Posted on 07/09/2008 7:12:30 AM PDT by Oyarsa
The Department of Homeland Security has solicited a proposal from a Canadian security company to develop a stun bracelet.
In order to enhance the security of air travel and to help manage illegal immigration, the Department of Homeland Security has solicited a proposal from a Canadian security company to develop a passenger stun bracelet.
(Excerpt) Read more at informationweek.com ...
This is crap and it stinkith with a mighty stink.
And homeland security has outlived its usefulness.
What if a perp get his hands on a control device for these bracelets?...
Idiots.
What a crock of an article. The ‘proof’ they cite is a letter that is written concerning prisioner transportation. This article is extremely misleading if not outright lying.
Horse spit.
That aside, anyone who can hack the signal protocol can themselves immobilize large numbers of people who were collared.
HSD would have to first catch the illegals to get them to wear the bracelet.
Then the Courts would nullify those (leading to additional civil rights lawsuits and settlement payments to the illegals) unless each illegal was given a trial with his/her own attorney — at taxpayer expense.
[Whoever came up with that idea needs to consider retirement.]
The proposed use isn't for passengers, it is for transportating prisioners. The article is a crock. Read the 'letter' they cite in the article.
-PJ
Just saw a news report this morning that said the airlines are losing huge amounts of money because people are tired of crappy service and being molested by TSA goons every time they try to get on a plane. This would bankrupt every airline.
How about these for elected representatives and the judiciary?
When we fly the illegal enemy combatants out of GITMO we can use these bracelets to help keep them under control.
Finally! They are doing something about illegal aliens.
Just wait until those Mexicans try to fly into the U.S.! Our homeland security experts will be there to check immigration status mid-flight and shock them into submission if they don’t pass muster.
That makes sense. I can see where in light of the recent attack on an immigration bus, that such a device for "prisoners" could be useful.
“The Price of Freedom is Eternal Vigilance.”
—attributed to Thomas Jefferson
Personally, I would rather American citizens be alert to a possible danger to their liberty than unaware of it until it is implemented at all.
“In order to enhance the security of air travel and to help manage illegal immigration,...”
These morons led by Chertoff will use illegal immigration as an excuse for considering any measure that can curtail the rights of citizens and legal immigrants. Want to control the criminal invasion? Build the wall first and mine it on both sides.
Yeah, this will gain lots of new passengers...
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