The future of air travel? Do you see the potential problem?

As a result of the underwear bomber's attempt to murder a couple of hundred people, new restrictions have been implemented on many flights, these include the turning off of the inflight map & closing the plane blinds for the last hour of the flight and the banning of using the toilets, accessing the overhead lockers or even having anything on your lap for the same period of the flight. So once again the 99.999% of law abiding, civilised travllers are being penalised because of the actions (or potential actions) of Jihadis.

I have heard people suggest that as well as body scanners in airports that all passengers may have to fly in paper jumpsuits and that hand luggage will be banned completely. I would not be too quick to laugh at these ideas, our governments like having total control over the general population and they just might see if they could implement such controls. The scariest suggestion I have seen is this from The Washington Times, apparently:

"The Department of Homeland Security two years ago considered the use of "safety bracelets" that can deliver a debilitating shock similar to that of a Taser for controlling prisoners during transport.

The inventor of the magnetically secured wristbands — Per Hahne of Toronto — has proposed that his electro-muscular disruption (EMD) devices be fitted on all airline passengers as a safeguard against terrorist attacks."

That should make a flight relaxing, having to wear a Taser type bracelet. So whocontrols the bracelets and where from? What if an 'evil doer' managed to gain control of the Taser bracelet control panel, they could kill everyone on board in under a minute. Might a disgruntled air-steward be able to take revenge in this way?

The answer to Islamic Jihadi terrorism is intelligence lead action, such as suggested suggested yesterday, not inconveniencing any further the good passengers. Somehow I think that the powers-that-be would rather the totalitarian approach though.