New! Long-Range 12 Gauge Taser! Think this will be abused?

Danke said:
Aviation Security

By P. Jeffrey Black and Jeffrey Denning

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, Inc. website, the bracelet would be worn by all airline passengers (video also shown below).

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

The Electronic ID Bracelet, as it’s referred to, would be worn by every traveler “until they disembark the flight at their destination.” Yes, you read that correctly. Every airline passenger would be tracked by a government-funded GPS, containing personal, private and confidential information, and would shock the customer worse than an electronic dog collar if the passenger got out of line.

Clearly the Electronic ID Bracelet is a euphemism for the EMD Safety Bracelet, or at least it has a nefarious hidden ability (thus the term ID Bracelet is ambiguous at best). EMD stands for Electro-Musclar Disruption. Again, according to the promotional video, the bracelet can completely immobilize the wearer for several minutes.

So is the government really that interested in this bracelet?

Apparently so.

According to this letter from DHS official, Paul S. Ruwaldt of the Science and Technology Directorate, office of Research and Development, which was written to the inventor whom he had previously met with, Ruwaldt wrote, “To make it clear, we [the federal government] are interested in . . . the immobilizing security bracelet, and look forward to receiving a written proposal.”

The letterhead, in case you were wondering, is from a U.S. Department of Homeland Security office at the William J. Hughes Technical Center at the Atlantic City International Airport, or the Federal Aviation Administration headquarters.

In another part of the letter, Mr. Ruwaldt confirmed, “In addition, it is conceivable to envision a use to improve air security, on passenger planes.”

Would every paying airline passenger flying on a commercial airplane be mandated to wear one of these devices? I cringe at the thought. 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.

Would you let them put one of those on your wrist? Would you allow the airline employees, which would be mandated by the government, to place such a bracelet on any member of your family?

Why are tax dollars being spent on something like this?

Is this a police state or is this America?

http://www.washingtontimes.com/webl...01/want-some-torture-with-your-peanuts/#again
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Dadnabit, someone always beats me to the patent:(
 
Expatriate said:
They already have that. It's the Taser Claymore or "taze-more" for taking down crowds. You can attach as many of them together as you need for a huge crowd. I notice it says "this way to enemy" on it too. Is that what protesters are now? The enemy?

Promo video:
http://www.taser.com/Pages/VideoDetails.aspx?videoid=60

PoliceOne TV interview:
http://www.policeone.com/policeonetv/videos/1732218-taser-shockwave/
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Dadnabit, a day late and dollar short again.:(

Seriously, these posts are scarin' me.
 
Along the same vein as the shock bracelets, a lot of prisons in the US now use something called an "electroshock belt" on their captives. It's a remote controlled 50,000 volt taser in a belt that can't be removed and can be triggered at any time by the guards to incapacitate unruly prisoners, or as punishment or a source of amusement when things get boring.

http://www.amnesty.org.ru/library/Index/ENGAMR510451996?open&of=ENG-360
http://www.securityprousa.com/prstbeshbeco.html

In California and Florida they're also using them on defendants in courtrooms! :eek:
http://www.ljr.net/latimes/stun/
http://www.cnn.com/US/9807/10/stun.belts/index.html
http://www.motherjones.com/news/outfront/2000/03/outfrontma00.html
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Expatriate said:
Along the same vein as the shock bracelets, a lot of prisons in the US now use something called an "electroshock belt" on their captives. It's a remote controlled 50,000 volt taser in a belt that can't be removed and can be triggered at any time by the guards as punishment, or probably just for amusement.

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Yeah, I already got of one those for my gf.
 
pcosmar said:
I don't think it, I KNOW it.
When you hand a torture device to people that are proven to be abusive, you have to expect that it will be abused.
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Good, at least some people are thinking!

When I saw those videos I thought how calm and self delusional those people are. Torture freaks. Basically semi-lethal sociopathic Ted Bundy clones.

I feel just sick even knowing that people like this exist.

Gross!
 
just mentioned this to a friend on the phone. i could tell he didnt believe me. people are gonna lose everything before they realize they had something to lose.

this weapon is just going to far. i can see using it in a hostage situation like a bank robbery, but you know good and well it wont be.

seems to me that the government is very afraid of its citizens. now would be the time to fight them if eveyone would join together, but that will never happen.

same friend i told about the fat tax they are trying to pass up north in ny on soda. funny that he called to tell me he just saw the report on GMA and thought i was really loosing it when i first told him. but yet he acts weird when i mention this. i dont get it with most people.
 
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