Perhaps the webmaster at Lamperd Less Lethal needs an electric shock.
The Sarnia, Ont.., based defense company told the Washington Times last week that it had removed from its Web site a letter from a Department of Homeland Security official who the department claimed was receiving death threats.
The 2006 letter, from Paul S. Ruwaldt of the DHS Science and Technology Directorate, requested information on a “Security Bracelet” which could be used for “restraint of large numbers of individuals” in “prisoner transportation, detainee control and . . . it is conceivable to envision a use to improve air security, on passenger planes.”
The letter, accompanying a video on the company’s web site which shows a theoretical use in which every airline passenger would be forced to wear a bracelet capable of delivering a powerful electric shock, received national attention a month ago after being posted on a Washington Times blog.
Many on both sides of the political fence who heard of the story were outraged at the idea of strapping an electric shock device to airline passengers. The company’s EMD Security Bracelet is capable of storing personal information about a passenger, matching each passenger to his or her luggage, tracking passengers as they move through an airport or other large area, and delivering an electro-muscular disruption to individual bracelets on command. The electric shock, more powerful than a standard Taser, is capable of immobilizing a person for several minutes.
Although DHS spokesman John Verrico said that the department was not considering using the bracelet for airline passengers, the attention resulted in Ruwaldt receiving threatening phone calls at home, and the company receiving hate mail, according to Lamperd Less Lethal CEO Barry Lamperd.
“We decided we certainly didn’t want him to get more threats, so we took [the letter] off,” Lamperd told the Times.
Yet the letter remains on the company’s Web site as of this afternoon. It appears the company removed some links to the letter, but not the letter itself. (See for yourself: Page 1, Page 2) Despite being notified a week ago that the letter was still online, the company has not actually removed the letter and it remains available for download.
Removing the links which point to a document on the Internet doesn’t actually remove the document; it can still be accessed by anyone who knows the Web address or through any links from third-party sites and search engines. Biofilm, Inc., manufacturer of Astroglide personal lubrication products, learned this lesson the hard way last year when it leaked 260,000 customer records by publishing the records on its Web site and then blaming the search engines for doing what they naturally do.
No word on whether the bracelet will be used for the other suggested purposes of detaining illegal immigrants and transporting prisoners.
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Shawn-Earnest
Aug 10, 2008
Oh’ yeah… what next?
GlenGary
Aug 10, 2008
Since The Patriot Act the United States has been sliding down the slope toward a totalitarian system and we best never relinquish our guns or our will to resist.
Shawn-Earnest
Aug 10, 2008
Giving up my Guns all depends on who is winning the purification war, and that depends if it is the government or the civilians. Civilians are primitive without order in the first place; regardless perspectives. To add having no federal policing and if that they had organize durring these changes it would all end up being acts of terrorism and terrorist cells anyways. I just pray to GOD that Federal Martial Law is 101% established, all children from ages of 13-18, or better yet 6-18 are removed from parents and placed in federal relearning institutions under the DOD to cleanse their minds from that primitive mythological anti-humanitarian religious life styles, and countless anti-social sexual phobias. This mass collective, schizo-effective disorder that has infected the American population nust be cleansed. Science is the Messiah, and Federal Martial Law is GOD until you are ordered otherwise people. Either you are with us or against us. If you are with us then you are an American. If you are against us then you are a terrorist. Obey and be cleansed. or be cleansed. Obey!
GlenGary
Aug 10, 2008
You my friend is the first type of person that will get to chew on a bullet.
Freedom is NOT re-education. Freedom is not about Police States and certainly not about martial law.
The colonists that fought for our freedoms were Patriots but known to the Crown as TERRORISTS…so be it! If that is what you sick bastards call a patriot…so be it!
I rather think you are a died in wool NAZI and those types were shot and hung and will be again.
Shawn-Earnest
Aug 11, 2008
Your opinion has been noted. Understands that life is not only your perspective on reality. To prepare for change that it is always a greater value to be in fact knowing what has been planed for society rather then to assume. Perhaps you should be thankful that others share what is needed to be known rather then to suggestively threaten others. Just be aware what is planned in case the hammer is brought down upon all of us.
GlenGary
Aug 11, 2008
What is planned can be changed by the very people the changers are counting on to do the deed. Not many in this country are happy with what is planned and as the days wear on more and more become awake and angry.
One has to…if they know human nature, fear the people who have nothing left to lose more so than the people who have all to lose. The former being far more dangerous for he has no reason to stop.
We are about to go to war in the coming weeks and it won’t be pretty for America as Russian Bombers have been endlessly circling America’s entire for quite some time and unlike Iraq, they can fight and will fight. We are inviting this and we are inviting China to the fight as well.
