Chris Matthews Actually Asks if Movie ‘Minority Report’ Could Become Reality to Capture Criminals Ahead of Time
- Posted on July 24, 2012 at 5:19pm by
Jason Howerton
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MSNBC‘s Chris Matthews apparently wants Tom Cruise’s character from the 2002 movie “Minority Report” to help U.S. law enforcement predict the future and make arrests before a crime is committed. Matthews made the outlandish suggestion Monday night as he was discussing the tragic “Dark Knight” shooting in Aurora, Colo. where 12 people were killed and 50 injured.
Talking directly to Dr. Michael Brannon, a forensic psychologist and director at the Institute for Behavioral Sciences and the Law, the “Hardball” host fantasized about a world where people were arrested before they could commit such atrocities.
“You know, I’ve seen — I’m a movie buff, like everybody knows,” Matthews said. “I hope everybody remains a movie buff, to be quite blunt about this, because I love them, the experience of going to a theater.”
Matthews continued: “But here’s the question. I saw a movie called ‘Minority Report.’ Tom Cruise was in it, sci-fi movie that said you can catch people ahead of time. You can find their projection into the future. I know that’s the sci-fi part. Is there any way in real life to figure out a guy like this ahead of time?”
Seemingly surprised by the odd question, Dr. Brannon eventually humored Matthews and answered the question.
“Chris, prediction is very difficult because not a lot of people do these kinds behaviors. In psychology, we talk about the base rate being real low,” Brannon said.
“So we don’t know a lot about these kinds of people. We know in general what increases risk potential and causes people to be more dangerous, but we don’t know specifically what causes someone to do this kind of behavior.”
The doctor also explained that only a small percentage of mentally ill individuals commit attacks as horrifying as the shooter did in Colorado.
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What may be even more disturbing is that real-life “Minority Report” technology is actually being developed by the Department of Homeland Security.
The Future Attribute Screening Technology (FAST) program, which has moved onto stage two of testing, uses a computer program that analyzes a person’s physiological indicators, such as heart rate, and then uses the information to determine whether that individual has “malintent,” the intent to cause harm.
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Comments (89)
WAKEUPUSA2012
Posted on July 24, 2012 at 5:58pmChris thrill up the leg matthews is beyond annoying. Although he doesnt even realize how stupid he is, I would bet our future is going to look more like minority report. Remember the State Depts and Pentagon have been cozy with holywood since the 60s. They plant stuff all over movies. But DARPA and other freak science places say one day there will advertising like in minority report, not on a screen but projected onto a wall and when you walk down the street, it will be on a house or on a car and it follows you. DARPA already admist they are doing that and crazy other stuff. PreCrime might be possible. IDK. But of course when that comes around, we will already be into a hot tyranny. The future is a boot to the face.
(look im wearing a tin foil hat, im crazy) hahahahahah if you only knew
http://vigilantcitizen.com/
Report Post »smokeysmoke
Posted on July 24, 2012 at 6:35pmchris might have slept thru the movie… but in the end, they realized the machine was broken….
Report Post »AvengerK
Posted on July 24, 2012 at 6:50pmYeah..its’ called “Thoughtcrime” Chrissie…it’s not a new concept. George Orwell coined the term. I gather the idea appeals to you Chrissie? Gives you a tingle up your statist leg or that reserved only for Obama speeches?
Report Post »Uranium Wedge
Posted on July 24, 2012 at 7:05pmAs soon as they get the three precogs Chris, I’m sure they will let you know.
Report Post »What a dumbass.
seeker9
Posted on July 24, 2012 at 7:24pmI thought it was a horrible movie and a waste of a good sci fi premise. Seems to me to be similar to profiling. Punishment for something that hasn’t happened just sounds plain creepy. Imagine if the system got politicized.
Report Post »Is it true Sharpton is trying to sell CM a bridge?
Baddoggy
Posted on July 24, 2012 at 7:42pmChris…Dont look now but your absolute stupidity is showing…Oh wait, thats an ongoing deal…
Report Post »DEMOCRATS.ARE.EVIL
Posted on July 24, 2012 at 8:04pmI wonder if his wife gets jealous.
