Want some torture with your peanuts?
Found on Washington Times on Monday, 07 July 2008
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®.
Every airline passenger would be tracked by a government-funded GPS, containing personal, private and confidential information, and that it would shock the customer worse than an electronic dog collar if he/she got out of line?
Not only could it be used as a physical restraining device, but also as a method of interrogation, according to the same aforementioned letter from Mr. Ruwaldt.
Why are tax dollars being spent on something like this? Is this a police state or is it America?
I can already see it coming: you can pick between a bracelet or a dog collar while you're directed to your seats with cattle prods. Make a funny move and someone will flip the switch for your shocking device. In the end, more will die by those "non-lethal" inventions than by terroristic attacks. I bet Bin Laden is laughing: who would have thought that one single attack would make a whole nation extremely paranoid; up to a level where the torture of the citizens is wanted. Oh, and want to disable the bracelet? Bring along a plastic bookmark in a magazine and slip it under the taserband around your wrist before you attack the stewardess. Plastic is insulating, you know?.