Don’t Cross Big Sis: Agents Raid Home of Pilot Critical of TSA (Video)
Posted by Jim Hoft on Saturday, December 25, 2010, 7:25 AM
A Sacramento-area airline pilot and helicopter test pilot in the Army Reserve is in hot water with TSA for posting videos on YouTube pointing out what he believes are serious flaws in airport security.
Big Sis Was Not Pleased… She Sent Agents to Raid His Home–
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1341390/Pilot-punished-pointing-San-Francisco-International-Airport-security-flaws-YouTube-videos-showing-TSA-shortcomings.html#ixzz198Mlj0UN
News 10 reported:
An airline pilot is being disciplined by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) for posting video on YouTube pointing out what he believes are serious flaws in airport security.
The 50-year-old pilot, who lives outside Sacramento, asked that neither he nor his airline be identified. He has worked for the airline for more than a decade and was deputized by the TSA to carry a gun in the cockpit.
He is also a helicopter test pilot in the Army Reserve and flew missions for the United Nations in Macedonia.
Three days after he posted a series of six video clips recorded with a cell phone camera at San Francisco International Airport, four federal air marshals and two sheriff’s deputies arrived at his house to confiscate his federally-issued firearm. The pilot recorded that event as well and provided all the video to News10.
PEJMAN YOUSEFZADEH added this, via Instapundit : “In a sane world, of course, higher-ups at the TSA, and at the Department of Homeland Security would be forced to answer for the huge security lapses documented in the pilot’s video. But we do not live in a sane world.”
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ant commented:
If only he was a member of NAMBLA or belonged to a hate-spewing muslim mosque. He’d be in the clear. I’d like to take this opportunity to, once again, thank the 53% of the American electorate that insisted on showing us what tyranny looks like.
Ginger commented:
I bet the tv station is being threatened now! Keep the story going tv station do not let the pilot down or us! We have to keep the pressure on the dictatorship for the next two years and the 53% who voted for the fraud had better wake up. btw….a lot of them voted 5-6 times, the dead came out of their grave site and voted, even dogs, cats, you name it.
Every one needs to watch the SEIU, UAW, etc, and report them when you see something wrong when they start their signing up people to vote. We have a lot of illegal muslims and mexicans they can sign up.
jim m commented:
No surprises that this is happening.
I work in a facility that uses a small amount of radioactive isotopes. The security around that radiation source is ridiculous, bordering on the farcical. But if I were to speak to anyone about those security precautions I would be in violation of my security clearance and I could lose my job and be reported to the FBI as a potential terrorist threat.
So any criticism of the sometimes goofy security measures is impossible. The penalty for discussing them publicly is so severe that no one working there could afford to speak out. Because, in reality criticism of the security measures is criticism of the government and THAT is not to be allowed under any circumstances.
Bill Mitchell commented:
Liberalism is so non-liberty. I guess that’s why they don’t call it “Libertyism”. I guess what it really means that the government is liberal with your liberties.
ebayer commented:
Wikileaks commits no crime for revealing National Security secrets,but this pilot does?
Julian Assange cannot be punished for his role,but this pilot can be?
befuddled commented:
another federally created agency that keeps grabbing and overeaching their power structure. shocked, shocked i am. should’ve known this was coming down the pipe. we should’ve secured the airplane doors and put federal marshalls on board flights and been done. we need to get rid of this homeland fiasco farce.
Jim commented:
Welcome to Nazi America -
Chisum commented:
This was supposedly written for and sung at a US Department of Justice, Office of Legal Counsel Christmas party during the Carter administration; please let me know if you have a more precise attribution:
You’d better watch out,
You’d better not cry,
You’d better not pout;
I’m telling you why.
Santa Claus is tapping
Your phone.
He’s bugging your room,
He’s reading your mail,
He’s keeping a file
And running a tail.
Santa Claus is tapping
Your phone.
He hears you in the bedroom,
Surveills you out of doors,
And if that doesn’t get the goods,
Then he’ll use provocateurs.
So–you mustn’t assume
That you are secure.
On Christmas Eve
He’ll kick in your door.
Santa Claus is tapping
Your phone.
http://volokh.com/2010/12/25/how-does-he-know-when-youve-been-bad-or-good/
Swifty commented:
Give big Sis a break. She is just introducing her new “See something, don’t say anything” program.
The Elector of Saxony commented:
This administration wants to read terrorists their Miranda rights, but they’ll send the stormtroopers in with a (certainly) trumped up warrant essentially to roust this good citizen?
Funny that the supposed Fascist, GW Bush never sent the troops around to visit the New York Times, who printed classified military secrets, or to CNN who broadcast classified combat video, but let a serviceman-citizen exercise his 1st amendment rights (you remember, the ones the Communists used to revere in the 1950′s when they were being charged for their Anti-American activities?), and the Alien, Post-American President sends the jackbooted thugs around. Funny how Fascism only troubles the Left until they control the stormtroopers.
