‘Behavior detection officers’ are keeping a close eye on travelers

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WASHINGTON | Next time you go to the airport, more eyes may be following you than you notice.

Reading your body language. Studying the facial cues of the passenger in front of you. Scanning for signs of bad intentions, the watcher could be the attendant who hands you the tray for your laptop or the one standing behind the ticket checker. Or even curbside with the baggage attendants.

Called behavior detection officers, they are part of recent security upgrades, Transportation Security Administrator Kip Hawley told an aviation industry group in Washington last month, “a wonderful tool to be able to identify and do risk management prior to somebody coming into the airport or approaching the crowded checkpoint.”

The officers are working in more than a dozen airports already, said Paul Ekman, a former professor at the University of California-San Francisco who has advised Hawley’s agency.


Billions of dollars to determine we should look out for nervous people, hope you washed your butt well if you forgot your motion sickness pills.

On every fucking flight.

Every one.

And they separate her from her mother to question her.

She's five years old.

for questioning?

What have we become?

But The PATRIOT Act straightened that shit out, didn't it?

America will probably not wake up till they pass the "We are the only good Americans and anyone who doesn't believe it will be shot act"

That's just wrong.

That has never happened to me before now.

Welcome to the asylum, msnurse2u.

I have a secret chamber in my heart for nurses.

Tom

:hi:

Not that it isn't hard to believe. In Bushmerika, I'm afraid, everything up to the smokestack of the "industrial yard" belching out human soot, thought o be honest that sort of thing likely won't start until after I am dead.

But what do I know? 10 years ago I remember confidently saying: "We probably won't see the first blows against American Democracy for 30 years."

30? It was THREE! 12/12/2000 The Day EVERYTHING Changed.

Faith in the authority to do the right thing.

That has worked out well in the past from what I understand.:sarcasm:

while waiting for late planes anymore... :eyes:

even if I show no emotion, seeing you do that will amuse me and other normal people as well.:)

And always remain perky and upbeat even when waiting an hour at the security checkpoint as the TSA enforcers busily confiscate some more scissors from little blue-rinsed octogenarian quilters. Maybe engage a stranger in conversation about something innocuous, like the weather or sports.

Since there's a good chance that the stranger will be a snitch, you want to leave the best possible, non-threatening impression. Be careful not to express impatience, since that could be construed as a negative comment about our noble security forces. No toe-tapping or finger-drumming. Try to maintain a neutral expression, and smile when it's appropriate.

When those strangers stick their fingers into your purse or pockets, don't become annoyed because that's exactly the kind of reaction the behavior detection officers are trained to spot. Again, remain perky and upbeat and, above all, cooperative. The authorities don't like it when you become assertive; best to remain meek and compliant, even when they feel you up in the name of defending the homeland. Smile a lot.


wp

and brought him home and placed him in a small room covered in paper for a week.

After a week of doing it's business on the paper, the man then cut the paper down to half the floor, the dog continued to do it's business on the paper.

Then a quarter of the room for a week, then an eighth, then a sixteenth.

After a short time he had the dog trained to go on a sheet of typing paper.

One day he decided to leave only a 3 x 5 card for his dog.

The dog shit all over the room.

This is an old hillbilly tale we used to tell our friends when we saw a them loosing perspective as they passed their children to adulthood.

We are now shitting on a postage stamp and being told it isn't good enough by a bunch of assholes who have not hit the toilet in years.

For neurotypicals, one can get a common pattern.

Terrorists, at least some of them, would probably be able to mask their feelings.

The mentally ill (aka 'depression') and certain behavior disorders that are otherwise benign would be treated as terrorists too if the smile looked phony or if they had a blank look on their face, et cetera.

It's not a bad idea in theory, but in practice I fear there are too many variables.

on one trip i was searched something like 6 times between amsterdam and detroit, i mean, come on, at some point it was just ridiculous, i couldn't have had anything dangerous after the first search, although i suppose it's possible they were also looking for drugs -- would have had to have been a VERY small amount after the 5th or 6th search or so!

it's better, much better, now that i can show a regular history of lots of air travel w.out causing any harm to self or other -- don't get secondary'd nearly as often

still becoming a frequent flyer is not too practical for someone with down's syndrome who might travel once or twice a year to see family

even people who makes hundreds of thousands of dollars or even millions reading faces (poker players) make plenty of mis calls so i don't believe these dudes w. 16 hours of training are not going to tell anything from somebody's face

Behavior Control Technician by Fishbone

Children runaway from the torturistic ways
Children still resist from the powers that persist
Will you shut up and sit still
I think you should obey
Having very few rights we cannot communicate

Train my brain to work the way you want me to
Don't question authority see
Be a little zombie that agrees with you
You are strapped with a double standard cup
In a battle you won't win
And when it's over we're gonna dance your memory away

Sheltering will restrict your baby's mind

noisy settings, like airports. She has autism. Nice to know that we can expect extra harassment due to her disability. :mad:

much crap they'll give us. And to think I was worried about him getting noisy on a flight.

They can't actually come right out and say "we're checking out all you swarthy types" so they have to couch it in terms of looking for certain behaviors.

Well I am an anxious traveler. And this is NOT going to help me. I am always so nervous about being late, about missing a flight. I flipped out after one recent trip because they lost my luggage. Again. Every trip I have been on in the last couple of years has been lately, sometimes more than 24 hours late. And usually they lose my luggage as well. And I know I am not along in these experiences. So yes, people are pissed off when flying. And that will blow this behavior profiling all to hell.