Because thats the plan apparently being considered by the Gestapo, oh, I mean Homeland Security. An RFP has apparently been drawn up and issued to Lampered Less Lethal, a Canadian firm specializing apparently in non-lethal torture devices.Lampered Less Lethal.
Oh how far we have fallen under this administration. Now, apparently we should be expected as paying customers to wear a stun bracelet whenever we fly. If the cabin crew sees something unusual, maybe a Koran in your hand, zap. You are electrocuted and stunned for several minutes. Assuming the cabin crew assumes a hijacking, the whole cabin most likely would be stunned at once.
"By further equipping the bracelet with EMD technology, the bracelets will allow crew members, using radio frequency transmitters, to quickly and effective subdue hijackers," the video explains. "The electro-muscular disruption signal overrides the attacker's central nervous system and will render even the most elite and aggressive terrorist completely immobile for several minutes."
As reported by The Washington Times, Lamperd's Web site hosts a copy of a letter from Paul S. Ruwaldt, an official with the Department of Homeland Security's Science and Technology Directorate, expressing interest in the bracelet.
In discussions with my colleagues and immediate superior, we find your ideas have merit and believe it would be of great help on the borders, and indeed for anywhere else, for which the temporarily [sic] restraint of large numbers of individuals in open area environments by a small number of agents or Law Enforcement Officers (LEOs)," the letter says, citing a meeting on July 18, 2006. "We see the potential uses to include prisoner transportation, detainee control, and military security forces might have some interest. In addition, it is conceivable to envision a use to improve air security, on passenger planes."
Seriously, this administration is crossing every line. This is insane. God knows what another four years of Republican policy would do to this country, Hermann Goering would be proud.
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