Sacramento-area pilot punished for YouTube video

[Chris_]

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 pilot's attorney, Don Werno of Santa Ana, said he believed the federal government sent six people to the house to send a message.

"And the message was you've angered us by telling the truth and by showing America that there are major security problems despite the fact that we've spent billions of dollars allegedly to improve airline safety," Werno said.

The pilot said he is not in trouble with his airline, but a supervisor asked him to remove public access to the YouTube videos.

He does, however, face potential civil penalties from the TSA. He said he would likely go public when it becomes clear what the government plans to do with him.

News10/KXTV

[Eupher]

Kinda funny how a single guy posting a series of vids on YouTube can be squashed like a bug, but Assange - who has embarrassed the government for months - gets released from jail on a separate charge altogether than releasing classified documents.

How in the name of Christ can these jokesters possibly think of this guy as being a threat and thereby confiscate his CCW?

Looks to me like the TSA is much more of a threat to the public at large, simply by adopting SS tactics.

What's next? Deportation to a concentration camp?

 

[Evil_Conservative]

What would happen if just us regular citizens would make a video showing the flaws of airport "security"?

[compaqxp]

He's the type of guy they need working on security.

[txradioguy]

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.

http://www.news10.net/news/article.aspx?storyid=113529&provider=top&catid=188

[NHSparky]

First Commandment of the TSA: "Thou shalt not criticize Big Sis."

[Janice]

“I am sick and tired of people who say that if you debate, and you disagree with this administration, somehow you're not patriotic, and we should stand up and say we are Americans, and we have a right to debate and disagree with any administration!”

Hillary Rodham Clinton, 4-28-03

[RightCoast]

“I am sick and tired of people who say that if you debate, and you disagree with this administration, somehow you're not patriotic, and we should stand up and say we are Americans, and we have a right to debate and disagree with any administration!”

Hillary Rodham Clinton, 4-28-03

hi5

[true_blood]

And here we have another example of FAILURE on the part of Big Sis' and the DHS. Surprise, surprise, huh?
I said it before and I'll sat it again, this incompetent imposter administration is a BIG FAILURE from the very top to the very very bottom.