Former Democratic congresswoman and anti-warmonger gadfly Tulsi Gabbard is no terrorist. Yet, the government is treating her like one.
Last November, UncoverDC related the testimony of retired Air Marshal Sonya LaBosco, now executive director of the Air Marshal National Council, which works on behalf of Air Marshals.
LaBosco says that instead of tracking genuine threats, the TSA surveillance programs like Quiet Skies are focusing on political targets, such as those who entered the capitol (or just the capital) on January 6, 2021.
Air marshals are also being diverted to the southern border to perform mission-unrelated tasks like dispensing water.
LaBosco says she’s been getting nowhere with requests for explanations from Homeland Security chief Alejandro Mayorkas and others with oversight of the surveillance programs. Shocker.
Now UncoverDC reports that according to an Air Marshal whistleblower, Tulsi Gabbard has been added to the Quiet Skies program, created to “protect traveling Americans from suspected domestic terrorists.”
Listing Gabbard, who is now accompanied by Air Marshals and other TSA personnel when she flies, certainly appears politically motivated. Marshals “were first assigned to Gabbard on July 23, a day after she criticized Kamala Harris, Biden, and the National Security State in an interview with Laura Ingraham.”
Such targeting of critics is very disturbing. Thanks to UncoverDC’s reporting and LaBosco’s testimony, it does not seem as implausible as it might have been a few years ago. Years of similar opposition-targeting conduct by the Biden administration have helped us accept it, too.
Discussing the surveillance, Gabbard says: “No American deserves to live in fear of our own government.”
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4 replies on “Who’s Afraid of Tulsi Gabbard?”
This action by the TSA is a further illustration of how the US has become a b(an)³a republic. It follows upon actions such as the IRS effort to hobble conservative non-profit organizations, and the lawfare prosecutions of Donald John Trump.
The case of Gabbard will compel the typical leftist to stretch his-or-her disdain for the rights of conservatives and of right-wing populists, to disdain also the rights of leftists who won’t silence their opposition to warfare and to ruthless incarcerations to suit the purposes of the corporate left.
Given the ineptitude of the Secret Service, this might be a back door way of ensuring that she gets competent folks around and protecting her.
“Tis an ill wind that blows nobody any good.”
And this certainly blows.
Tulsi Gabbard is a prominent figure, but what about those parents who attended school board meetings to protest woke curricula? They likely don’t have the resources to fight back against Mayorkas and company.
Tulsi has it backwards, every American, indeed every human, has good reason to fear their government and to strive to keep it under control. It is the eternal battle.