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NASA plans to read terrorist's minds at airports
Washington Times ^ | 8/17/02 | Frank J. Murray

Posted on 08/16/2002 10:18:03 PM PDT by kattracks

Edited on 07/12/2004 3:56:19 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

Airport security screeners may soon try to read the minds of travelers to identify terrorists.

Officials of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration have told Northwest Airlines security specialists that the agency is developing brain-monitoring devices in cooperation with a commercial firm, which it did not identify.


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To: kattracks
Looks like Johnny is coming out of retirement..


41 posted on 08/17/2002 5:18:56 AM PDT by FormerLurker
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To: kattracks
Let's see, they're going to
  1. profile me at the check-in
  2. scan my "national ID" card
  3. put me in a cattle-line to get to the metal detectors
  4. make me undo my belt and take off my shoes at the "security" checkpoint (perhaps frisking me or touching my abdomen)
  5. "profile" me using my body language, perhaps as I'm being frisked in public
  6. empty my luggage in full public view
  7. scan me with a device that can see through my clothes
  8. search my luggage again at the boarding gate
  9. put me in a plane with untrained federal marshalls
  10. and now scan my brainwaves for "unusual" patterns.

And this is all implemented by third-worlders including Muslims wearing headdress.

And the baggage is still not scanned.

And Abdul the Muslim male - with his unambiguous desire to destroy America - is no more subject to this than myself, the prototypical American.

This is sheer insanity. I think I'll take the train. Whoops, that's going bankrupt too.

42 posted on 08/17/2002 5:29:41 AM PDT by angkor
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To: kattracks
If this were to be implemented, ALL the airlines would see their passenger manifests drop to 0 within a few days.
43 posted on 08/17/2002 5:52:00 AM PDT by xrp
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To: glock rocks
but they do frisk buxom blond american women. hmmmmm.

There is no telling what those thugs with jugs are planning.

44 posted on 08/17/2002 6:12:30 AM PDT by chainsaw
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To: kattracks
At first reading, I genuinely thought that this was a hoax. To check I did a Google search on Herb Schlickenmaier of NASA and Mihir Kshirsagar of the Electronic Privacy organization. Those sounded like the wierd named used in hoax articles. Well, they are both mentioned on many other web pages in association with their respective organizations, going back quite a while.

This still smells like a hoax to me, but if so they are using or abusing the names of real people to do it.

45 posted on 08/17/2002 6:23:13 AM PDT by Joe Bonforte
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To: All
you guys remember when somebody claims the government is reading their thoughts, and the are written off as a nut job? quickly locked up?

guess it was possible
46 posted on 08/17/2002 6:24:52 AM PDT by galt-jw
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To: kattracks
I love that name "Herb Schlickenmaier"

But if they still refuse to profile terrorists, what good will it do to read their minds? As it is a terrorist can yell BOMB in an airport, and if he looks Middle Eastern, young, male -- they won't touch him! Just flew from LA to Houston this week and my son and I were picked out for a bag search. They told us when we checked in that "our names came up" to have a baggage search. He is red headed, I am blondish, both of us look Irish, and very much American. We are taking him to college tomorrow, in Texas and he has lived with us in LA all summer. He was carrying everything he owns, plus we were traveling with two cats, and my husband also had his computer. We were not amused with the thought of having all of our stuff taken out and searched through. For some reason they let us pass without the bag search. We were relieved. Traveling by air is such a pain now. It used to be such a pleasure, I HATE it now, and I was traveling First Class on Continental. We are all just cattle to the airlines now.

47 posted on 08/17/2002 7:23:30 AM PDT by NEBO
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To: ramdalesh
If they ever start arresting us for our thoughts, I am in trouble. But I NEVER act on my illegal thougts! I rarely have them, but when I do, my conscience takes over and stops me. With thought police, you will be arrested for a passing illegal thought! Even if you never react to them. This is just crazy.
48 posted on 08/17/2002 7:27:59 AM PDT by NEBO
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To: ramdalesh
In that way you can save millions of dollars. Just build one really powerful MRI telescope. Tell the people that your going to use it. Then use it, then the war is over.

it's easier than that... you don't even need to build the telescope... you just need to tell the people that you have done so...

49 posted on 08/17/2002 7:48:05 AM PDT by glock rocks
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To: kattracks
I don't suppose anybody named Kenneth knows what the frequency is?

