who had trouble getting his luggage, and I think the ability to stun a passenger would of come in handy when he was shoving the baggage handler....
Question... who controls the button?
Suppose there was a brat sitting behind me that keeps kicking my seat and the parent does nothing... can I "shock" Mom or Dad?
This is how it is going to be for the foreseeable future.
I don’t fly unless there is absolutely no way to avoid it.
If we don’t want terrorism, then face the facts about who conducts terrorism most of the time, and do something about that.
It’s like speed bumps on our roads. If people are speeding, write tickets. If kids are being hit in the street, then teach them to look both ways.
Don’t punish 100% of the public, because you refuse to address the real problems caused by a very few people.
And people are going to run right out and buy tickets to Disney World for the whole family with this sort of nonsense in place?
Bye bye, airlines.
And people are going to run right out and buy tickets to Disney World for the whole family with this sort of nonsense in place?
Bye bye, airlines.
Deadlock collars coming soon?
This is the sort of security which secures our freedumbs!
Plus, unless you are an EvilDoer™ (or a drugged out liberaltarian loserdopian), what do you have to worry about?
If I can have Shana as my Drill Thrall Flight Attendant, I'm all for it!
All this will do is destroy our country’s airlines by discouraging even more people from using them.
They are doing a good job on their own with any help.
The DHS apparently wants to give us a just cause for a revolution.
Well, it is unlikely to be tight enough to cut off circulation, so there will be room to shove something between it and the skin. Just shove an insulating sheet there, maybe with a surface between the contacts simulating skin's electrical resistance so the device can't detect the change.
What peanuts? ;)
I bet 200 quatloo that this bracelet never makes it into production ....
Given the iron grip that political correctness has on this country, there is no chance of that happening until we suffer a cataclysmic loss of American life.
MM (in TX)
We can trust our government officials and employees of our free enterprise system to use this device effectively to protect us all from terrorists. I think the only ones who would object to this are terrorists, their fellow travelers and other criminals and evil doers. If you don’t do anything wrong, you have nothing to fear.
I flew today for the first time in about a year and it was a miserable experience. If we were to sit down and try to deliberately create a system to treat human beings in the most bizarre unhuman fashion we could not come up with a system any more miserable than what we have now. I HAD to fly today for work reasons. If I had had more advance time, I would have driven. I absolutely despise flying. I loathe it. Flying for pleasure? That is an oxymoron.
By 2050 the slogan will be...”Tazelets: they’re not just for fliers anymore!”
By 2055, they’ll be mandatory implants.
Big Brother won’t just watch you.
NO NO NO
That will be the death of air travel.
don’t we have enough cause already? wake up people. logans run, next we will line up when it is time to report.
Well as we have seen, even that won’t work.
I am very troubled by our leaders’ inability to face up to their duty.
Ditto to that post!!
Just cut it off with a pocket knife once you’ve boarded the plane. Oh wait...........never mind.
What if they hit the wrong button and zap an innocent passenger?
The fact that AMERICANS are being subject to such totalitarianism is a nightmare come true.
I have no interest in flying as it is, but this solidifies my theory that only a fool would fly under such Stalinist circumstances.
We are suppose to accept whoever is doing the zapping?
Zzzzzzzackly.
The day that law goes into effect is the day I quit flying.
If he works in the DC area he might well live not too far away. Maybe he would like to try this thing out - on himself of course - for several hours a day for a couple of weeks. I have plenty of time and would be quite willing to stop by each morning to do my shift.
You think they're going to waste a lot of time figuring out which passenger? If things get a little out-of-hand, they'll just hit the Big Red Button and shock the whole plane...
Such overbearing security for the airplanes yet a few terrorists could walk up to the ticket counters with suitcase bombs and create a tragedy.
Flying is a sufficient pain already, if this happens, my business flights will go to zero as well.
This is bu77541t
Excellent comment. I agree.
I hate speed bumps. I could see having them in school zones if they could be raised during just the time when kids were coming and going to school, but not for the other 22 hours or so a day and summer, etc.
And why don’t the “greenies” and car haters ever figure out how much more pollution is caused and gas used by all the slowing and speeding up for these traffic control devices.
And further more,....why isn’t there MORE FREE PARKING to keep cars stopped instead of driving around in circles looking for parking? How about changing most stop signs in empty neighborhoods to slow and yield signs. How about every stop light being computer controlled so you don’t have to stop if there is no approaching traffic?
How about everybody becoming responsible for their own life and behavior? Too complicated?
And you’re right about punishing the majority because of just a few.
I’m sick of all the whining self appointed “victims” running our society.
So there!
Good grief! But, whatever you do, do NOT engage in passenger profiling.
Everybody knows that explosive neck collars work much better. That or high voltage stainless steel butt plugs.
“Coffee, tea, or YAAAARRRRGGHGGHH!!!”
Better safe than sorry! For an added layer of security, they could randomly taze 5-10 people per flight and perform a cavity search while they are incapacitated. No inconvenience is too great for the security of the Motherland.
You mean you can still get peanuts on flights?
Someone needs to name names. Does it really matter whether it is a foreign or a domestic oppressor anyway? This pantload needs to be fired for either being totally incompetent or negligent towards the Constitution he swore an oath to protect.
"Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both."
Benjamin Franklin
Pingeroo!
Wrong quote. Why do you guys keep persisting in using the “modified” version.
If those become a part of standard practice, I would never fly with children. This may be the final straw. I would certainly hope so.
How do you know which person to shock? Are passengers going to be required to wear a great big numbers?
This would be pure nonsense if the government hadn’t already turned airport terminals and aircraft into little Eastern Block style oasises from the 1960s.
I’m just shocked we haven’t seen the barbed wire yet.
It would be a very boring flight. Angelique Pettyjohn, the actress who played Shana passed away on 14 February 1992, of cancer. If she was alive, she'd be 65 years old.
Air travel was nice for a few years but those memories are fading fast.
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