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Old Mar 27, 2015 | 2:16 pm
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The Checklist: Are You On It?

Published here on FT as a public service. It's only two pages, so it would be easy to take with you. Remember to place it right on top of the bin when you are ordered to empty your pockets.

Heaven help you if you are:

Males 20-40 years old traveling together who are NOT part of a family.
Some tidbits:

The long range three-pointers include:

Asks the BDO security-related questions: not sure if it's three points for each individual security-related question

Appears confused or disoriented

Does not respond to authoritative commands

Maintains covert ties with others (maintaining consistent eye contact with others, exhibiting hand gestures to others or passing objects to others): guess i have to stop checking out the hot women.
But, you lose points if:
Member of family (-2 points)
Apparent married couple with both spouses over 55 (-2 points)
Female over 55 or male over 65 (-1 point)
Nailing just two three-pointers gets you an interrogation by a cop.

It's clear to me that many of the items are non-terrorism law enforcement dragnet-type items and some are purely punitive in nature.

Large amount of cash, suspected unlawful drugs, numerous prepaid calling cards or cellphones, immigration status, outstanding warrants...

And, here's the smoking gun for the name game:

"Unfamiliar with passport/ID or ticket data"

And, there's a place to check whether or not the surveillance camera video is copied.

Of course, all of this presumes that the SPOTNik initiated an interrogation and the victim allowed him/herself to be interrogated in the first place.

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