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December 24, 2010
Airline Pilot Punished for Exposing TSA in YouTube Video
An airline pilot is being disciplined by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) for posting video on YouTube pointing out what he believes are serious flaws in airport security.
"The TSA message was, 'You've angered us by telling the truth.'"
SACRAMENTO, CA - An airline pilot is being disciplined by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) for posting video on YouTube pointing out what he believes are serious flaws in airport security.
The 50-year-old pilot, who lives outside Sacramento, asked that neither he nor his airline be identified. He has worked for the airline for more than a decade and was deputized by the TSA to carry a gun in the cockpit.
He is also a helicopter test pilot in the Army Reserve and flew missions for the United Nations in Macedonia.
Three days after he posted a series of six video clips recorded with a cell phone camera at San Francisco International Airport, four federal air marshals and two sheriff's deputies arrived at his house to confiscate his federally-issued firearm. The pilot recorded that event as well and provided all the video to News10.
At the same time as the federal marshals took the pilot's gun, a deputy sheriff asked him to surrender his state-issued permit to carry a concealed weapon.
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And this from FOX News, where they interview the pilot and his attornery:
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Wild Thing's comment........
God forbid you point to any error of this socialist/affirmative action obama and his administration or anyone connected to it. And if they are made because he put if on YouTube, they are wrong about that too. Terrorists already know the secruity flaws in an airport.
They used intimidation, goodo grief ithey searched the pilots home????!!! . The next guy who sees something will be less eager to say so probably and that is just what they want to happen.
This man may well have saved lives. I thank him for his bravery and sense of honor.
Posted by Wild Thing at December 24, 2010 04:48 AM
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You run afoul of the TSA and they're coming after you. They even got the county sheriff to revoke his CCW permit.
Posted by: BobF at December 24, 2010 08:58 AM
Govt. bullying. This is the state of intimidation we live in now. Our freedoms under the Bill of Rights are past the point of jeopardy and are now being denied.
Keep buying ammo.
Posted by: TomR,armed in Texas at December 24, 2010 10:49 AM
Bob, amazing isn't it, how they will take control like this and so fast.
Tom, bullying is the perfect word for what this is.
Posted by: Wild Thing at December 24, 2010 11:58 PM
