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Posted on 08/15/2007 7:39:06 AM PDT by Dan Evans
"Surveillance 4: Winston thinks about how dangerous it is to allow your thoughts to wander when you are in public or facing the telescreen. Your facial expressions are watched closely and the wrong expression can have dire consequences. For example, looking disbelieving when a victory is announced would be facecrime."
Sounds like we’ve been getting some training from El Al security.
Good.
I feel safer already.
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Frightening stuff. What if someone is having a really bad day. Besides, since traveling these days is usually a nightmare to begin with, how could they even tell?
-- George Orwell, 1984
No threat:
What's particularly galling is none of these TSA measures make anybody any more safe than merely allowing fellow passengers to notify somebody of suspicious activity.
The biggest danger to commercial aircraft is shoulder-fired missiles, but good luck getting them to admit.
The TSA is as useless as mammary glands on a boar hog.
Yes. It’s a good thing. Of course. We need to be safe. They won’t abuse the authority. And we can trust them.
Learning to read people is a skill that security personnel ~should~ have. "Having a bad day" is easy enough to spot, especially in airports, and it's pretty normal. This is a technique that El Al has been using for many years, and they're pretty good at it. It's one of the best and most useful ways to "profile" people that have a different agenda than merely getting to a destination.
This is a good thing.
Who would be unhappy after waiting in line for two hours to get on a plane? Who would show fear as several Imams rant about the Great Satan? Who would be disgusted at an elderly woman in a wheelchair getting a body cavity search?
You mean like the cop who arrested a guy because he looked too buff?
Abuse the authority? Nonsense. This is the sort of thing that security ~should~ be doing. Too much time and energy is spent trying to keep “things” off of airplanes when it’s not the “things” that are necessarily the problem. It’s the terrorist ~people~ that need to be recognized, not the nail clippers.
It’s not the gun. It’s the shooter.
Yeah, but who's watching the watchers? El Al isn't hiring Muslims to look for the terrorists like we do. They still have a bit of sanity left.
...and... isn't suspicious at all. Just like everybody else. You almost had it there.
But the guy planning to hijack the plane is going to act a bit differently and when you know what to look for, will stand out from the crowd.
What? You mean that you don’t trust TSA to keep us safe? The agency that won’t let you take water on a plane, and intrusively checks granny in a way that makes her cry? The agency which is forbidden to profile the way that Israel does?
Different problem. But you’re right about that.
Why is the family newspaper describing new airport security methods in detail? This is mostly a heads up for terrorists and other Democrats.
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