Chronicling the Surveillance Control Grid

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Scott Ritsema
Civics News
November 21, 2008

The American surveillance society is one of the worst in the world. According to Privacy International and the Electronic Privacy Information Center, we are among the nine most “endemic” surveillance societies. The U.S. is supposed to be the beacon of liberty, the example to all the world of what a society of liberty under law ought to look like. But we have become an embarrassment.

Several facets of the surveillance society exist: the police state at the air port, massive biometrics databases of innocents, implantable microchips, secret spy forces, and much more. This report covers just one piece of our massive surveillance society: airports.

Part I: AIRPORTS

You’ve just walked into an airport. Don’t make a joke about a bomb, or you’ll be arrested. Dump out your water before you go through the line. And if you haven’t properly put your personal items in the correct sized zip-lock bags, they will be confiscated.you’ll have to take a sip so that I know that it’s not a bomb…I have to drink my own breast milk?…yes, take a sip, Ma’am.

Is that tooth paste you’re trying to smuggle by? Hand it over. And missy, don’t even think about trying to bring that lip gloss through…that could be a liquid bomb for all we know.

Ma’am, you can’t have that bottle of milk…but it’s for my baby, this is breast milk that I pumped for him…well,

Face it: this is not a free country. The moment you walk into the airport, there are Behavioral Detection Officers examining your “micro-expressions,” attempting to read your emotions for signs of terroristic motives. This practice began all the way back in 2002. It’s called “SPOT”: Screening passengers by Observation Technique. Flying make you anxious? TSA make you mad? You’d better not show it, or you might miss your flight and have to pull your pants down for the TSA agents.

The airport police state is illegitimate on its face. It is immoral and unconstitutional. Our women endure sexual humiliation having to bare their breasts, and our men in wheel chairs have their pants taken off in public, and we simply let it go on as if it’s normal.

But if one is not convinced based on a moral calculation or an appeal to the Fourth Amendment, an argument based on pragmatism is necessary. And the verdict is in: airport “security” does not make us any safer. TSA agents confiscate dangerous water bottles faithfully, while they allow bomb parts and other prohibited items to pass them without a hitch.

You know you’re not living in a free country when there is little to no reaction to the outrageous suggestion that cameras should watch airline passengers from the moment they sit down on the airplane to the moment they get up. That they would actually have the gall to suggest that all passengers should be fitted with shock bracelets should tell us how highly they think of us. We are mere dogs to them.

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