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TSA: Complain about all the groping? Fine, we’ll grope you some more. Because we can.

If you complain, TSA gives you some extra attention. It’s in the regs.

CNN has obtained a list of roughly 70 “behavioral indicators” that TSA behavior detection officers use to identify potentially “high risk” passengers at the nation’s airports.

Many of the indicators, as characterized in open government reports, are behaviors and appearances that may be indicative of stress, fear or deception. None of them, as the TSA has long said, refer to or suggest race, religion or ethnicity.

But one addresses passengers’ attitudes towards security, and how they express those attitudes.

It reads: “Very arrogant and expresses contempt against airport passenger procedures.”

That, of course, is not intended to deal with terrorists. Terrorists are trained to keep cool until the killing commences, and in any case it hasn’t stopped any terrorists from boarding any planes. That is intended to punish you and me for not enjoying it when we or our children get violated in public at the hands of our government.

It’s a punishment.

(h/t Instapundit)

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Posted at 11:16 am on April 15th, 2011 by

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  1. Ah, the 21st-century version of “The beatings will continue until morale improves”!

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_beatings_will_continue_until_morale_improves

    • daxypoo

      i’m sure that airplanes will continue to crack open as well

      not to mention, the nursery school approach to deal with the sleepy air traffic controllers—- NAP TIME!!!

  2. 2. jsallison

    If any of y’all from the airlines are reading this, I don’t fly any more. The TSA is why. And you did it. My work causes me to travel multiple times a year. I drive. Even when I take a financial loss to do it.

    After 20 years serving my country in uniform, I will NOT, absolutely WILL NOT be treated as a potential terrorist by some jackwagon that couldn’t be hired as a burger flipper. I’m referring to Pistole.

    Every %)#_$!&^#$ one of you can kiss my fourth point of contact, I’ll give you two weeks to raise a crowd to observe said lip service, in a public place of your choosing.

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