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This guy pointed out the obvious to a pilot, and for danged sure obvious to any terrorist scout or security professional. Like saying water is wet, the sky is blue, the sun shines in the daytime...

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.

Over in the libertarian part of the world, Bill Anderson has speculated that Assange is being punished for having a hand in Climategate.

Lost in all of the shouting about Wikileaks and the arrest of Julian Assange as the imprisonment-torture of Bradley Manning is the fact that a lot of people in power want to pay back Assange for his role in releasing the so-called Climategate emails. These emails detailed how “climate scientists” manipulated data, bullied those who disagreed with their “hockey stick” Algorean world temperature chart, and suppressed good science that contradicted their own work.

Even though the NY Times and other major news outlets ignored these emails (or claimed that they were nothing but irrelevant “noise” and not worth any public discussion), nonetheless the emails still were a blow to the outright authoritarian attempts by governments to further control people. A lot of people in power have been unhappy with Wikileaks for letting the truth spill out regarding “climate change,” and have looked for a way to go after those who have exposed the lies.

Myself, I didn't know that Wikileaks had a hand in releasing the Climategate documents but I can see the reasoning behind Anderson's point.