Posted on 12/27/2010 5:16:22 PM PST by Kaslin
Terrorism: A pilot who posted a YouTube video documenting flaws in TSA's airport security has his home raided and federally issued firearm confiscated. Body scanners and junk-touching are just the beginning.
Ever watchful all 364 days of the year, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano has discovered a new security threat pilots who fly our planes and have questions about the TSA's security practices and policies.
Three days after a 50-year-old veteran pilot living outside Sacramento, Calif., posted a YouTube video to shed light on the security gaps he believes exist at major U.S. airports, he had his home raided by four federal air marshals and two sheriff deputies, including members of an anti-terrorism task force.
The pilot, who was deputized by the TSA to carry a handgun in the cockpit as a federal flight deck officer (FFDO), had his federally issued firearm and badge confiscated. A follow-up letter from the sheriff's department said his CCW (carry a concealed weapon) permit would be revaluated pending a federal investigation.
Sacramento's ABC TV affiliate News10 reports that the pilot, who has asked that neither his name nor his airline be disclosed pending the investigation, on Nov. 28 posted six video clips taken from a cell phone camera at San Francisco International Airport.
The pilot also provided News10 with video of the confrontation on his driveway, which he recorded on a camera positioned at an upstairs window.
The posted videos showed TSA's current practice of forcing pilots to go through TSA screening while ground crew members who service the aircraft are able to access sensitive areas merely by swiping a card at an unmanned door.
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No less.
I bet this EVIL ANTI-AMERICAN pilot has a birth certificate that is available on demand.
The US is looking more and more like a banana republic when people are jailed and prosecuted for criticizing the government.
The TSA is security theater whose primary mission is to condition Americans to accept heavy-handed government up to and including sexual assault and child molestation. To make us sheep. Nothing more, nothing less.
As effective security, they’re a joke.
That is because we are now a banana republic.
It IS a banana republic, and has been for a while. If you don't believe me, just wait to see what's next coming down the road
. America -- a great idea, didn't last.
No,I think more like Nazi,Germany.
Yeah, how dare he embarass “The Sex Assaulters” and Janet Napoleontano.
You're right ... except that the US has to import bananas.
How F’d up has America become when one well intentioned man identifies weaknesses in our national security and then he is one targeted by the Government as “the problem”?
0bamunism rapidly on the march to full Totalitarian/Communism.
Who wouldda thought a thuggy organization would use it’s power for self-protection? /s
That's a VERY sobering headline! It could have come directly from Gestapo headquarters a few years back.....
Truth is verboten in Bambi’s homosexual atheist Brave New World. The Bible is “hate speech” and heterosexual Conservative white men are all evil oppressors. (They created such a creative, free, magnificent, Godly nation for a majority—they have to die).
Bambi’s recreation of ancient pagan Greece where the masses are serfs and slaves and he lays at tables eating grapes and engaging in orgies. Bambi’s dream of one world utopia and a ‘good’ society.
The puppet is a fascist, but we all knew that.
Whistle blower protection act.............WHERE ART THOU ?
Doesn’t exist if you embarrass The State.
Anyone who thinks American cops/LE people won’t fire upon and in other ways silence their fellow citizens are fools.
Ping
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