California gang members to be tracked by GPS

Reuters ^ | 3/16/06 | Reuters

[wagglebee]

What they really need is something to stop them dead in their tracks if they want to, like a shock collar only a lot stronger.

[Decepticon]

Perfect. It allows government to increase in size and cost and doesn't do diddly to stop crime......"whacking people is still alright, as long as we know where you're at...."

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

I don't know about using a GPS.

How about an RPG?

[Publius]

Chips under the skin -- Digital Angels -- are next.

[AbeKrieger]

What we need now is cruise missiles that can be trained onto those collars. Really powerful ones that can wipe out everything within 100 yards of the criminal.

[calcowgirl]

Ping! ;-)

[BenLurkin]

I'd prefer that they be trucked out to a deep abandoned mine shaft and dumped in.


BTW, I doubt the folks in San Bernardino care to have their city decribed as a suburb OR as "gritty". It is certainly no garden spot but the writer sure has an unduly snobby contempt for the 'Inland Empire'.

[Neanderthal]

"What they really need is something to stop them dead in their tracks if they want to, like a shock collar only a lot stronger."

There was an Arnold S. movie that featured explodable radio-controlled metal collars that were permanaently locked round the prisoner's necks. If a prisoner crossed the prison's fence line the collar would explode.

I can't remember the name of the movie, but somehow the collar didn't stop Arnold from escaping from prison.

[Hawk1976]

And notice it's all for our "safety". How much longer, Claire?

[philetus]

The collars that decapitate them if they cross a boundry,ala Arnold.

[Amerigomag]

Nice try but I won't touch it. :)

I'd like to, but I won't.

The Minister of Information woulds stick 5 more pins in the Amerigomag doll and the doodlebug would ping the management for a review of the reply under the guise of guidance.

[NormsRevenge]

may as well track the democrat state legislators too i f we're gonna start tracking gang members., I like the shock collar idea, btw. ;-)

[George - the Other]

"What they really need is something to stop them dead in their tracks if they want to, like a shock collar only a lot stronger."

The original Star Trek had an episode, "The Gamesters of Triskelion," where Kirk, Chekoff, and Uhura were captured, had "Collars of Obediance" placed around there necks, and were being trained as "Thralls."

-George, the other

[Battle Hymn of the Republic]

who knows how long but the framework is already there. I thank the Lord more than anything in my life that I am saved and will not be on earth when this happens:

Revelation 13:

16 And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:

17 and that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.

[calcowgirl]

Nice try but I won't touch it. :)

Awww... you're no fun! LOL.

[Calpernia]

Total Recall

[Calpernia]

WOW! You just enduced a major flash back on me!

[FoxInSocks]

There was also the movie with Rutger Hauer, Wedlock, where if two inmates got too far from each other, their collars would explode.

I think an extra twist was they didn't know who in the prison population had the matching collar.

[quietolong]

Wow Just think. Now you can commit crime and prove you were not there!
Remember what Scotty had to say.
The more complicated the plumbing, the easier it is to stop up the pipes.

[freepatriot32]

I dont like this even a little bit just like the patriot act it will not stop here it will expand and needs to be stopped

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