You might be considered a terrorist if: The Air Marshall on your flight needs to meet his quota.

You could be on a secret government database or watch list for simply taking a picture on an airplane. Some federal air marshals say they're reporting your actions to meet a quota, even though some top officials deny it.

The air marshals, whose identities are being concealed, told 7NEWS that they're required to submit at least one report a month. If they don't, there's no raise, no bonus, no awards and no special assignments.

"Innocent passengers are being entered into an international intelligence database as suspicious persons, acting in a suspicious manner on an aircraft ... and they did nothing wrong," said one federal air marshal.

These unknowing passengers who are doing nothing wrong are landing in a secret government document called a Surveillance Detection Report, or SDR. Air marshals told 7NEWS that managers in Las Vegas created and continue to maintain this potentially dangerous quota system.

"Do these reports have real life impacts on the people who are identified as potential terrorists?" 7NEWS Investigator Tony Kovaleski asked.

"Absolutely," a federal air marshal replied.

This my friends is your tax dollars at work. So what suspicious behavior did you engage in on your last flight? Did you type on a laptop? Did you stay awake through an eight hour flight? Did you try to use the bathroom right before the landing? Are you on a watchlist somewhere?

You know I had a boss that said "bullshit flows downhill". In other words if the boss gets yelled at then he is going to be yelling at the guy that works directly under him and so on, and so on, and so on.

Well apparently stupidity runs downhill as well. So if your President is an idiot, then he rains ignorance down on all of those that work beneath him.

But take heart. The Republican's new ad campaigns assure us that they are keeping us safer. So the question to ask yourself is, how much of an idiot are you?