LaTi lists 85 things that might get you on a watch list, if a Halloween G-man spots you in the act:
- Use Google Maps to find your way around a strange city.
- Use Google Maps to view photos of sports stadiums.
- Install online privacy protection software on your personal computer.
- Attempt to shield your computer screen from the view of others.
- Shave your beard, dye your hair or alter your mode of dress.
- Sweat.
- Avoid eye contact.
- Use a cell-phone camera in an airport, train station or shopping mall.
- Seek to work alone or without supervision.
- Appear to be out of place.
- Have bright colored stains on your clothing.
- Be missing any fingers.
- Emit strange odors.
- Travel an "illogical distance" to do your shopping.
- Have someone pick you up from a beauty supply store.
- Act impatient.
- Be nervous.
- Be a new customer from out of town.
- Use a credit card in someone else's name.
- Chant environmental slogans near construction sites.
- Enter a construction site after work hours.
- Rent watercraft for an extended period.
- Make comments involving radical theology.
- Make vague or cryptic warnings.
- Express anti-U.S. sentiments.
- Purchase a quantity of prepaid or disposable cell phones.
- Leave store without preprogramming disposable phones.
- Be overly interested in satellite phones and voice privacy.
- Ask questions about swapping SIM cards in cell phones.
- Ask questions about how phone location can be tracked.
- Rewire cell phone's ringer or backlight.
- Express out-of-place and provocative religious or political sentiments.
- Purchase a police scanner, infrared device or 2-way radio.
- Act impatient.
- Drive a vehicle that appears to be overloaded.
- Depart quickly when seen or approached.
- Be a person "acting suspiciously."
- Make illegible notes on a map.
- Take photos of the Statue of Liberty or other "symbolic targets."
- Overdress for the weather.
- Ask questions in a hobby shop about remote controlled aircraft.
- Demonstrate interest that does not seem genuine.
- Request specific room assignments or locations at a hotel or motel.
- Arrive at a lodging with unusual amounts of luggage.
- Make notes that are illegible to passersby.
- Refuse cleaning service.
- Avoid the lobby of a hotel or motel.
- Remain in your hotel or motel room.
- Leave your hotel for several days, then return.
- Leave behind clothing and toiletry items.
- Park your vehicle in an isolated area.
- Be observed switching a cell phone SIM card.
- Be observed using multiple cell phones.
- Make notes that are illegible to passersby.
- Communicate through a PC game.
- Download "extreme/radical" content.
- Exhibit preoccupation with press coverage of terrorist attacks.
- Wear a backpack when the weather is warm.
- Speak to mall maintenance personnel or security guards.
- Make racist comments.
- Mumble to yourself.
- Pass along any anonymous threats you may receive.
- Discreetly take a photo in a mass transit site.
- Arrive with a group of people and split off from them.
- Demand "identity privacy."
- Appear to endorse the use of violence in support of a cause.
- Make bulk purchases of meals ready to eat.
- Arrive in America from a land where militant Islamic groups operate.
- Take a long absence for religious education or charity work.
- Travel to countries where militant Islam rules.
- Study technical subjects that would aid a terror operation.
- Work in a field that "serves as a cover for preparing for an operation."
- Exhibit ire at global policies of the U.S.
- Balk at providing "complete personal information."
- Provide multiple names on rental car paperwork.
- Receive an unusual number of package deliveries.
- Replace rental property locks without permission.
- Modify your property to conceal storage areas.
- Fail to pay rent for a storage unit in a timely manner.
- Inquire about security systems at your storage facility.
- Place unusual items in storage units or dumpsters.
- Avoid contact with rental facility personnel.
- Access storage facilities an unusual number of times.
- Request deliveries of items directly to a storage unit.
- Be part of a group requesting identical tattoos.
- Request tattoos that could conceal extremist symbols.
- Fly while appearing to be Muslim on September 11 of any year.
anyone doing anything is a "terrorist."