You make plane reservations for $1000, you get to the airport & DHS puts a Stun-gun bracelet on your wrist..?

This can be considered a violation of the 4th and 14th amendment. And if they do try to put them on every passenger, I hope that the ACLU fights it.

I have heard about the bracelet, and was impressed with it's ability to stop a person. Having been on prisoner escorts, that's taking a fugitive from one state to another via a commuter plane, I look forward to using it. In the past I have had to put handcuffs on the prisoner and stand out in the crowd. This bracelet would be a lot more inconspicuous and stop the person without a foot chase through a crowded airport, or the fugitive trying to take a passenger hostage.

If you've read any of Jeffrey White's other articles he tends to be very anti-airline, anti-government, etc. so please keep that in mind when reading this article.

After reading this response from the company that designed the bracelet, I actually wouldn't mind the bracelet at all.

Quoted from source:

"The bracelets remain inactive until a hijacking situation has been identified. At such time a designated crew member will activate the bracelets making them capable of delivering the punitive measure - but only to those that need to be restrained. We believe that all passengers will welcome deliverance from a hijacking, as will the families, carriers, insurance providers etc. The F-16 on the wing-tip is not to reassure the passengers during a hijacking, but rather to shoot them down. Besides activation using the grid screen, the steward / stewardess will have a laser activator that can activate any bracelet as needed by simply pointing the laser at the bracelet - that laser dot only needs to be within 10 inches of the bracelet to activate it."

As clearly stated there, the bracelets are inactive until a hijacking situation has been identified. So for all the anti-government, paranoid super-liberals out there screaming about accidental activation: You can stop now. I know loads of people will be protesting because "big brother" is monitoring them on the plane through these bracelets but the fact of the matter is: If you're not doing anything wrong, what's the big deal?

Personally if I'm on a plane I'd feel a lot safer knowing that in the case of a terrorist threat, there is a security measure in place to take the terrorist down other than an F-16 shooting the plane down. The fact that the bracelet is able to monitor the whereabouts of both you and your luggage after check-in is just a fringe benefit to me. One less boarding pass to get lost and less of a chance of my luggage going missing.

When you get right down to it flying is a choice... the bracelets maybe going to a little bit of an extreme I myself would have no problem with wearing one but I can tell you if they tried to strap one on my 8 year old it would be unacceptable. I would drive her before that happened. To get a little more technical would it be something that is unable to be tampered with? Could a terroists get it off or even find a way of dismantling it, and if so what good are they going to be?

I'd demand my $1000 back and drive!

And if everyone did that when it first came out, it would take about a week for them to stop doing it.

Fact is that sheeple will be okay with it and it will continue on.

I've read about this and there is a big difference between considering it and actually doing it. I doubt something like this would "fly" so to speak but if it did then it's going to be a personal choice. To fly or not to fly.

Personally I wouldn't fly anymore. If anyone who has ever been hit with a tazer..........I don't think they would either cause that crud HURTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

That is a blog, it is not a reputable news source. All it states for certain is that a private company has invented a bracelet, there is nothing confirming it is actually being considered.

I think I'd be immersing it when I wash my hands - unbelievable state of paranioa when you treat everyone like a would be criminal... especially when the REAL criminals are in the seat of power!

It's a bunch of BS!

I think I owuld choose to drive....I have no desire to be in a place that I can be controlled like that.