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washingtontimes.com — 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.
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- iHippie, on 07/06/2008, -0/+28Trains seem cooler all the time.
- JohnDBandit, on 07/06/2008, -0/+26 Unbelievable, but the sad part is there are people that would gladly volunteer to wear the thing. But not me!
- wanderlander, on 07/07/2008, -2/+3I might wear it - in the bedroom
- Rikety, on 07/07/2008, -0/+21Screw these a$$hole government officials. What they want is to be able to control all citizens, any time at all. If people don't squawk about this, they'll have people wear something like this All The Time.
Hello 1984, revisited. - RedCt, on 07/07/2008, -0/+19Hmm. Remote control via radio. Incapacitating a whole cabin full of people. People writhing on the floor at 30,000 feet. If someone could reverse engineer the "shocking" device and find out how to send the signal... think how useful that would be to a terrorist who want to incapacitate the whole cabin.
What could possibly go wrong? - Keyhole, on 07/07/2008, -0/+19Oh GREAT, now they want to be able to shock you at will on airplanes!
What is wrong with these people, are these people power or control freaks or just sadists?
Now they want to attach a bracelet on every airline passenger JUST IN CASE you do something they may deem "suspicious" on a plane. This is NUTS.
I can just see this thing malfunctioning and zapping people for no reason, or even causing heart attacks or killing people!
Are we that scared that we feel this is necessary?
I sure hope not!
I'm not! - 2bsbc, on 07/08/2008, -0/+17Shockingly fashionable, every brain dead consumer will want one.
Soon there will be an 800 number you can call when you're having thoughts of civil disobedience. Like when you think your getting ass raped by big oil, and their connection to the president.
Just dial in, punch up your access code, record your offense (speak loudly and in a clear manner, slave). 15 seconds later you get a nice re-education sponsored shock. - alapoet, on 07/08/2008, -0/+14Imagine the applications!
"Oh... so you're disagreeing with authority?" BZZZZZT!
"Oh... so you don't like the Administration?" BZZZZZZZZZT!
"Oh... so you don't watch Fox News?" BZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZT!!! - girwen, on 07/08/2008, -0/+8If I can't walk or bike it it's too far
- Fangsinmybeard, on 07/08/2008, -0/+10So, a new way to cow the masses into being better sheep. What is next, mandatory suicide booths... I mean execution booths?
- FrankHope, on 07/08/2008, -0/+13Honestly this is a case of the cure being worse than the disease. I would rather have a few planes, over the course of years, be hijacked by terrorists, than have every passenger on every plane be hijacked by the government. We can't let fear run our lives. People are so obsessed with being "safe" that they are willing to sacrifice their freedoms.
July 4, 1776 was the signing of the Declaration of Independence. The Patriot Act was a Declaration of Dependence on a totalitarian government. - MarkEarhart, on 07/08/2008, -0/+10The only way such a thing should even be considered would be if every law enforcement officer were required to have genital piercings that serve as stun devices as well in order for the people to combat police brutality.
- Hangly, on 07/08/2008, -0/+7Why not a shock collar?
- tehhowch, on 07/08/2008, -1/+1Here's the link straight to the letter
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Page 2: http://www.lamperdlesslethal.com/news/upload/pg2Ho ... - sk11, on 07/08/2008, -0/+3Flight attendant: you'll be pleased to know that extra security measures have been set in place to enhance and energise passenger safety...
passenger: (I'll just sit down and relax right here. Got some time to kill so I guess I'll fire up digg.)
on board nsa log: >seat c2 internet active. Tracing......
passenger: (Hmm, an article about sending Bush to prison for war crimes and advocating torture. Dugg.)
on board nsa log: > anti-patriotic action detected. Executing Cheney protocol.....
passenger: ***** OW!! *****! What the *****, hell was that?
hostess: sir, are you ok?
passenger: I don't know, I think, I think this bracelet thing shocked me!
hostess: sir, that's a security device, ok sir.
passenger: security? It ***** electrocuted me, all I was doing was surfing the web, just looking at digg
hostess: sir I suggest you refrain from viewing islamic extremist material whilst on board this flight.
passenger: what? It's just digg, you know blogs, digg, like reddit, delicious, stumbleupon
hostess: sir I don't speak any Arabic, could you please sit down and restrain yourself
passenger: no, I want this thing off me, right now!
hostess: sir, please refrain from removing security devices, ok sir.
on board nsa log: > seat c2 resistance detected. Activating WSD...
passenger: OWWWWWW! ***** *****!! Dammit!!
hostess: sir, please refrain from energising the security restraint wrist strap device.
passenger: oh god, I just wanted to surf digg, oh god, oh jesus
hostess: sir, might I suggest foxnews.com instead? - joeyjj, on 07/08/2008, -0/+2Because a terrorist, so dedicated to his cause that he's willing to end his life to make a political point and take as many innocent lives as possible with him, would be unable and unwilling to cut off his taser-bracelet. Good work DHS.
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