Orwellian or What? TSA Has Gone Too Far This Time!

Just as you think the TSA can't get any more odious and intrusive, they now deploy what are known as Behavior Detection Officers in airports. Their job, single out people who "don't look right", in other words, you could be detained for any of the following "offenses", visible nervousness, not making enough eye contact or any suspect facial expressions that could be the result of that person being apotential terroist. WHAT IN GOD'S NAME HAVE WE COME TO???? HAVE WE REALLY GOTTEN THIS STUPID?? Do I have to paint on a smile just because some dimwit is trying to impress their boss with how many people they can harass or pull aside for "not looking right" or being a "suspicious character"?

We hear that it's the latest weapon in the war on terror, but personally, I beg to differ. Since 9/11, under the aegis of the Bush Administration's utterly ass-backwards "War On Terror", it's actually creating more insecurity, stress and paving the way for all kinds Orwellian nastiness. Good Lord, am I going to find myself being arrested and ruthlessly interrogated just because I don't smile enough or somehow "don't look right"?

I'm glad to see I'm not the only person taking issue with this kind of insanity and blatant assault on the Constitutional rights of American citizens (You arrogant dolts in the TSA, ever heard of the Fourth Amendment? Ever actually bothered to read it?). Check out this opinion piece by Patti Davis and more thoughts by Bob Barr, plus an article in the Seattle Times.

Yet another compelling case for the impeachment of George Dubbaya!