Security

The Transportation Security Administration of the U. S. Department of Homeland Security is now experimenting with a security interview system used in Israeli airports. The pilot program will be started at Boston's Logan International Airport. It entails interviews with every ticket holder. The interviews are meant to eliminate dangerous people from flights by the interviewers implementing nightclub-psychic techniques by which they can determine passenger motives in seconds. On the basis of these "chats" supposedly "free" Americans will be categorized and potentially prevented from boarding an aircraft, despite holding a ticket.

This is Orwell's 1984 actualized.

This new system of harassing travelers comes from a nation which practices religious apartheid with impunity due to the justified international guilt over historic antisemitism. This blatant intrusion into personal privacy is an outgrowth of American paranoia, amplified after 911 by its repressed guilt over two aggressive invasions of countries across the planet, Afghanistan and Iraq. I believe Americans reasonably expect to be targeted due to the violence their government has committed against hundreds of thousands of civilians in war zones. This is rational, but pathetic. The United States government, the most lethal military power in the world, has been reduced to fearfully interviewing every person getting on an aircraft in a major city with the agenda of doing this in every airport in the country.

The problem with our homeland's security is our homeland's dependence on violence to push its political and economic agenda on other nations at the expense of our nation's people. Americans pay an inordinate economic price for this governmental approach. Our economy is in ruins in large part due to the two wars which have brought us to this paranoid sacrifice of our privacy to pseudo-psychologists with badges. This brings Americans one step closer to sacrificing any hope of  true democracy in the U.S.. This is government intrusion, not government service.