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> Mandra wrote:
>> At the Air****t, You Better Smile
>> 'Behavior Detection Officers' are now watching passengers' facial
>> expressions for signs of danger
>>
>> by Patti Davis
Patti Davis? As in Reagan's daughter 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.
>>
>> Let's see, fear and disgust in an air****t? I'm frightened and disgusted
>> weeks before I have to show up at an air****t. In fact, I've pretty much
>> sworn off the whole idea of going anywhere by airplane. It's bad enough
>> that I might be trapped in a crowded plane with no food or water and
>> nonworking toilets for hours; now there are security agents
>> interpreting our facial expressions. The face police, in place at more
>> than a dozen U.S. air****ts already, aren't identified as such. But the
>> watcher could be at curbside baggage, the ticket counter or near the
>> metal detectors and X-ray machines. The Trans****tation Security
>> Administration hopes to have as many as 500 Behavior Detection Officers
>> on the job by the end of 2008.
>>
>> But what about the woman who is getting on a plane to see a dying
>> relative? Or the man who is traveling to another state to see a cancer
>> specialist in a last bid for extending his life? What about the guy who
>> just had a fight with his spouse and now worries that a plane crash
>> would mean their last words were in anger? We've all had the experience
>> of having a bad day, being in a rotten mood-especially at the air****t,
>> which has become a modern-day chamber or horrors. On those days,
>> doesn't it seem like everyone we meet looks sour and unpleasant? The
>> opposite is also true. When we're happy and joyful, we look at others
>> and see happiness in them. Or even if we don't, we look at them kindly
>> and with compassion. It's human nature to look at others through the
>> lens of our own reality.
>>
>> Here's where it gets really absurd. Apparently, these Behavior
>> Detection Officers work in pairs. One scenario is that an officer might
>> move in to "help" a passenger retrieve their belongings after they've
>> been screened. And then the officer will ask where the passenger is
>> headed. If the passenger's reaction sets off alarm bells in the
>> officer's well-trained mind, another officer will move in and detain
>> them. Let's be really clear here. If a stranger moved in on me like
>> that, I'd tell that person to go to hell, throw in a few other
>> expletives for good measure and probably give them the finger as I
>> stomped off. Of course, I wouldn't be stomping very far.
>>
>> So while TSA employees are confiscating our scissors and water bottles,
>> they're going to secretly be staring at us, looking for some telltale
>> sign of terrorist intent in a grimace, a sigh, a crinkled nose? Who
>> knows what? In the end, the Behavior Detection Officers are the ones
>> who are really acting suspicious. Which is the truth of the matter
>> anyway.
>>
>>
>>
> Why not just skip all this crap and get right to the water-boarding.
> All passengers will be water-boarded until they can convince the
> interrogator they have no plans to hijack the airplane, that jeebus is
> their personal savior and cite the pledge of allegiance.
> Additional measures may be necessary depending on the color coded threat
> level.
>
How about just detain and search arab men, the group
responsible for the threat of hijacking, and let the rest
of us board airplanes unhindered?
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