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.
If you're standing there quietly trying not to draw attention to yourself, you might be trying to hide something. If you are drawing attention to yourself, you might be doing so to try to hide something.
But one addresses passengers' attitudes towards security, and how they express those attitudes.
It reads: "Very arrogant and
This alone ought to invalidate this "indicator".
TSA officials declined to comment on the list of indicators, but said that no single indicator, taken by itself, is ever used to identify travelers as potentially high-risk passengers. Travelers must exhibit several indicators before behavior detection officers steer them to more thorough screening.
So what happens if a muslim starts complaining loudly about the procedures? Probably the same thing, but they'd be more discreet about it.