The TSA is gonna grope you, and you’d better pretend you like it

CNN has released a list of factors ^{(Daily Mail warning)} that TSA agents use to judge who gets to undergo “enhanced security screenings” (which I assume include being strip-searched, interrogated, and being put under Legilimency), and to probably nobody’s surprise whatsoever …:

Most of the indicators on the list are behaviours which could suggest stress, deception or fear, characteristics likely to be exhibited by potential criminals.

One of the factors reads: 'Very arrogant and expresses contempt against airport passenger procedures.'

You folks are gonna take being groped and questioned about your unmentionables, and you’d better act like it isn’t an utterly pointless and humiliating experience, or you’re gonna regret it.

More than just ludicrous, though, this is also rather infuriating to anyone who thinks about the implications of surrendering even more fundamental rights (freedom of expression, anyone?) in the name of maintaining this fundamentally absurd security theater. (Which, again, even experts declare couldn’t stop a mountain troll from strolling through. Or a celebrity with a pantsfull of razor blades.)

(via The Agitator)