Are you the type to complain about government policies? Do you plan on complaining when you are at the airport? Do you plan to opt out? Can the TSA and/or Behavior Detection Officers (BDO) determine if you’re arrogant? If you can answer yes to any of these, you’re probably more likely to be harassed by the TSA and BDOs.

Even though SPOT doesn’t work, they’re still going to expand it further, wasting millions more taxpayer dollars.

Thirty-nine percent of the 1,083 people arrested during the first four and a half years of the program were arrested because they were illegal aliens, according to the Government Accountability Office.

This is an incredibly small number and, if you take into account that SPOT is supposed to catch terrorists, it presents an even bleaker picture. The program is a failure that continues to receive government funding with no scientific evidence that it even works.

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.

It reads: “Very arrogant and expresses contempt against airport passenger procedures.”

If expressing your rights to freedom of expression is going to get you extra scrutiny, then your “enhanced” screening is punitive and not legal.

“Expressing your contempt about airport procedures — that’s a First Amendment-protected right,” said Michael German, a former FBI agent who now works as legal counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union. “We all have the right to express our views, and particularly in a situation where the government is demanding the ability to search you.”

“It’s circular reasoning where, you know, I’m going to ask someone to surrender their rights; if they refuse, that’s evidence that I need to take their rights away from them. And it’s simply inappropriate,” he said.

Welcome to America folks. If you’re a foreigner, please choose another country to visit until we can straighten things out and return to normalcy.

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