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TSA's "Behavior Detection Officers"
Stanistani sends us to MSNBC for a dyspeptic Newsweek commentary on the TSA's latest attempt to make air travel safer: the rather ominously named "Behavior Detection Officers" now working in a dozen US airports, and slated to go nationwide in 2008. They are trained in the discipline of reading "micro-expressions." The editorialist calls that a pseudo-science, but in fact it's a well-understood skill that can be taught and learned. A cursory look at this TSA program might put one in mind of Orwell's "facecrime," and that's the road the Newsweek writer goes down. Yet some who bemoan the security theater historically run by the TSA point to the gold standard of airport security, Tel Aviv airport, and wonder why TSA officers can't act more like the Israelis. Bruce Schneier wrote recently about one reason why the Israeli security model isn't completely transplantable to these shores: scale. And here's Schneier's take on behavioral profiling from a year ago. That's what the BDOs will be trying for: scrutinizing intent instead of pocket knives. Let's just hope they don't get swamped with false positives.
Do you know what "Zionism" stands for? It's a movement to establish/have a country for the Jews. So you're saying that only a minority of Jews think that having a country for their people is a good idea?
If only one could get that wonderful feeling of accomplishment without having to accomplish anything.
Of course Israel is worse than its racist laws. It is a country that declares itself to be for one type of people. Would you object if America decleard itself to be a country only for white christians?
This is a good illustration of the reality of Israel; http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/nimer_sultany/ 2007/04/dont_call_it_discrimination.html.printer.f riendly
Zionism, like Manifest Destiny before it, is a racist ideology. I would consider your assertion that most Jews are Zionists to be slanderous.
Did you read the entry about Yitzhak Rabin? He was one of the terrorist founders of Israel! For him to be killed by an Israeli terrorist is exquisite justice.
This, of course, is what Zionists desperately want you to think. Having a rather impressive array of hard empirical evidence arrayed against them, their only recourse is to try drown you in bullshit, while at the same time discouraging factual research, thus trying to somehow impugn all information. It is the quintessential equivalent of the "Don't pay any attention to the man behind the curtain!".
True, some "data" is pure hearsay, on both sides of this, but a significant portion is not. The trick to estabilishing the overall picture of the Zionist machinations is rather simple: use of scientifically authenticated data originating at neutral (to the Zionist or anti-Zionist cause) sources. One method of establishing the neutrality is the one which I mentioned: data gathered prior to Zionism becoming a major factor. Another is inderect statistical data, cross-referenced with other, global, far removed from Middle East and the conflict therein, processes, such as global financial markets or industries. These alone paint a coarse, but quite sufficient image of the state of affairs, pointing the finger of responsiblity for all nearly all of the devastation and sufferring in the Middle East, complete with the responsibilty for the rise of violent radical Moslem extremism, squarely at the Zionists and their US backers.