From 1984:
"Surveillance 4: Winston thinks about how dangerous it is to allow your thoughts to wander when you are in public or facing the telescreen. Your facial expressions are watched closely and the wrong expression can have dire consequences. For example, looking disbelieving when a victory is announced would be facecrime."
1 posted on
08/15/2007 7:39:07 AM PDT by
Dan Evans
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To: Dan Evans
Sounds like we’ve been getting some training from El Al security.
Good.
2 posted on
08/15/2007 7:41:05 AM PDT by
Ramius
(Personally, I give us... one chance in three. More tea?)
To: Dan Evans
American officers receive 16 hours of training far less than their Israeli counterparts_ because U.S. officials want to be less intrusive. I feel safer already.
3 posted on
08/15/2007 7:42:12 AM PDT by
rocksblues
(Just enforce the law!)
To: Dan Evans
>New airport agents check for danger in fliers' facial expressions
I guess from now on John will have to get around on a Greyhound bus!
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To: Dan Evans
Frightening stuff. What if someone is having a really bad day. Besides, since traveling these days is usually a nightmare to begin with, how could they even tell?
5 posted on
08/15/2007 7:42:31 AM PDT by
USMCWife6869
(Godspeed Sand Sharks.)
To: Dan Evans
"It was terribly dangerous to let your thoughts wander when you were in any public place or within range of a telescreen. The smallest thing could give you away. A nervous tic, an unconscious look of anxiety, a habit of muttering to yourself -- anything that carried with it the suggestion of abnormality, of having something to hide. In any case, to wear an improper expression on your face (to look incredulous when a victory was announced, for example) was itself a punishable offence. There was even a word for it in Newspeak: facecrime, it was called.
-- George Orwell, 1984
![](http://cryptogon.com/images/facecrime.gif)
6 posted on
08/15/2007 7:43:05 AM PDT by
Dan Evans
To: Dan Evans
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facecrime
![](http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:kJdUGQnK0UIchM:http://www.worldproutassembly.org/images/helen_thomas.jpg)
To: Dan Evans
Subversive terroist:
![](http://www.sethbarnes.com/blogphotos/sethbarnes/www/church_lady.jpg)
No threat:
![](http://developer.valvesoftware.com/w/images/5/56/Terrorist.jpg)
8 posted on
08/15/2007 7:44:00 AM PDT by
CholeraJoe
("I shall need the clankers.")
To: Dan Evans
The thought-police have arrived.
What's particularly galling is none of these TSA measures make anybody any more safe than merely allowing fellow passengers to notify somebody of suspicious activity.
The biggest danger to commercial aircraft is shoulder-fired missiles, but good luck getting them to admit.
The TSA is as useless as mammary glands on a boar hog.
9 posted on
08/15/2007 7:44:22 AM PDT by
E. Pluribus Unum
(Islam is a religion of peace, and Muslims reserve the right to kill anyone who says otherwise.)
To: Dan Evans
Why is the family newspaper describing new airport security methods in detail? This is mostly a heads up for terrorists and other Democrats.
20 posted on
08/15/2007 8:01:09 AM PDT by
Reeses
(Leftism is powered by the evil force of envy.)
To: Dan Evans
Not to worry, TSA is on the job!
![](http://www.dba-oracle.com/images/tsa_profiling.jpg)
23 posted on
08/15/2007 8:02:57 AM PDT by
dfwgator
(The University of Florida - Still Championship U)
To: Dan Evans
My wife and I boarded a flight from Palermo to Milan shortly after 9-11. We sat in the front row and noticed immediately that the cockpit door was open and left open after take off.
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.
To: Dan Evans
![](http://boortz.com/images/911_hijackers.jpg)
Anyone with these "facial expressions" should be strongly considered for a the full frisking.
25 posted on
08/15/2007 8:04:47 AM PDT by
Uncle Miltie
(Confidence in Congress has hit an all-time low of 14%)
To: Dan Evans
This program sounds Orwellian, but I don't think that it is. I think that it's the way the article is written.
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.
26 posted on
08/15/2007 8:07:08 AM PDT by
wbill
To: Dan Evans
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?
27 posted on
08/15/2007 8:07:56 AM PDT by
TheSpottedOwl
(If the families still ran Las Vegas, Harry Reid would be napping at the bottom of Hoover Dam)
To: Dan Evans
American officers receive 16 hours of training far less than their Israeli counterparts_ because U.S. officials want to be less intrusive. Isn't that counter-intuitive? Wouldn't MORE training make you better at detecting without being detected?
29 posted on
08/15/2007 8:09:44 AM PDT by
Don W
(Still searching for another pithy yet erudite tagline.)
To: Dan Evans
This person should be charged with a facecrime.
![](http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:kJdUGQnK0UIfBM:http://www.worldproutassembly.org/images/helen_thomas.jpg)
30 posted on
08/15/2007 8:12:19 AM PDT by
7thson
(I've got a seat at the big conference table! I'm gonna paint my logo on it!)
To: Dan Evans
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!
32 posted on
08/15/2007 8:13:50 AM PDT by
Mr J
(All IMHO.)
To: Dan Evans
They were flickers of expression that lasted no more than a fraction of a second. And the human eye after 16 hours of "training" will be able to pick up on this?
33 posted on
08/15/2007 8:16:15 AM PDT by
1Old Pro
To: Dan Evans
As one that flies many times a month and having dealt many times with the mental midgets the TSA has hired to do security, this will only give them one more reason to screw with everyday passengers.
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.
37 posted on
08/15/2007 8:26:43 AM PDT by
technomage
(The true Conservative politician will win every time.)
To: Dan Evans
38 posted on
08/15/2007 8:28:05 AM PDT by
Dick Vomer
(liberals suck....... but it depends on what your definition of the word "suck" is.,)
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