Posted on 10/05/2004 5:28:46 AM PDT by SJackson
This weekend, the Transportation Security Administration will begin watching air travelers for suspicious behavior. We must be one step ahead of the terrorists or our efforts will be worthless
Time magazine recently reported that the Transportation Security Administration, the U.S. agency charged with protecting airplanes, has concluded that the "most dangerous threat to commercial aviation is not so much the things bad people may be carrying, but the bad people themselves."
Accordingly, Time goes on, the TSA is launching a passenger profiling system known as Screening of Passengers by Observation Techniques, or SPOT. Under SPOT, the TSA staff learns to recognize suspicious personal behavior. "Passengers who flag concerns by exhibiting unusual or anxious behavior will be pointed out to local police, who will then conduct face-to-face interviews to determine whether any threat exists."
However belatedly, the Bush administration has recognized that terrorists, more than the tools of their trade, must be watched and stopped. This amounts to a gigantic step forward in the protection of American travelers. The administration deserves congratulations for the courage to accept the need for profiling.
But SPOT is just a first step. Skilled terrorists learn how not to be nervous or give off other tell-tale signs. To be fully effective, profiling must focus on something more inherent to terrorism than anxiety. What might that be? Here is where the debate gets both productive and interesting.
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About time I'd say, but you still won't get me on an airplane.
The needle is off the meter on this guy!
Hey, for a weird Orwellian technology used to check someone try Brain Fingerprinting!
Some people up the chain got big plans for us "little people." I too will be looking to relocate. This state is for S%^%$T! I'm looking towards Idaho or Montana. A little mountain side "compound" of my own.
And we'll all be safe, because no one will ever think a bad thought...
Man ,I thought my teeth were yellow!
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