Want Some Torture With Your Peanuts? (Airline travel ID bracelet)

Washington Times aviation security blog ^ | July 1, 2008 | P. Jeffrey Black and Jeffrey Denning

[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/

[Fizzie]

The fact that an official at the Department of Homeland Security expressed interest in a proposal is frightening.

[Cyber Liberty]

I didn’t have a huge problem with it until I got to the taser part.

[conservativehusker]

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????

[JoanneSD]

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....

[John123]

shock the wearer on command, completely immobilizing him/her for several minutes

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?

[untenured]

Not if "frightening" has any connotation of "unexpected." He's a security bureaucrat. Environmental bureaucrats want to subvert liberty to enhance their power and secondarily to protect the environment, economic bureaucrats want to subvert liberty to enhance their power and secondarily for the sake of the economy, security bureaucrats want to subvert liberty for the sake of their power and secondarily to enhance security.

This is how it is going to be for the foreseeable future.

[DoughtyOne]

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.

[mysterio]

I didn’t have a huge problem with it until I got to the taser part.

Hey, if you're not doing anything wrong, what are you worried about? That's what I hear, anyway.

[Steely Tom]

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.

[Steely Tom]

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.

[Domandred]

Deadlock collars coming soon?

[M203M4]

If you don't endorse this, it means you want the Terrists to win!

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?

[econjack]

And of course all electro-mechanical devices are 100% fail proof. So what if a person happens to be a heart patient with an artificial heart and some nefarious electron triggers the device. Surely a few complementary tickets to the next of kin will set things straight, right?

[gridlock]

If I can have Shana as my Drill Thrall Flight Attendant, I'm all for it!

[Winged Hussar]

All this will do is destroy our country’s airlines by discouraging even more people from using them.

[southlake_hoosier]

Bye bye, airlines.

They are doing a good job on their own with any help.

[PeterFinn]

The DHS apparently wants to give us a just cause for a revolution.

[KarlInOhio]

• shock the wearer on command, completely immobilizing him/her for several minutes

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.

[El Gato]

Want Some Torture With Your Peanuts?

What peanuts? ;)

[Scythian]

I bet 200 quatloo that this bracelet never makes it into production ....