TSA Thugs Go After Bloggers for Over Directive to Increase Security

Bloggers beware! The laptop of travel bloggers Steve Frischling and Chris Elliott have been confiscated by the federal government, most specifically the Transportation Security Administration. After the Flight 253 incident, the bloggers wrote of the TSA's directive to increase security. The government is demanding the two bloggers reveal who leaked the security directive to them.

Frischling explained to the AP, "It literally showed up in my box. I do not know who it came from." He said he provided the agents a signed statement to that effect.

The directive went out on the same day of the attempted attack. IT'S AMAZING HOW GOVERNMENT IS SO SLOW TO DO EVERYTHING EXCEPT ROB AMERICANS OF MORE RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS. Remember how quickly the Patriot Act came to be?

The directive outlined the new security measures that went into effect on the same day as the attempted bombing. It including new techniques including more frisking of the upper legs and torso, physically inspecting all passenger belongings, looking closer at powders and liquids, and requiring all passengers to stay in their seats one hour before landing while disabling all on board communications including communications provided by the airplane.

That last one is very peculiar when you think of 9/11 and Flight 93 whose passengers used the planes phones to call their homes and media outlets to explain what was happening on board. Why would the government want to silent the phones on the plane? So many strange things continue to surface because of Flight 253. We know from witnesses accounts, like Kurt and Lori Haskell, some strange things occurred from the gates at Amsterdam all the way to exiting the plane in Detroit.

Now, was this a matter of national security? It doesn't seem like it to me, but it does show the government is watching the blogs and they are ready to silence us at a moment's notice and prepared to confiscate the tools of the trade--our computers.