Yet another democrat plot exposed. Why do you think JFK got everbody to stop wearing hats?
Guess the rappers/wannabees know what they're doing.

50 posted on 08/17/2002 8:06:22 AM PDT by Calvin Locke
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To: chainsaw
but they do frisk buxom blond american women. hmmmmm. There is no telling what those thugs with jugs are planning.

They're a secret weapon, of course: whack a man with one of those, and he forgets whatever he was planning!

51 posted on 08/17/2002 9:47:18 AM PDT by BlazingArizona
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To: kattracks
Are they going to get Johnny Carson out of retirement to do "Karnak"?
52 posted on 08/17/2002 10:58:57 AM PDT by sheik yerbouty
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To: kattracks
After discovering the anti-government thoughts of thought criminals you can "Neuralize" the guilty thought criminal on the spot. The Neuralizer is basically just an electric pulse that is tuned to the harmonic frequency of the memory cells of the brain, reverses the direction of the electric pulse traveling down the length of the neuron.

Thus saving the hassle of developing a "Ministry of Love" or "Ministry of Information Retrieval" and will save many taxpayer dollars that would have been wasted on imprisonment for suspected thought criminals.

Suspected Suicide Bomber Mysteriously Develops Amnesia At Airport

and

Search Intensifies to Discover the Identity of Suspected Ex-Terrorist

and

Mind Reading Technology Malfunctions at Local Airport. 258 Passengers Were Neuralized as the Boarded Flight 747.

Officials say the malfunction was caused by a power surge which reversed the electric flow in the new Airport Security MRI scan. The security scanner was designed to locate a particular electricical frequency in the Hypocampus of all passengers hoping to isolate potential hijackers. The Hypocampus is the region of the brain where memories are stored, and unfortunately the power sugre at the airport terminal accidentally erased the memories of 258.
"The passengers were all stunned. When they realized that they had boarded an airplane but had completely forgotten everything about themselves." The F.B.I were notified of the emergency and a security staff was arrived at Kennedy airport to assist the passengers as they searched through their luggage and personal possessions hoping to recover any memory of who they were and what was the nature of their business. "Luckily everybody has some form of I.D. with their name and a picture on it and most of the passengers recovered most of the essential information about themselves after the plane landed." says Airport Security Official. 27 people were voluntarily taken to a nearby hospital where regression hypnosis and psychotherapy are being used to help recover the lost memories.


53 posted on 08/17/2002 1:00:51 PM PDT by ramdalesh
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To: kattracks
NASA wants to use "noninvasive neuro-electric sensors," imbedded in gates, to collect tiny electric signals that all brains and hearts transmit.

I better not think about Clinton when I walk through a gate!

54 posted on 08/17/2002 1:16:49 PM PDT by Arthur Wildfire! March
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To: kattracks
Ironic or not, but Dune: The Butlerian Jihad is released next month.

Maybe there's an idea from a sci-fi classic. Astute readers will know what I'm referring to.

(oh alright then... smash them machines!!! ;-)

55 posted on 08/17/2002 1:18:04 PM PDT by Darth Sidious
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To: kattracks
I'm for this, even though it's scary. This is, in no way the Mark of the Beast. Nor is it looking for 'thought crimes'. What part of your brain has blood in it could not possibly get you put in jail under current law.

Here's what is great about this: a terrorist might have a heart attack before he even reaches the gate, even when this technology is at a crude level.

56 posted on 08/17/2002 1:30:12 PM PDT by Arthur Wildfire! March
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To: kattracks
must be some sort of a retirement project for all those ex-nazi scientists.
57 posted on 08/17/2002 2:56:52 PM PDT by Crazymonarch
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To: 2sheep
new airport FEMA camp screeners
58 posted on 08/17/2002 3:01:31 PM PDT by Crazymonarch
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To: Crazymonarch; 2sheep; babylonian; Jeremiah Jr

59 posted on 08/17/2002 3:16:32 PM PDT by Thinkin' Gal
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To: Arthur Wildfire! March
I'm for this, even though it's scary. This is, in no way the Mark of the Beast. Nor is it looking for 'thought crimes'. What part of your brain has blood in it could not possibly get you put in jail under current law.

You know full well that the laws could and will be written soon after.

60 posted on 08/17/2002 4:21:20 PM PDT by X-FID
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