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> In article <Xns99A154380654ta2eene2@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
> Mitchell Holman <Noemailplease@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>> JQPublic <Junk@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in
>> news:46dd56ac$0$11045$4c368faf@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>
>> > 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.
Darned this politically correct Bush administration.
If only we could elect a Republican president we wouldn't
have this problem.
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