Report Post »mensa141
Posted on July 24, 2012 at 8:36pmIt is true. We can determine if you are going to commit a crime before the fact. Chris’ name is on the list!
Report Post »ericsez
Posted on July 24, 2012 at 5:56pmas chris‘s dream of being obama’s guardian, spokesman, savior and lover fades his madness becomes more acute. looking to a mediocre movie for a solution to a crime or an unqualified dolt president for utopia are both symptomatic of emerging psychotic delusions. lucky for chrissy that he works at msnbc wherein his behavior is within the norm…………
Report Post »MeteoricLimbo
Posted on July 24, 2012 at 5:54pmProfiling at its best.
Report Post »Bill Rowland
Posted on July 25, 2012 at 6:15amI considered doing away with the entire crew at MSNBC but decided it wasn’t worth the effort. They will sink themselves with stupid comments like this, and thrills up their legs. The whole group is so blatantly left wing that they are laughable when they claim to present an unbiased news broadcast.
OMG Nov 6, 2012
Report Post »KangarooJack
Posted on July 24, 2012 at 5:54pmIt’s really a good movie. Obviously, Mr. Matthews DIDN’T WATCH THE SAME MOVIE as most people…he only saw what his brain could wrap around. Didn’t comprehend the entire MEANING of the movie.
Report Post »Micmac
Posted on July 24, 2012 at 5:53pmWith the move towards thought police it isn’t necessary.
NoBama > NoBama
Report Post »SCREW-WINDOWS
Posted on July 24, 2012 at 6:32pmFZ did that tune in the late 60′s it was called who are the brain police .
Report Post »https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0QP4pdfK7w
scuba13
Posted on July 24, 2012 at 5:50pmI predict that Chris Matthews will sat something completely ignorant and idiotic by the middle of next month.
Report Post »The-Monk
Posted on July 24, 2012 at 6:07pm@scuba13
Too late. He just got through doing exactly that between 5 and 6 pm EST.
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on July 24, 2012 at 6:08pmI could do it at the airport and save everyone a lot of time and trouble Chris…but I know you would’t approve.
Report Post »MaddieT
Posted on July 24, 2012 at 5:48pmPatrick Fitzgerald, the Chicago Prosecutor, did the Pre emptive arrest thing with Ron Blagoyovitch, “Blago”. Fitzgerald said a after wirtetapping Blago in 9 different places for 8 years , that he knew Blago was up to “something” , so he arrested him before he could do “something”. Blago is no doing 14 years for it. No proof no nothing, 14 years. Sop Yes Chris, dumb as a rock, mathews, it has already happend. Someone has my desk job, even I know that. One of the women on hte jury said if she knew Blago was going to get 14 years she would not have found him guilty, huh? Remind me never to get arrested in Chicago.
Report Post »Rickfromillinois
Posted on July 24, 2012 at 6:28pmBlago was convicted of trying to sell the Senate seat vacated by Obama. Blago’s entire career was based on Chicago politics. His father-in-law was city councilman. He was a slimy little sleazebag and got what he deserved.
Report Post »cookcountypatriot
Posted on July 24, 2012 at 5:44pmmy god is this guilty white progressive slave an arsehole………………chrissy the residue of that thrill up your leggs must stink by now
Report Post »watersRpeople
Posted on July 24, 2012 at 5:44pmAwesome, so then people by the thousands will be locked up as their heart rate goes up just because they don’t like getting watched. What about if people’s heart-rate climbs and they get the coffee sweats? It’s prison for you!
Report Post »Displacedsoutherner
Posted on July 24, 2012 at 11:13pmAh, the Starbucks Defense, I can hear it already: “No, no, no, eez not bumb een my underwear, eez only too much infidel caffee. Allah be praised.”
Or maybe your heart rate is up because the jerks in front of you in the security line have 4 kids crawling all over the floor and 12 pieces of carry-on luggage that they’re kicking along the floor after every 20 feet that the line moves. Guilty as charged.
