George Orwell was an optimist.
Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.
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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And Congress sits idly by, like the band that played on the deck of the Titanic as she went down.
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I want to know WHICH DAY HOMELAND SECURITY IS NOT WATCHFUL.
Those musicians were heroes, providing whatever solace they could in that chaos whereas our Congress of predominantly criminals, along with the rest of the government, elected and unelected, is purposely sinking our ship.
Failure to keep yourself clean is frequently symptomatic of severe disorientation ~ possibly even brain damage.
This woman is already into the "blue glove" thing!
The pilot’s brother airline employees should walk out.
George Orwell was an optimist.
I know about Canada harbouring draft dodgers 'way back when, and I'm aware that I'm alluding to something that sets most everyone's teeth on edge, but Canada has had no Third-Worldesque crackdown of that sort. Security is reasonable; there's no security theatre. There's never been a successful terrorist attack on Canada's soil. There was a terrorist plot in my home town of Toronto in '06, but it was foiled.
The most Freeper-friendly province in Canada is Alberta. They don't go much for hippies there.
>>”George Orwell was an optimist. “<<
You aren’t the first to say it.
Ironic...isn’t it..people on this site want this guy freed, but they want to lynch the guy who leaked all of those Wikileak documents...
That’s because there is nothing in Canada worth blowing up! I mean, come on, It’s a second rate country with lousy health care, and they go around saying things like “a-boot.” In fact, the only thing that I have to give Canada kudos for is Dorthoy Stratten....
Ha-ha, small step above mall cops! I know two TSA agents. One was a car salesman, another was a PC repair guy. I feel safer with mall cops.
He did it so the average schmuck out there feeling warm and fuzzy about having their private parts groped in the name of "security" would realize that there isn't any--or so the danged gaps in the security cordon would be closed, and did so, not expecting a medal, even if he didn't expect the repercussions he's getting.
No organization wants to hear where it is screwing up. None.
In six months, the enhancement of security in airports will be announced, after the fact, and the muckity mucks will take credit while this guy will have been shat upon.
Wikileaks is another ball game, dealing with known classified documents.
Those (and there are some here) who think this pilot should be shot, would rather kill the messenger than deal with the problems he talks about.
Like Elian Gonzales, Waco, and Terri Shaivo ....
And the sheeple love their sleep...
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I have been wondering if I should lay plans to get a Canadian passport and my daughter could become a Canadian citizen if she wished. Only hubby is an American. All my relatives are up there. I might need to get going on that.
Americans have no rights, they have become slaves, and illegals have more rights than they do.
TSA is nothing more than a jobs program for the chronically unemployed.
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