Posted on 08/15/2007 7:39:06 AM PDT by Dan Evans
This is exactly profiling the way Israel does it. And it's about time.
I think we’ve gone way overboard with TSA security. We should leave it to the people and the private sector. Our federal government is stupid and way too incompetent to be left in charge of such an important issue.
We asked one of the fashionable dressed attendants about the open door.
He said that he looked at each passenger when they boarded and if he was comfortable he left the door open.
I guess flights in and out of Palermo probably have additional insurance from local community groups.
Anyone with these "facial expressions" should be strongly considered for a the full frisking.
The Isrealis have been doing this a whole lot longer than we have. Right now, the controls that we have in place are really just designed to annoy people (I've never heard of anyone being attacked with nail clippers, for instance....). Bringing in some people that really know what they're doing is a good start, IMHO.
Analyzing the people that are actual threats (PROFILING!!!) is a good, IMHO. Maybe this will introduce a little sanity....searching little old ladies and 6 month old babies because people "need to be randomly selected..." might finally go away.
Of course, this *is* the TSA. I'm not sure that some the people I've dealt with in Airport Security could find their own ass with both hands and map in broad daylight.
Yikes. What happens when you have been standing in a 2 hour line, and finally get to the checkpoint? Your face might not be so happy. How about adding that you’re flying to a relative’s funeral?
Who knew how prescient ‘1984’ would be?
I was never in favor of creating the TSA. But that’s a question for another session of congress. Private security would be fine with me, though having been flying for many years I remember also the complaints pre-TSA about the pitiful quality of employees that were doing screening at airports. It was a joke. Few even spoke english. While the TSA is the bloat-ware solution, and overboard just like anything that government does, it is better than it used to be back then. But sure, there’s room for improvement.
I see this as finally starting to get into the more advanced techniques that will actually work better.
Isn't that counter-intuitive? Wouldn't MORE training make you better at detecting without being detected?
Yes they have, and with very great success.
Oh joy! Surely these agents will protect us from the danger of the 80-year old granny from Oklahoma who’s nervous and apprehensive about being screened by a bumbling, surly TSA thug.
If granny flinches the wrong way for a millisecond, it’s a cavity search and a waterboarding.
Whew, I feel safer already!
And the human eye after 16 hours of "training" will be able to pick up on this?
Yeesh, people... this is NOT about looking for happy or unhappy people. It's about reading people. We all do it to one extent or another. Sometimes you can tell that somebody's mannerisms, expressions, personality... just doesn't fit right with who they are, what they're doing or what's going on around them...
It's not mind reading or thought police. It's seeing somebody in the line or in the waiting area that seems to have a different plan than everybody else getting on that plane.
KLM airlines out of Schipol use one on one interrogations for international passengers.
I do not have faith that the current TSA clerk could possibly have the skills to do this with 16 hours of training.
It is one thing to teach sophisticated techniques to enhance our security. This assumes those you are teaching have the mental capacity to truly understand and implement these techniques.
It is quite another thing to attempt to teach these techniques to the low IQ boobs they have working at the TSA.
This will do nothing to enhance security unless the very first thing they teach is to focus attention on middle eastern males. But, political correctness will not allow that. So, they will be using these face reading techniques on grandma, babies in strollers, priests, old white men, and hot looking babes they just want to impress with their power.
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That’s nice.
I have a better idea....
get rid of the long lines through security. Instead pull aside anyone that remotely resembles a Muslim and any “soft impressionable white boys” and grill them. Let the rest of us pass through and go on about our business.
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