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WATCHING TV I heard a man saying that if refugees do not love France, then they should not be there.
This reminded me that the number of people being tracked by the security forces are not many; they number a thousand or two.
If these ones were pulled in and given what is called a brain fingerprint, they would quickly know which of them loves France. The others can go. The same in the rest of Europe and in America.
This will not only free up the security forces to track the next layer of suspects, and to test a few of them too, but will also lower defence costs.
Brain fingerprinting is a forensic science technique that uses electroencephalography (EEG) to determine whether specific information is stored in a subject's brain by measuring electrical brainwaves and recording a brain response to words, phrases, or pictures that are presented on a computer screen.
How it works
If a person's brain sees something that it recognises, it shows. The technology has been used in court to convict people who recognise a crime scene.
Check whether they know how to put on a suicide belt, or handle a rifle, etc - anything that a terrorist would have been trained for.
The brain also responds to things that it likes and things that it dislikes in different ways.
Show these guys news reports about ISIS, and the damage they have done and the people they have executed. Do they like that?
If so, they can go. Or they can be detained and questioned further.
This can also be used to screen immigrants and refugees. Those people need a break. They need to be accepted into the community. Passing the test will help a great deal.
And testing them to see if they are being blackmailed into silence about a known terrorist in their midst will protect them, because that terrorist will be found and removed. They will fail the test anyway, so there is no way for them to know they have already been identified, and to take vengeance on anyone based on that assumption.
* Edward Ingram is a leading thinker on the world stage of macro-economic design and has written a series of essays for Fin24. Opinions expressed are his own.
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