Posted on 08/16/2006 12:46:47 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
Even before the United Kingdom terrorist plot last week, the Transportation Security Agency had begun revamping their airport security strategy. The Department of Homeland Security and the TSA are finally taking some positive steps to professionalize airport security. The initial step was designating security screeners as security officers, which will require additional training and supervision, as well as additional responsibilities. Part of the professionalization process is the training of airport security staff in what's been called psychological profiling or behavioral analysis or a number of other terms that all amount to the same thing -- avoiding allegations of racial profiling while at the same time effectively screening out potential terrorists.
This is a welcomed program by those of us in law enforcement who've said for years that psychological profiling should be used by airport security staff. While representing the staff and membership of the National Association of Chiefs of Police at lectures or during media interviews, I've often discussed the need for upgrading the training of airport security staff with part of the upgrade to include psychological profiling.
Most police officers and investigators are familiar with the concept since it's used during the interrogation and interview process to detect deception on the part of the subject. Without going into too much detail, interrogators or interviewers, while questioning a subject about the matter at hand, are observing body language, eye contact, breathing, physical characteristics such as dry mouth or profuse perspiration, and other criteria.
Israeli security agents and police have used kinetic interviewing for screening people at airports and security checkpoints for years with much success.
In a press release the American Civil Liberties Union has warned that the behavior analysis screening technique could result in racial profiling. Could result? Creating public policy based on what "could result" is nonsense since in this case the ACLU insinuates bad intentions on the part of US security and law enforcement agencies.
"[Behavior detection] is a code word for targeting brown-skinned males between ages 17 and 45 years. It’s not only racial profiling, it’s ethnic profiling," said Timothy Sparapani, who oversees privacy rights for the ACLU.
Mr. Sparapani doesn't mention how he arrived at the age bracket. He also fails to provide evidence that race and ethnicity enter into the behavior detection process. The ACLU attorneys seem to hallucinate whenever they read the US Constitution.
With recent events in Europe showing that certain whites are being recruited by terrorists, psychological profiling may prove even more effective than traditional criminal profiling. As usual, the ACLU is intentionally mischaracterizing the technique. When not portraying Boys Scouts as members of a Nazi-like organization, the ACLU is practiced in characterizing US cops as storm troopers.
If Al-Qaeda or the international terrorism network wanted to create an anti-American cell within the United States that would hamper efforts to protect American lives, they couldn't create a better cell than the ACLU. Each time a new technique or strategy is proposed or put into operation, the knee-jerk lawyers at the ACLU are right there trying to thwart the attempted innovation. Can anyone cite one case in which the ACLU sued on behalf of the victims of Islamofascists? Afterall, their victims' civil rights were obviously violated.
The ACLU is a non-profit organization, but it seems the have been empowered with a quasi-governmental status. With their comrades in the judiciary -- liberal judges appointed by liberal politicians -- they have been successful in hampering law enforcement and intelligence officers.
Soldiers deserve TSA's respect in screenings at airports
At Baltimore's airport on my way back to Orlando from Iraq, there were about 50 soldiers in line, waiting to be cleared by TSA. I noticed soldiers taking off clothing, and then they assumed the position so commonly seen in police-chase videos, arms and legs spread wide as a screener passed a wand close to their bodies. Soldiers were asked to remove belts, boots and shirts, and their carry-on bags were ransacked.
It has been my personal experience that most of the ACLU is comprised of pinheads that park in the middle of the road, don't get it right away when you ask them to move the car, and have recently pizzed off one of their two friends. they are worse than worthless and are a last resort for loosers.
They have power because so many people submit to them that should be kicking them out of their buildings.
The ACLU's continued actions could result in me putting my foot so far up all of their butt's the water on my knee will quench their thirst. Keep in mind this could only be a possible result.
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“I have been to Europe several times, mostly in connection with international radical activities…and have traveled in the United States to areas of conflict over workers rights to strike and organize. My chief aversion is the system of greed, private profit, privilege and violence which makes up the control of the world today, and which has brought it to the tragic crisis of unprecedented hunger and unemployment…Therefore, I am for Socialism, disarmament and ultimately, for the abolishing of the State itself…I seek the social ownership of property, the abolition of the propertied class and sole control of those who produce wealth. Communism is the goal.”
~ Roger Baldwin-founder of the ACLU~ther one from Mr. Baldwin.
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“Do steer away from making it look like a Socialist enterprise…We want also to look like patriots in everything we do. We want to get a good lot of flags, talk a good deal about the Constitution and what our forefathers wanted to make of this country, and to show that we are really the folks that really stand for the spirit of our institutions.”-Baldwin’s advice in 1917 to Louis Lochner of the socialist People’s Council in Minnesota.
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