Air Marshal National Council warned by TSA whistleblowers of flagrant misuse of Quiet Skies surveillance, noted the surveillance operation appears to be targeting dissent.
Gene Marx
August 16, 2024
Gene Marx
August 16, 2024
The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.
George Orwell
A story broke over the weekend before last that according to TSA whistleblowers former Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard had landed on the TSA terror watch list as part of its Quiet Skies program, which is, purportedly, aimed at protecting American air travelers from domestic terrorists. Stranger still was the timing of Gabbard’s addition to that list. Incredible, but there’s more.
Interurban hiking trail - Bellingham
Before this stunning revelation, my dog Cleo was taking me for our daily drag on an interurban trail when I met another hiker named Brigitte, about my age. She was walking her blind Border Collie, Buster, which was enough of an icebreaker to talk “dog.” I did notice the remnants of a German accent while we exchanged introductions, and abruptly my surname - Marx - moved our chat in more ancestry dot com direction, including her not so fond remembrances of a childhood in East Berlin. Surprisingly, or maybe not so surprisingly, our conversation took an off-ramp toward her current observations of the similarities now in the US with Soviet East Germany.
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As Cleo and Buster settled in, Brigitte recounted growing up under Stasi Zersetzung repression, an East German psychological warfare technique used by state security functionaries to undermine perceived threats to the state. She remembers the harassment and worsening oppression and so many citizens risking being shot by border guards attempting to leave. Fast forward another lifetime, Bridgette is now noticing similarities with US government intrusions and asked if I was scared, because she was. Like a lot of Americans my age I said I was more angry than scared, pissed at the constant political gaslighting, censorship, rigged elections and more, but mostly just incredibly sad for my country.
I could have gone on, with the constant threat of nuclear annihilation keeping me up at nights, but Brigitte’s fear was as tangible as my animosity and we were both navigating the same undercurrent of apprehension.
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I could have gone on, with the constant threat of nuclear annihilation keeping me up at nights, but Brigitte’s fear was as tangible as my animosity and we were both navigating the same undercurrent of apprehension.
Read complete article on Substack.