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Mitchell Holman <Noemailplease@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> JQPublic <Junk@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in
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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?
We don't do that in America, we fear hurting the feelings of any
particular group of people. It's so much easier this way.
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