We are about to have the real thing RIGHT HERE instead of over there or over yonder. This is what you get when Mad Men run governments…the ideals YOU support. Big Government.
We are a nation of Laws and of Treaties and of a Constitution and we have violated every stitch of it to create mayhem in the world and rob our citizens of their incomes through currency manipulation and excessive taxation and horrendous trade agreements. Frauds upon the people.
Many Citizens agree with Thomas Jefferson when he said, “The strongest reason for people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government”, and with George Washington who said, “Firearms stand next in importance to the Constitution itself. They are the American people’s liberty teeth and keystone under independence”.
This morning I woke up to automatic weapons fire coming from the hills and it has become not only weekends, but weekdays too. Men are practicing more and more everywhere and the Patriot Movement is growing fast and steadily.
That is my reality and the reality of many of my countrymen today. It comes down to fight for what you want or give it up and I dare say I am bone tired of watching all liberty thrown away that our soldiers have fought to protect for 132 years or more.
If it comes to a fight folks better be ready because no one will wait for you to play catch up. You will simply be a refugee or a statistic.
Ray
Aug 11, 2008
GlenGar:
The part about our founding fathers being terrorists is a little to close to the truth. While they certainly didn’t blow themselves up in crowded markets, they did engage in a quite a few tactics which would today be called terrorism. Maybe we need to look a little more closely at what is a terrorist, and is a terrorist action. I will try at the risk of probably making some people pretty darned mad here. Now lets start at the outset and say that I am discussing what I consider legal and illegal tactics, and not what I consider to be good guys and bad guys. Those are separate subjects.
First is targeting civilians is terrorist in nature. If the people targeted are in the military they are a fair target. Government workers are to some extent a gray area. That same gray area applies to government contractors. The more connected to the military they are the more they are a legitimate and legal target. The more that someone is in the leadership the more they are a legitimate target. I know this will make some enemies and boy do I expect to be flamed here, and I want it to be clear that I am not advocating this, but frankly trying to kill the president by legitimate means is in and of itself a legitimate military activity. The is the commander and chief of the military so he is a legitimate target. So are his top military officials.
In a war people are going to die, and not all of them are going to be the people who were intended to die. IE: there will be collateral damage. One key point is if one attempted to reduce/eliminate such damage. This is where I see the issue with the 9/11 attack on the Pentagon. Now the twin towers were to far removed from legitimate nature, and to much collateral damage to call them a legit target, but the Pentagon is a legit military target. The fact that there would be a small number of civilian, “collateral damage” from such an attack doesn’t stop an attack that damaged/destroyed all or a part of the Pentagon a legit military tactic. Now taking an airliner full of people to the attack that is a war crime. Had the attackers used an empty airliner or a cargo plane they would not have committed a war crime. An attack on the White House would be the same. The capital is more of a gray area.
In much the same way our military should be required to, and appears to be required to attempt to reduce civilian casualties. Those people who attack our military convoys are the enemy and I wish to stop them, and hope they die without being successful, but they are not terrorists. Those people who attack police stations are in a gray area. Those who attack markets, and especially those who attack voters are terrorists.
Also the use of civilians for cover has to do with terrorists or not a terrorist distinctions. To some extent using civilians as camouflage and blending in cover is a legitimate tactic. Using them as a shield is not. The distinction to some extent if you are trying to arrange it so that any attempt to engage you militarily would produce “collateral damage”. This is one of the reasons that the Palestinians are terrorists. (they also attack a lot of random civilian targets.)
Another issue in terrorist vs nonterrorist has to do with your treatment of those who disagree with you. If civilians in your base area refuse to support your cause there are some things you are according to custom are allowed to do. Certainly throughout history you have been permitted to detain them to insure they don’t help your enemies. Our founding fathers in some cases seemed to think that embarrassing the heck out of them was also legit. Killing civilians for not supporting you is a terrorist activity. Another reason that the current situation in Palestine involved terrorists. we talk about the Jewish casualties, but more of the radicals in Gaza’s victims are their own people who refuse to support them or speak out against them.
If we started looking at some of these as the definition of terrorism, we would have fewer terrorist to deal with. This would allow us to deal with the real terrorists more effectively. This would make our nation more secure.
GlenGary
Aug 11, 2008
When we talk about the DHS we want to put bracelets on airline passengers-force and strip search, create lists, ban certain fliers in essence war against or at least police state tactics against civilians WHILE leaving our borders like swiss cheese whereby millions of illegals come strolling in, who is to say how many cells of terrorists among those massive numbers?
