Another cross-post. Sorry.

[tlttlotd]

People standing against the TSA's unreasonable search policies are being internally referred to as domestic extremists now.

Oh, hell no.

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[kitten_goddess]

What will they do with the list? Just wave it around and say "We're watching you?" Put all protestors on the "no fly" list?

I can't picture everyone on the list being sent to internment camps or something like that. If that were actually going to happen, Bush would have done something like that a long time ago with all the people involved in the antiwar movement.

(Rumors about FEMA concentration camps for dissenters have been circulating since the Clinton era at least.)

[hasufin]

I wonder how they will differentiate between the "extremists" and people who have a legitimate health concern.

I guess having a skin condition makes me an extremist. For the first time, terrorism is medically diagnosable! Huzzah! We're all saved!

[tlttlotd]

Very Zmyatin.

[cyfis]

I cannot help but question the motivations (and reliability) of the source for that original article, considering it is posted on a site with a counter for "Days Until Obama Leaves Office", and the information boils down to "this unnamed internal source told me..."

[kitten_goddess]

Thanks for reminding me to check the source!

[tlttlotd]

That is why I am hoping someone will leak the document - so we at least have a chance of verifying its veracity.

[darkoshi]

I have this feeling that if a lot of people opt out of the scanners, the security agents may react by moving them over to a separate line and making them wait so long to be processed/patted down that they risk missing their flights, to deter other people from doing the same.