"Mandra" <Signater@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in
news:Re%Ci.7830$tB2.6096@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> At the Air****t, You Better Smile
> 'Behavior Detection Officers' are now watching passengers' facial
> expressions for signs of danger
>
> by Patti Davis
>
> Global Research,
> August 18, 2007
> Newsweek, Web Edition
> www.globalresearch.ca/
>
> It's a new level of absurdity for America.
>
> It was bound to happen. Now even a frown or grimace can get you into
> trouble with The Man.
>
> "Specially trained security personnel" will be watching passengers for
> "micro-expressions" that will reveal treacherous agendas and insidious
> intentions at air****ts around the country. These agents, who may
> literally hold your fate in their hands have been given a lofty,
> Orwellian name: "Behavior Detection Officers."
>
> Did anyone ever doubt that George Orwell's prophecies in "1984" would
>
> arrive? In that novel, he wrote, "You had to live-did live, from habit
> that became instinct-in the assumption that every sound you made was
> overheard and, except in darkness, every movement scrutinized."
>
> In the study of "micro-expressions"-yes, it is actually a field of
> study and there are some who are arrogant enough to call it a science-
> it has been decided that when people wish to conceal emotions, the
> truth of their feelings is revealed in facial flashes. These experts
> have determined that fear and disgust are the key things to look for
> because they can hint of deception.
This field of study is valid. The hangup here is that being micro-
expressions they are nearly impossible to observe without electromyography
or frame by frame video analysis.
Some dude at the air****t isn't going to catch micro-expressions.
Watch your corrugators people
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