Add tapping phones, reading mail, suspension of Habeas Corpus, search and seizure without warrant. Our Constitutional Rights gone which to any thinking person comes down to acts of war against civilians by a sitting government. If the Russians or Chinese had walked into America and done this folks would be screaming bloody murder.
Now we have the stage being set as of this minute for another illegal war with the largest armada assembled in years heading for Iran. I’m sure the American people want another illegal war and oil prices North of $200 in the near future.
We have been taken over by a criminal cabal. Is this not terrorism toward sovereign countries? Overt acts of war without declaring war first just like the Japanese at Pearl Harbor. How are we different?
For the people and by the people… then we have media blackouts on looming attacks, planted news stories, arrest tactics without proof of guilt, lies to go to war, torture of prisoners by simply decreeing them terrorists-less than human.
Then folks question the patriotism of those of us who support our Constitution, Treaties, Conventions..the Law of the land. That which millions of our citizens have died for.
Who is the terrorist I ask if it comes to civil unrest in China? We will root for the people.
Who is the terrorist if the United States erupts in civil unrest over the same type issues? The people I’m betting since most Americans would not know liberty if it sat right on their lap!
A legitimate government can make a legitimate claim of terrorism. Do we have in essence a legitimate government?
I say NO and so do millions of other Americans and even other countries speak of us as a fascist state no longer a Republic.
I do not fear the terrorists of Islam half as much as the treasonous criminals in our government.Like it or not, this is becoming the new issue for middle America..theft by deception of our basic rights of life, liberty and pursuit of happiness. We’ve been sold out.
Bob
Aug 11, 2008
What a mess.
Do what you feel is right and stand for what you believe in. History will give you a name depending on whether you win or lose the fight.
There are only two sides, good and evil. Most people are a little of both, that’s why it’s all so ugly. It never was pretty but we used to be a little better than most.
The closer it gets, the more I dread the fight. It’s going to be tough making judgements on people and doing what you have to do to survive. I’m not perfect, but I guess like Clint says in Unforgiven, “deserve’s got nothing to do with it”.
Hey Glen, we have a fan on that topic from a few weeks ago. She’s worth saying hi to.
GlenGary
Aug 11, 2008
“Hey Glen, we have a fan on that topic from a few weeks ago. She’s worth saying hi to.”
Whom?
Bob
Aug 11, 2008
Hey Glen. July 8th topic about why we are going to collapse.
Another alive and struggling individual calling out from the wasteland of humanity. Or something like that. I’d let her through the perimeter if she came to my camp.
Bob
Aug 13, 2008
Boooga! Booooga! Where do you disappear to Mr. Glen? You type all over the place on three different topics and then you’re gone. Just gone. It’s so weird man.
GlenGary
Aug 13, 2008
Sorry, I got kidnapped and waterboarded by Homeland Security for talking shit on here again. They let me go when they figured out I liked it.
All delusions aside, in the summer I do weird things I call hobbies and dick around outside. I’ll check in daily though.
Glen
Dalebert
Aug 15, 2008
Some of you guys need to start your own blogs. This section is for comments; not entire articles. Sheesh.
Thanx for this info, Michael. You do great work!
Bob
Aug 15, 2008
Dalebert. I don’t know how to start my own blog, (he kicks the dirt with his toe) but yeah, maybe I should think about it, I could probably figure it out. I could call it Bobsblog and have a picture of Sylvester the cat on the page so people would get the pronunciation right.
I would miss these guys though.
susan28
Aug 16, 2008
“Do we have in essence a legitimate government?”
NO!!
Hey Bob, Gary, Michael.. sorry for being such a stranger, glad to see y’all are still alive and kickin’..
This American
Aug 18, 2008
Remember part of the Elitist Globalist Agenda is to actually get people to fly LESS, use less, etc. etc. (Agenda 21)?
It seems unlikely that the airlines don’t realize they are driving away many customers who won’t tolerate Gestapo like interogations and body searches. The War on/OF terror is such a fraud and is now being used as the excuse for Fascist elements to use as a fig leaf to hide behind while they increase their totalitarian control. Any day now expect ‘terrorists’ to come out of the woodwork to aid the fascists in revamping their PHONEY terror war as citizens have such short memories. Remember, if you need them (terrorists)…they will come.
miche
Aug 19, 2008
I have a pretty interesting video regarding the bracelet over here.
Archetype
Sep 27, 2008
My entire life (I’m now in my late 40′s) I’ve believed that one day as an old person I would be a successful part of covert operations riding my bike from place to place undetected. Does that sound crazy? Not anymore. Sounds like it’s about time to get-r-done. Not giving up my guns, my freedom or my bike! and I’m certainly not putting on a torcher device just to ride a plane.