Police set up roadblocks to 'voluntarily' collect DNA, blood samples from innocent Americans

[woo me with science]

20. "Candid Camera" illustrated the passivity of "the sheeple" for decades.

I was pleased to see Alan Funt's son, heir to the show, make this political point about TSA groping and naked scanning a while back. It would apply here, too:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704496104575627280155938098.html

(For the TV show, Candid Camera) "With the help and encouragement of airport officials, I posed as a security guard. As passengers entered the boarding area, I examined them and their carry-on bags. I claimed that the metal detector wasn't working properly, and instructed passengers to lie down on the conveyor belt so they could ride through the X-ray machine along with their bags...The "X-ray machine" was a flimsy prop made from a large wooden box with holes cut in each end, placed over a rented conveyor belt. We attached a few blinking lights to the box, along with our version of the classic airport sign: "Everything Said Will be Taken Seriously."

We put 15 passengers through the wooden box that day—too few to be scientific, but instructive nonetheless. All but one passenger, a middle-aged man, willingly laid on the conveyor belt, belly down, and was transported through the box without protest.
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One of the recurrent themes on "Candid Camera" has involved examining many people's mindless obedience in the face of unreasonable demands by authority"...a uniformed guard who says the state of Delaware is "closed for the day," or a cop who tells pedestrians they've entered a "walk backwards zone." Yet I've got a library of footage showing that the public willingly accepts such instruction, time and time again...
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I'm glad to see that many travelers are no longer simply submitting blindly to airport scanners, and are questioning invasive pat-downs. That's actually something worth smiling about."