Sorry, but I would never fly again.

WTF? As the article says, Is this a police state or is this America?

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. . . .

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 euphuism 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.

This isn't the answer. Requiring all passengers to be armed is the answer. I'd fly happily with a 9mm loaded with some kind of fragmenting load that wouldn't pierce the side of the plane.

(My wife on the other hand wouldn't be able to fly under such a regime.)

Of course, another answer is to stop being so God-damned sensitively multi-culti, and start profiling passengers like we should have done on 9/12. The Israelis know how to do this, why don't we?

Via Insty.

Note: Some of the comments are fairly amusing. The thing that keeps coming to mind, though, is that while the 9/11 terrorists managed to take three planes to their destinations, they didn't manage it with the fourth plane...because American citizen-heroes were able to disrupt their plans. Within something like 100 minutes, the passengers of Flight 93 ensured that organized Islamic terrorists would never again try to hijack a US airliner. But for our part, we don't seem to have understood that lesson.