That's my take as well. Any time these Muzzie apologists resort to that tactic, you know something is behind it.
I feel for the guy who wrote the email, even this article states, “They immediately initiated a campaign to discredit and ridicule the writer, who actually had the audacity to speak boldly about the escalating fear and anger on the flight”.
It sounds to me like a case of, “You work for the Government and when the Government tells you, ‘shut-up or you lose your job”, what do you do in this economy?