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IF YOU'RE AFRAID OR DISGUSTED AT THE AIRPORT, HOMELAND SECURITY WANTS TO
QUESTION YOU
KAITLIN DIRRIG, MCCLATCHY - Next time you go to the airport, there may
be more eyes on you than you notice. Specially trained security
personnel are watching body language and facial cues of passengers for
signs of bad intentions. The watcher could be the attendant who hands
you the tray for your laptop or the one standing behind the
ticket-checker. Or the one next to the curbside baggage attendant.
They're called behavior detection officers, and they're part of several
recent security upgrades, Transportation Security Administrator Kip
Hawley told an aviation industry group in Washington last month. He
described them as "a wonderful tool to be able to identify and do risk
management prior to somebody coming into the airport or approaching the
crowded checkpoint."
The officers are working in more than a dozen airports already,
according to Paul Ekman, a former professor at the University of
California at San Francisco who has advised Hawley's agency on the
program. . . .
At the heart of the new screening system is a theory that when people
try to conceal their emotions, they reveal their feelings in flashes
that Ekman, a pioneer in the field, calls "micro-expressions." Fear and
disgust are the key ones, he said, because they're associated with
deception.
Behavior detection officers work in pairs. Typically, one officer sizes
up passengers openly while the other seems to be performing a routine
security duty. A passenger who arouses suspicion, whether by
micro-expressions, social interaction or body language gets subtle but
more serious scrutiny.
A behavior specialist may decide to move in to help the suspicious
passenger recover belongings that have passed through the baggage X-ray.
Or he may ask where the traveler's going. If more alarms go off,
officers will "refer" the person to law enforcement officials for
further questioning.
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/homepage/story/18923.html
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MORE GREAT MOMENTS IN THE GENERAL LAWS OF MASSACHUSETTS
[Yesterday we ran a Massachusetts law banning blasphemy and other
theocratic offenses. Doug Henwood of the Left Business Observer adds a
few more goodies:
Chapter 272: Section 34. Crime against nature Section 34. Whoever
commits the abominable and detestable crime against nature, either with
mankind or with a beast, shall be punished by imprisonment in the state
prison for not more than twenty years.
Chapter 272: Section 14. Adultery Section 14. A married person who has
sexual intercourse with a person not his spouse or an unmarried person
who has sexual intercourse with a married person shall be guilty of
adultery and shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for
not more than three years or in jail for not more than two years or by a
fine of not more than five hundred dollars.
Chapter 272: Section 18. Fornication Section 18. Whoever commits
fornication shall be punished by imprisonment for not more than three
months or by a fine of not more than thirty dollars.
http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/
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IF YOU'RE AFRAID OR DISGUSTED AT THE AIRPORT, HOMELAND SECURITY WANTS TO
QUESTION YOU
KAITLIN DIRRIG, MCCLATCHY - Next time you go to the airport, there may
be more eyes on you than you notice. Specially trained security
personnel are watching body language and facial cues of passengers for
signs of bad intentions. The watcher could be the attendant who hands
you the tray for your laptop or the one standing behind the
ticket-checker. Or the one next to the curbside baggage attendant.
They're called behavior detection officers, and they're part of several
recent security upgrades, Transportation Security Administrator Kip
Hawley told an aviation industry group in Washington last month. He
described them as "a wonderful tool to be able to identify and do risk
management prior to somebody coming into the airport or approaching the
crowded checkpoint."
The officers are working in more than a dozen airports already,
according to Paul Ekman, a former professor at the University of
California at San Francisco who has advised Hawley's agency on the
program. . . .
At the heart of the new screening system is a theory that when people
try to conceal their emotions, they reveal their feelings in flashes
that Ekman, a pioneer in the field, calls "micro-expressions." Fear and
disgust are the key ones, he said, because they're associated with
deception.
Behavior detection officers work in pairs. Typically, one officer sizes
up passengers openly while the other seems to be performing a routine
security duty. A passenger who arouses suspicion, whether by
micro-expressions, social interaction or body language gets subtle but
more serious scrutiny.
A behavior specialist may decide to move in to help the suspicious
passenger recover belongings that have passed through the baggage X-ray.
Or he may ask where the traveler's going. If more alarms go off,
officers will "refer" the person to law enforcement officials for
further questioning.
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/homepage/story/18923.html
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MORE GREAT MOMENTS IN THE GENERAL LAWS OF MASSACHUSETTS
[Yesterday we ran a Massachusetts law banning blasphemy and other
theocratic offenses. Doug Henwood of the Left Business Observer adds a
few more goodies:
Chapter 272: Section 34. Crime against nature Section 34. Whoever
commits the abominable and detestable crime against nature, either with
mankind or with a beast, shall be punished by imprisonment in the state
prison for not more than twenty years.
Chapter 272: Section 14. Adultery Section 14. A married person who has
sexual intercourse with a person not his spouse or an unmarried person
who has sexual intercourse with a married person shall be guilty of
adultery and shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for
not more than three years or in jail for not more than two years or by a
fine of not more than five hundred dollars.
Chapter 272: Section 18. Fornication Section 18. Whoever commits
fornication shall be punished by imprisonment for not more than three
months or by a fine of not more than thirty dollars.
http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/
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