pilot punished for YouTube video

Although I wouldn't have posted the video myself, I can't think of anything in the video that I would consider sensitive security information.

I also cannot think of anything in the video that the TSA would even consider SSI. The axe? Is that really a secret?

It's also been rehashed in editorials, articles, and news reports about how cleaners, caterers, etc. do not go through security yet flight crews do. So, that's not SSI either, if we assume that the TSA would have gone after dozens of employees and news media workers by now if it was.

The news anchor said it just right at the end. Yet another person has effortlessly exposed a bunch of security flaws and made the TSA look dumb, which as an organization, is accurate.

Someday maybe we will have airport security in the USA.
 
I sure hope this guys attorney is a good one. He exposed nothing that isn't common knowledge, or can easily be accessed by millions of people. And six people to take away his fire arm? Taking away his Concealed permit? Really? This guy has done nothing but point out the already known truth.
 
Never ceases to amaze me the energy put into covering up the truth sometimes. I'm not sure about the legalities of surrendering the permit but they would have had to have a very compelling reason and right to confiscate my personal firearm.
 
Every airport employee knows how lacking the security really as. As a former ramper I know of many ways that airport security is, well not really secure and how you could have gotten many bad things onto an airplane that is "secure." The TSA is just angry that this pilot pointed it out to the rest of the world.
 
Max1594 said:
Do TSA agents go through security when their shift starts?
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I followed one from their car to the checkpoint once a few months ago.

Just so happened I was taking the same path into the airport from my parking spot across from the guy.

I made it all the way to the checkpoint behind him and he did go through the metal detector, it beeped, and then he continued walking towards their break room to put his lunchbox and other belongings away before presumably starting his shift.

So, yes, he went through security. And he could have had a dagger attached to each leg because nobody checked to see what the metal on him was.

I've seen this quite a few other times as well. Crazy isn't it.
 
Nick said:
I followed one from their car to the checkpoint once a few months ago.

Just so happened I was taking the same path into the airport from my parking spot across from the guy.

I made it all the way to the checkpoint behind him and he did go through the metal detector, it beeped, and then he continued walking towards their break room to put his lunchbox and other belongings away before presumably starting his shift.

So, yes, he went through security. And he could have had a dagger attached to each leg because nobody checked to see what the metal on him was.

I've seen this quite a few other times as well. Crazy isn't it.
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Well duuuuuuhhhh! They are the security of the airport.

[video=youtube;7hkcZilKChI]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hkcZilKChI[/video]
 
This reminds me of the news stories I've heard where they find lapses in airport security. He should have let the news reporters do their job and not do their job for them. What a way to loose your gun and nice job for pointing out the crash axe. Don't want to leave without it!
 
The hypocrisy will continue as long as there's money in it.

Confiscating fluids? Makes people buy stuff in the airport. "Your turkey sandwich and bottle of soda are clearly terrorist weapons, sir. Go buy new ones in the food court. Nevermind that we didn't screen those, but hey, whatever."

Not to mention the backscatter machines, uniforms, equipment, etc. Fear is being used as an excuse to bilk the tax payers out of mad cash. Without oversight, we're all getting boned here.
 
CcrlR737AMT said:
This reminds me of the news stories I've heard where they find lapses in airport security. He should have let the news reporters do their job and not do their job for them. What a way to loose your gun and nice job for pointing out the crash axe. Don't want to leave without it!
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I have a feeling he knew exactly what could happen as a result of posting the video. Chances are, he didn't care about keeping the gun. Besides -- the long term security improvements that could occur after public outrage resulting from his video would do a LOT more to improve safety than his single gun would. The gun can't stop a bomb placed in the wheel well in, say, CLT, on a flight going to, say, BOS.
 
The director of the FAMS used to give out more SSI about Air Marshals on a regular basis. When I was an active Air Marshal, I always was amazed when I watched the wheelchair pushers (all of them between 18 and 40 of Arab decent, but I'm sure they were all upstanding citizens) would pass though the same security doors as we did. Yet Pilots had to go through the security lines.

Sending six people to the guys house is typical TSA bullying, and I bet they were all supervisory staff, not line FAMs
 
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