We better start supporting the so-called “birthers” and demand the real birth certificate. Otherwise, can we trust a man who has hidden his entire record from the public, has no problem circumventing the Constitution to impose his agenda, and has little regard for the traditions and institutions of our great Nation (in my view because he isn’t one of us), to respect the next election? ..or the one after that? If he thinks the Constitution grants Congress the power to regulate the healthcare decisions of every American, and grants him the right to impose crippling energy restrictions on the country by fiat, why should we think he’ll go when we kick him out? Better get a a judge to do it and let the non-Whites riot for a few weeks than to wake up one morning and realize Hussein has named himself Chancellor for Life!
Iconoclast commented:
Oddly enough, I was in Logan Airport (Boston, departure site for some of the 9-11 terrorists) roughly six weeks after 9-11 and observed many of the same situations as I waited for my flight to be called. Not to mention the “no-speeka-da-inglish” security which was still in place before being replaced by the equally dense & incompetent, but much more highly paid, TSA drones. This has never been about security, but rather selling the illusion of it to the traveling public. About all which has been accomplished in 9.5 years has been to ensure planes probably can’t be hijacked while making life miserable for all fliers and guaranteeing employment for mall cop failures.
savage24 commented:
Big Sis said that if you see something wrong report it. She forgot to tell you that is only for Walmant shoppers. Remember it’s only about one more step to the police state the loony liberals want.
Rock commented:
This is our future, no mass arrest just highly publicized arrest of people who Big Sis and her tribe decide to label as terrorist. Who will come forth and demonstrate in the streets for him or others that follow, no one, and the end result is we end up a nation of quivering gutless silent majority buffoons fearful of the next knock at the door. We have been betrayed by our own government and lack the will to make a stand as a nation.
A group of supposed Islam blacks shouts raciest attacks at Americans on Christmas Day, any arrest no, but a pilot who spoke out about security concerns, home is raided by Government agents.
A raciest like Sharpton with a history of raciest speech seeks to use the FCC to shut down Conservative media broadcasters, and Eric Holder is silent.
The FCC goes around Congress and the Supreme Court, to take government control of the internet and the nation is for the most silent.
Eric Holder and his raciest Justice Department ignores voter intimidation by The Black Panthers and does nothing, when members of this same group call for the killing of whites and their babies the American people and Holder are hopelessly silent.
When some derange person attacks others he will be labeled as a Conservative Terrorist regardless of his leanings. Yet, obvious terrorist are labeled as man made disasters.
Returning American Veterans are singled out as possible Terrorist, and yet again real Terrorist are nothing more than Man Made Disasters, where is the public outrage.
Christmas, Christians and fath are openly belittled by those in office and some schools, and no one pays the price politically or in the work place.
Of course I do not direct my comments to readers of GP, but look around your neighborhoods, work places, church’s are those there as vocal as the readers here, I suspect not. The concept of it will not happen to me ,is a death sentence to all of our freedoms.
Henry Hawkins commented:
Having once worked for state and local government for about 20 years, I can tell you this is only superficially about national security. What this is about is whistleblowing. We see this time and time again, no matter what branch of government, no matter what the topic or issue, no matter what level of government, from the top of the federal agencies down to the bottom of the local county, township, and precinct governments. The issue here is whistleblowing. It makes no difference how right the whistleblower is nor how much money, time, or life the whistleblower saves, after all is said and done, one way or another, government whistleblowers are not tolerated and will be taken down, sooner or later and often immediately.
Gary Gross commented:
I wrote here that this administration will be known more for its intimidation tactics & incompetence than for their national security policies:
http://www.letfreedomringblog.com/?p=9294
AuntieMadder commented:
The Elector of Saxony #10: Hear here!
zjxnrgjewb3jub commented:
I think the conservative bloggers are over reacting to this story. If you want people to take you seriously you have to be reasonable. I don’t have any criticism for the pilot publicizing his views on airline security. At the same time I don’t see how he can keep his assignment and gun in the federal program when he is publicizing security flaws.
A splashy headline calling it a “raid” when they only come to take is gun is not actually helping to keep the public well informed. Criticizing the government for lax security is fair but criticizing them for removing someone from a security program because they publicized security lapses is not. They have to have rules and it is entirely reasonable to disallow security agents from publicizing security procedures.
Why do you criticize wikileaks but not this pilot?
Iconoclast commented:
I see from #17 there is now WiFi access under bridges.
AuntieMadder commented:
zjxnrgjewb3jub: You keyed in all of that text but all I read was, “Blah blah blah. I’m a filthy libtard.”
MalcomXcrement commented:
Big Sis is a politician. She isn’t fit for her job. And the U.S. is being made into a LAUGHINGSTOCK. GO AWAY Big Sis.