Basing prospective guilt on stress related biometrics makes as much sense at an airport today as it does in the dentist‘s waiting room when you’ve got toothache.
Report Post »TJexcite
Posted on July 24, 2012 at 5:43pmTo stop people before? would that not lead to the need to profiling and as that always leads to racial profiling so says MSNBC. And white people are not profiled no mater so says other talent on MSNBC. Only young black people are even when all they are going out for skittles ant Ice Tea. White Grandmas are profiled so they will not blow up a airplane but to profile the Arab with a one way ticket and no luggage does not as that is racist. Profiling the gang member with tats everywhere would be racist even to prevent the drug crime and gang murder about to happen.
Report Post »ricckky
Posted on July 24, 2012 at 5:42pmIs he still drinking? I thought he went on the WAGON–What a putz—And at one time, 15 years ago, I gave this guy some cred!!!—He is a buffoon now–What happens to these crack pots–why do they turn so koo, koo?
Report Post »GeorgieJo
Posted on July 24, 2012 at 7:02pmChrissie has PBS
pickled brain syndrome
TIPPY O’NEIL is still DEAD Chrissie
what a loser!!!
Report Post »OMG 2012
Chromo200
Posted on July 24, 2012 at 5:40pmBeck had an author on his radio show today and they were talking about his stuff. I believe they are trying it out in Michigan someplace. They scared the poop out of me about how much we have lost our personal freedom. We have given up our freedom to be safe. I figure DHS will be knocking on my door for writing this. On the Radio show they talked about that every email, tweet, and any electronic communication is being scanned for key words.
Report Post »Rothbardian_in_the_Cleve
Posted on July 24, 2012 at 5:37pmV: What makes you think she is a witch?
Report Post »P2: Well, she turned me into a newt!
V: A newt?!
(P2 pause & look around)
P2: I got better.
(pause)
P3: Burn her anyway! (burn her burn her burn!)
(king walks in)
V: There are ways of telling whether she is a witch.
P1: Are there? Well then tell us! (tell us)
V: Tell me… what do you do with witches?
P3: Burn’em! Burn them up! (burn burn burn)
V: What do you burn apart from witches?
P1: More witches! (P2 nudge P1)
(pause)
P3: Wood!
V: So, why do witches burn?
(long pause)
P2: Cuz they’re made of… wood?
V: Gooood.
(crowd congratulates P2)
V: So, how do we tell if she is made of wood?
P1: Build a bridge out of her!
V: Ahh, but can you not also make bridges out of stone?
P1: Oh yeah…
V: Does wood sink in water?
P1: No
P3: No. It floats!
P1: Let’s throw her into the bog! (yeah yeah ya!)
V: What also floats in water?
P1: Bread
P3: Apples
P2: Very small rocks
(V looks annoyed)
P1: Cider
P3: Grape gravy
P1: Cherries
P3: Mud
King: A Duck!
Meyvn
Posted on July 24, 2012 at 5:36pmIf the Lord punished us all ahead of time we’d all be in Hell.
Report Post »marcus_arealius
Posted on July 24, 2012 at 5:47pmIsn’t God punishing us with Matthews and Obama (just to name a few) ?
NO.. God does not meddle with our own creations of hell on earth. It’s up to us to recognize it, and solve the problem(s). Matthews is a pie hole. Obama is the devil from the depths and bowels of hell.
Report Post »HumbleCitizen
Posted on July 24, 2012 at 5:35pmI bet Mr. “Tingle Legs” isn‘t the only person who’d like to get rid of (certain selected) people by accusing those targets of committing a crime that hasn’t happened yet….so long as it does the job of getting rid of those that oppose their total control.
Think of how convenient it would be to bust down your door at 3 am and arrest you for a crime you are “going to commit” sometime in the future and then quietly whisk you off to a FEMA camp for “reeducation” ala Bill Ayers (weather underground terrorist) http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/politics/item/2455-obamas-friend-ayers-kill-25-million-americans.
