DHS detects threats-body scanner that can read your mind

[katty]

more: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,426485,00.html

Baggage searches are SOOOOOO early-21st century. Homeland Security is now testing the next generation of security screening — a body scanner that can read your mind.

Most preventive screening looks for explosives or metals that pose a threat. But a new system called MALINTENT turns the old school approach on its head. This Orwellian-sounding machine detects the person — not the device — set to wreak havoc and terror.

MALINTENT, the brainchild of the cutting-edge Human Factors division in Homeland Security's

[ReadTomPaine]

1. They had better not put any member of the GOP in front of it.. or this will backfire big time.

BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP WARNING! TERROR AND HAVOC DETECTED!

[Eric J in MN]

2. If someone is nervous, assume he or she is a terrorist.

After all, people who aren't terrorists never feel nervous (sarcasm.)

[hobbit709]

3. The amount of MALINTENT I have for the Sicherdienstheit

has no bounds.

[katty]

4. total Orwell: from the "Human Factors" division

[caraher]

5. What utter bullshit

There's probably a little subroutine that looks for "terrorist" headwear or dark complexion. And don't you dare engage in a fist bump!

[struggle4progress]

6. I think it tries to detect whether you're wearing a "lesbian.com" T-shirt

[ShortnFiery]

7. ROFL, even the illustrious neuro-linguistic programming as well as lie detectors

are so sensitive and subject to error.

BTW don't believe the "eye turn" stuff which can vary on the basis of something as simple as handedness.

:spray: This cracks me up! :P

[That Guy 888]

8. "It was terribly dangerous to let your thoughts wander when you were in any public place..."

"... or within range of a telescreen. The smallest thing could give you away. A nervous tic, an unconscious look of anxiety, a habit of muttering to yourself-anything that carried with it the suggestion of abnormality, of having something to hide. In any case, to wear an improper expression on your face (to look incredulous when a victory was announced, for example) was itself a punishable offense. There was even a word for it in Newspeak: facecrime, it was called. - George Orwell, 1984, Chapter 5

Considering that * is using Korean war-era Chinese torture techniques to get false confessions it wouldn't surprise me that his cronies dream of their party wielding the power of the party in 1984.