Posted on 12/23/2010 7:15:55 PM PST by Mad Dawgg
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.
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"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."
Government’s a club. His County Sheriff revoke his CCW. He’s not a menace to anyone, but the state.
So we’ve got 500,000 elites running a country of 300,000,000+ as they see fit.
What makes you think so (besides the Drudge headline)?
I've glanced through several articles, even the ones cited by Drudge, and there is no mention of searching his house!
If he was observing or reporting information that only he was aware of due to his position then you would be right...
However, his reporting was from the easily observable public side......
Not only is there a first amendment right to do this, there is a public good component......
If he had disclosed critical sensitive and secret information relative to the TSA operation then the status of “whistleblower” would be a difficult argument....
This pilot just pointed out the obvious from the public side that there have been numerous newspaper articles about yet TSA never fixes....
I am not at all hopeful that our military and law enforcement people will uphold their oaths to defend the Constitution against domestic enemies.
HORRIFIC.
BE SAFE, BRO.
“Normalcy”
will NOT be established until after literal Armageddon.
And the then new “Normalcy” the world has not known since Eden.
There’s a light side to Jihad Janet?
We’re paying millions of dollars for nothing at all. A sham.
Every time the TSA adds another rite of insanity to the aircraft boarding process, the MSM seems to be able to find dozens of cretins at the airport who say "Of course I'll submit to an anal probe from an unsterilized wire brush, if it makes us safer..."
Well we need a major Emperor-Has-No-Clothes moment here, in which the cretins are made aware that none of this TSA s--t does anything whatsoever for safety.
Only then do we have the possibility to start over and get it right.
Did you get a satisfactory explanation of why it was not a vulnerability?
Or did you just take the manager's word for it?
A manager who might lose his job if there was a real security breach?
This is the mindset which this thread is about.
Seeing as the reason for terrorism is to, you know, create terror, and they’ve already done that to a fare thee bloody well, blowing up more planes seems a bit redundant.
That one way is that passengers on a hijacked plane know that their survival is in their own hands....the "authorities" have no power to save them.
The only truly effective means of combating terror is to not let it guide your actions. If someone wants you dead, you will die. That's a grim truth. But allowing that grim truth to guide your actions is to surrender to terror and allow it to win.
Make no mistake, the TSA has only served to legitimize terrorism and victimize American citizens who are now being treated like common criminals merely because they want to travel.
If the TSA were disbanded tomorrow, do you honestly believe planes would start blowing up all across America? Of course they wouldn't. But we'd save a lot of money, and travelers would have their dignity back.
Should I go public with the information? Then I’d be assured they’d fix it right away.
http://archive.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2002/4/22/200136.shtml
Jennifer Flowers
Paula Jones
Jaunita Brodrick
Liz Gracen
The list goes on:
Judicial watch, Larry Klayman, Billy Dale (Travelgate),
The National Rifle Association, The Heritage Foundation, The National Review, The American Spectator, Freedom Alliance, National Center for Public Policy Research, American Policy Center, American Cause, Citizens Against Government Waste, Citizens for Honest Government, Progress and Freedom Foundation, Concerned Women for America and the San Diego Chapter of Christian Coalition.
Even Bill O’Reilly complained he had been repeatedly audited after criticizing Billy boy.
It is outrageous that our government would routinely harass citizens for decent.
What are we becoming, a Soviet style tyrannical dictatorship?
If on the other hand, tens of thousands of the public at large are seeing the security flaw every single day, yep, putting it on YouTube is perfectly OK with me.
You might be done with TSA,,but “homeland security” can do it. That name “Homeland Security” is sounding more like a name that will someday be viewed the way we do “Stasi”, “NKVD”, “Gestapo”, or “SS”.
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