Report Post »Mikev5
Posted on July 24, 2012 at 5:46pmCastro, Lenin, Hitler and a host of others did the same exact thing gilt by asociation Jews,Gypsies, Blacks all gilty by just being something other than what they wanted you are gilty you are a Jew you must suffer and die.
Wow this is insane
Report Post »DouglassFiller
Posted on July 24, 2012 at 5:35pmI guess he never finished watching it or conveniently forgot the ending and message of the movie.
Report Post »Atrum Angelis
Posted on July 25, 2012 at 2:32pmI was thinking the same thing reading the article. The point of the movie seems to have been forgotten.
Report Post »Meyvn
Posted on July 24, 2012 at 5:34pmGod doesn’t even do such things, what makes you think you should Matthews? And why you would want to is even more baffling. What a COMPLETE MORON.
Report Post »TelepromoterNChief
Posted on July 24, 2012 at 6:08pmChris Matthews fits the profile of a pedophile.
Report Post »The-Monk
Posted on July 24, 2012 at 5:34pmChris Matthews commits the crime of perjury about 5 days a week, every week.
Don’t need Tom Cruise to figure that one out.
Report Post »Rothbardian_in_the_Cleve
Posted on July 24, 2012 at 5:33pmI pledge allegiance to the flag of the People’s Democratic Republic of Amerika…
Can someone tell me what the actual line is for revolution? For example, we had the Intolerable Acts from King George that spawned the birth of our country. I‘d argue we’ve moved well beyond those at this point wouldn’t you?
Heck even the taxation without representation thing is a joke at this point. We are racking up debt to be paid by taxes on salaries that haven‘t been earned by people who haven’t been born yet. Tell me that people born today aren’t being taxed without representation.
I could go on but you get the point. I’d just like to know when we do something. Oh wait, our answer is to send Mit Romney to the White House and John Boehner to the Speaker chair.
Report Post »Twobyfour
Posted on July 24, 2012 at 10:49pmAt this moment, there is no other choice. Writing down someone else won’t do jack.
1. Obama wins. Game over. A the end of his term, the country would be unrecognizable, or gone.
Report Post »2. Romney wins. Use his tenure to get the right people through the House and Senate. Build up the right candidate for the next term.
Mikev5
Posted on July 24, 2012 at 5:33pmChris Matthews is a lunatic at best
Isn’t this exactly what the Nazis did just before WW2 rounding up the Jews wow how history repeats it’s self when people lose their humanity they do very amazingly vile things to other people and call it humane such as death camps
What he is talking about is very scary to think about
Report Post »slvrserfr
Posted on July 24, 2012 at 5:33pmMaybe then we could have warned the country of the epic failure that occupies the Oval Office right now by not voting him in and saving trillions and an oppressive healthcare mandate and economic hardship in the process.
Report Post »thegreatcarnac
Posted on July 24, 2012 at 5:31pmMathews is a complete fool. His fantasy is impossible unless you absolutely know someone is on the way to kill someone else because of a phone tap etc. In most cases….when you arrest someone before the commit a crime…, then you are arresting them for nothing. I think it is a crime that Chris Mathews was NOT aborted. THe clothes hanger sliding into his mother‘s uterus and up his little leg would be the only ’thrill’ the fool would ever get and we would not be listening to his crazy thoughts.
Report Post »BaltimoreJoe
Posted on July 24, 2012 at 5:27pmHe’d better hope not with all that sick stuff rolling around in his noggin.
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on July 24, 2012 at 5:27pmThis is harking back to the time when people were declared criminals or potential criminals just by the looks and features of their bodies and faces; so are we now to further slip into the communist style system of paranoia in which everyone is to be considered a criminal first, foremost and always even when they are not?
Are we heading into the time of ‘you may not be guilty of this incident, but you are guilty of something even if we have to make it up…”
Report Post »Mutiny
Posted on July 24, 2012 at 5:24pmThey are working on it. Even as unConstitutional as it is he would love it. I am sure NDAA Romney would be for it also.
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