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As a former JFK terminal 2/3 employee I can tell you for a FACT that this pilot is exposing a SERIOUS flaw not just at his airport but possibly system wide.

Baggage handlers, maintenance personal are NOT screened through TSA checkpoints.

I would start my day by going into a separate legit maintenance entrance - not a TSA checkpoint. Getting ready for work. Then walking up into the passenger terminal (sterile area) or ramp. We could go anywhere we wanted in the airport just off the street. We had full access to ramps, planes, tugs(the baggage vehicles) jetways, jetway stairs, sterile areas.

My co workers even brought their own "tools" to work. Like switchblades and various large and small utility knives. I basically felt that anyone of them or I could of easily brought in anything to take out a plane, person, or plot with one or two other people to do something evil.

You may be thinking that we are pre-screened. Yes, we kinda-sorta are but it's not hard to get an ID. Have you seen who works at the terminals? I'm not going to lie, 75% of the people are unemployable and they look and act like criminals. Everyone basically gets paid 7.75 - 15 dollars an hour with little or no benifits. What quality people are you going to get for that?

Interesting Example: If I was on the non sterile side and I needed to be on in the sterile are or the opposite side of the terminal. I would have two options 1)go through the TSA checkpoint and go through that hassle or easily walk back through a maintenance door. I could of brought anything I wanted in. Could of passed anything to a passenger. It was a bit scary

Side note: We all hated TSA. (Hated is an understatement). They love the small amount of power they have at the checkpoints and baggage screening rooms. They love pretending they are real enforcement officers.

"The feds ended up seizing his firearm - which he had been allowed to carry into the cockpit. And the local sheriff's department ended up revoking his concealed weapons permit."

This kind of reaction from government is very normal in any communist states such as China, Cuba, and Vietnam.

American government nowadays tends to hate whoever dares to speak out the truth.

Should Obama and the big sis from TSA read this news?

Was the firearm his property or did the TSA issue it to him?
Was his carry license contingent on his being a pilot?
I could not get a carry license they only issue them in my state to the elite guard.

Did this man choose of his own free will, to sign a nondisclosure agreement when he chose to take a job that pays him far less then he is worth?

This many made many compromises of his OWN liberty and he has gotten what he has chosen to get.

IS the TSA a out of control branch of the Federal Government YES> Because we choose things other then liberty and it is all of our fault.
We cant blame snakes for being snakes we choose to trust them and snakes bite they MUST its in there nature.
HE knew he was working for snakes he should not be shocked that he has gotten bitten.

"And so we try to address those concerns in every way possible, recognizing, again, in the final analysis, everybody on that flight wants to be assured with the highest level of confidence that everybody else on that flight has been properly screened, and including me and you and everybody.

I particularly recognize that reasonable people can disagree as to what that proper balance or blend is between privacy and security and safety." ~John Pistole, TSA Administrator.

"If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed." ~Adolph Hitler

"disclosure of sensitive security information."

I may be wrong, but I was under the impression that knowledge of less-stringent security for ground crews was already fairly common. Isn't the TSA just punishing the pilot for showing rather than telling?