[Dan Evans]

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."

[cowdog77]

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.

[fso301]

[spokeshave]

"American officers receive 16 hours of training — far less than their Israeli counterparts_ because U.S. officials want to be less intrusive. "

Your gobmint at work (no pun intended)...

Seems to me if they want to be LESS intrusive ..and MORE effective they should have MUCH MORE training.

[CodeToad]

Those high school dropouts couldn’t tell if someone was farting much less was on a terrorist mission.

[Henchster]

The use of "micro-expressions" to identify hidden emotions began nearly 30 years ago when Ekman and colleague Maureen O'Sullivan began studying videotapes of people telling lies. When they slowed down the videotapes, they noticed distinct facial movements and began to catalogue them. They were flickers of expression that lasted no more than a fraction of a second.

"I did not have sexual relations with that woman, (flinch) .....Mis Lewinsky, (flinch) and I never told anyone to lie, (flinch) not a once, (flinch) never. (flinch) These allegations are false, (flinch) and I need to go back to work for the American people."

[Sig Sauer P220]

Oh great, I always have a scowl on my face as I go through all the hassles of flying. They’ll stop me every time.

[Sender]

I believe there is truth to this method if it is properly implemented. To be really effective, the idea of Muslim profiling will have to be added.

[Xenalyte]

Between the astounding stupidity of the workers and the nightmare that is airport parking, I might as well never plan a flight again.

[getmeouttaPalmBeachCounty_FL]

This makes me laugh.

Two weeks ago on the 1st, I was in the Philadelphia Airport. My family was flying standby, and we did quite a few hours of sitting and waiting.

At one point, three TSA agents walked past us and began “setting up shop” in front of a gate awaiting an arriving aircraft. Two of the TSA folks were heavy-set gentlemen in their late 20s/early 30s and one was a very thin mid to late 50s female. All three set up a table and opened up three folding chairs in which they placed their rear ends for about 20 minutes. Two of them chewed gum like it was cud. One sat and played with a cell phone for a bit, then took out a magazine. One continued reading a paperback book.

I begged my husband to unzip his back which housed our digital camera, but he declined. We just sat there, shaking our heads watching the “safety” personnel before us. They never looked around or looked up from what they were reading or doing. Not once.

[TChris]

"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."

Orwell's prescience is a thing of wonder.

[Raycpa]

This is great to announce even if we are not doing it.

[fishhound]

So a few hours of trianing is going to help them detect people from other cultures. People who have maybe different expressions or nuance in thier expressions unrelated to our culture?

Behavior Detection Officers I can’t believe they called it that.
They don’t seem to good policing thier own.

http://www.breitbart.tv/html/4368.html

[af_vet_rr]

They're called Behavior Detection Officers

Not a week goes by where somebody in this administration doesn't do something that disturbs me as an American and as somebody who has supported the GOP for decades.

If Janet Reno/Bill Clinton implemented this, Republicans would have been in an uproar and in the streets. Instead, I hear many pull the "well, if it makes us safer" crap that tells me they don't have a clue.

[U S Army EOD]

If the expression is total disgust, then no one will be allowed to fly.

[thinking]

All this crap, is get around profiling....now, all that has to be said is, I didn't like the way she/he looked....

[fishhound]

Behavior Detection Officers?

What is next?
...Behavior “Modification” Officers?