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Trouble in transit, got through the roadblock
we blended in with the crowd
We got computers, we're tapping phone lines
I know that ain't allowed
We dress like students, we dress like housewives
or in a suit and a tie
I changed my hairstyle so many times now
don't know what I look like!
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~Life During Wartime - Talking Heads
Seems TSA has taken a page from the Israelis' playbook. Thing is, it will probably be implemented looking through the lens of conservative, scared-shitless of the brown men, gung-ho assholes. Republicans and their sycophants, in other words.
Cliff Schecter sees the hazards:
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Got that? Micro-expressions are cause for alarm. A mere flicker. I can see the signs now: "Poker faces advised beyond this point."
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Nooooo, really? Civil liberties? Like they ever counted. And about those different cultures, would that lead to "blink profiling" or "twitch discrimination"? What if you're Middle Eastern with a poker face, but American with a nervous cough? What a challenge, huh? Whew! I don't envy them Face Cops!
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