Is the TSA fascist?

[agamemnus]

Note: such crapage isn't exclusive among the TSA. You'll find foreign airport security screeners do this too, but not sure if it's codified.

http://www.cnn.com/2011/TRAVEL/04/15...ss_igoogle_cnn

Excerpt:

Washington (CNN) -- Don't like the way airport screeners are doing their job? You might not want to complain too much while standing in line.
Arrogant complaining about airport security is one indicator Transportation Security Administration officers consider when looking for possible criminals and terrorists, CNN has learned exclusively. And, when combined with other behavioral indicators, it could result in a traveler facing additional scrutiny.
CNN has obtained a list of roughly 70 "behavioral indicators" that TSA behavior detection officers use to identify potentially "high risk" passengers at the nation's airports.
Many of the indicators, as characterized in open government reports, are behaviors and appearances that may be indicative of stress, fear or deception. None of them, as the TSA has long said, refer to or suggest race, religion or ethnicity.

I'm sure there has been at least one case where someone complaining about airport security was either a criminal or a terrorist.

[wiggin]

Do you know what the word fascist means?

[Hazir]

I am always extremely neutral and correct while going through security at any airport.

[Nessus]

Do you know what the word fascist means?

Does anyone?

[Lewkowski]

Does anyone?

People debate what fascism means because almost everyone agrees fascism (whatever it is) is bad.

I like to view it as state control over people. In that sense increased TSA intrusion, which includes specific targeting of people complaining about its policies would an example of a fascist action.

[Nessus]

People debate what fascism means because almost everyone agrees fascism (whatever it is) is bad.

That's due to historical reasons rather than actually thinking about it, in a majority of cases.

I like to view it as state control over people.

Taken liberally (heh) enough, that'd mean all policemen, prisons and churches were fascist. If you dilute the definition far enough, the word becomes meaningless. Personally I find it far more interesting to research which churches actually supported fascism, which faction of it and why, for example, rather than out-right calling all religion fascist. And further, I find it more interesting to try and research what active participants of fascism thought about their reasoning on the traditional left-right axis, and so on, rather than calling fascism extreme left or extreme right just to score points in a discussion on current affairs.

[GGT]

http://www.theworldforgotten.com/sho...ll=1#post76110

Go go USA! etc...

[Veldan Rath]

I am always extremely neutral and correct while going through security at any airport.

HA! You must be hiding something! (Gets latex gloves and (maybe) lube)

[agamemnus]

To me, it's a combination of state-control combined with the violent stifling of dissenting speech and actions.

[Catgrrl]

Can't was just say they are all assholes and be done with it?

[agamemnus]

No, we have to fight... for bovine freeeedom!