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TSA Silences Pilot For Telling The Truth
IBD Editorials ^ | December 27. 2010 | Staff

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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TOPICS: Editorial; Foreign Affairs; Government; US: California; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: agenda; bang; dhs; donttouchourjunk; endtimes; gaystapo; homelandsecurity; liberalfascism; lping; napolitano; obama; patdowns; scanners; tsa; tsapervs; tyranny; waronterror
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1 posted on 12/27/2010 5:16:24 PM PST by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin
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.

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No less.

I bet this EVIL ANTI-AMERICAN pilot has a birth certificate that is available on demand.

2 posted on 12/27/2010 5:24:31 PM PST by EGPWS (Trust in God, question everyone else)
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To: Kaslin

The US is looking more and more like a banana republic when people are jailed and prosecuted for criticizing the government.


3 posted on 12/27/2010 5:25:04 PM PST by MeganC (January 20, 2013 - President Sarah Palin)
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To: Kaslin
...as long as it's not about the government.
4 posted on 12/27/2010 5:26:07 PM PST by the invisib1e hand ("Three hostile newspapers are more to be feared than 200 swords" - Napoleon Bonapart)
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To: Kaslin

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.


5 posted on 12/27/2010 5:33:52 PM PST by piytar (0's idea of power: the capacity to inflict unlimited pain and suffering on another human being. 1984)
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To: MeganC

That is because we are now a banana republic.


6 posted on 12/27/2010 5:39:04 PM PST by flyingtabby
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To: MeganC
The US is looking more and more like 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.

7 posted on 12/27/2010 5:41:31 PM PST by Clint Williams (America -- a great idea, didn't last. The only reasonable response to jihad is Crusade.)
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To: MeganC

No,I think more like Nazi,Germany.


8 posted on 12/27/2010 5:45:42 PM PST by taxtruth (Don't end the fed,jail the fed!)
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To: Kaslin

Yeah, how dare he embarass “The Sex Assaulters” and Janet Napoleontano.


9 posted on 12/27/2010 5:45:43 PM PST by Darksheare (I shook hands with Sheryl Crow and all I got was Typhus and a single sheet of toilet paper.)
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To: Kaslin
Wonder how long until we all are mandated to have images of The Dear Leader prominent on our walls.
10 posted on 12/27/2010 5:51:50 PM PST by Darksheare (I shook hands with Sheryl Crow and all I got was Typhus and a single sheet of toilet paper.)
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To: MeganC
The US is looking more and more like a banana republic when people are jailed and prosecuted for criticizing the government.

You're right ... except that the US has to import bananas.

11 posted on 12/27/2010 5:52:03 PM PST by Skepolitic
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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.


12 posted on 12/27/2010 5:55:24 PM PST by R0CK3T
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To: Kaslin

Who wouldda thought a thuggy organization would use it’s power for self-protection? /s


13 posted on 12/27/2010 5:58:20 PM PST by GOPJ
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To: Kaslin
TSA Silences Pilot For Telling The Truth

That's a VERY sobering headline! It could have come directly from Gestapo headquarters a few years back.....

14 posted on 12/27/2010 5:59:43 PM PST by MamaDearest
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To: Kaslin

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.


15 posted on 12/27/2010 6:00:23 PM PST by savagesusie
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To: Kaslin

Whistle blower protection act.............WHERE ART THOU ?


16 posted on 12/27/2010 6:00:27 PM PST by 4Speed
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To: 4Speed

Doesn’t exist if you embarrass The State.


17 posted on 12/27/2010 6:03:27 PM PST by Darksheare (I shook hands with Sheryl Crow and all I got was Typhus and a single sheet of toilet paper.)
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To: Kaslin
As my son, a pilot with a major airline, told the TSA screener (while being hassled IN UNIFORM), “ Why do you go through all of this $hit? My weapon is parked at the Gate!” TSA is the biggest load of crap and only make the loonies feel good. Their actions are a total invasion of privacy and, from the top down, they are only a small step above the Mall Cops...No, make that equal to them. TSA is white collar welfare!
18 posted on 12/27/2010 6:13:34 PM PST by BatGuano (You don't think I'd go into combat with loose change in my pocket, do ya?)
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To: Kaslin

Anyone who thinks American cops/LE people won’t fire upon and in other ways silence their fellow citizens are fools.


19 posted on 12/27/2010 6:15:37 PM PST by ChocChipCookie
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To: Nachum; markomalley; Carlucci; grey_whiskers; meyer; WL-law; Para-Ord.45; 70th Division; ...

Ping


20 posted on 12/27/2010 6:19:06 PM PST by raptor22 (The truth will set us free)
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