It wasn’t just Tulsi Gabbard: The “quiet tyranny” under President Joe Biden saw no-fly lists used to punish countless average Americans. Assistant Editorial Page Editor Brooke Rogers shares this story.
Simply resisting mask mandates was enough to get 19 Americans stuck on watchlists, more than half on no-fly lists, the Department of Homeland Security revealed Tuesday.
This would be demented at any time, but the targeting of non-maskers under Biden’s Transportation Security Administration chief David Pekoske was part of “Operation Freedom to Breathe” (such a sick name), which launched in September 2021 — long after the worst of the pandemic was over, and nearly six months after the CDC relaxed its rules on indoor masking.
So the Biden crew was penalizing Americans not for posing any danger to others, but for having the audacity to buck the regime’s obsessive micromanaging during COVID.
The TSA put another 280 people on watchlists, and five on no-fly lists, for alleged involvement in the Jan. 6 protests — on the basis of half-baked “intelligence,” such that one no-fly designation hit a National Guardsman who was deployed to DC for Biden’s inauguration and wasn’t even at the Capitol during the riot.
The TSA ignored warnings from its own ranks, including its chief privacy officer’s reported email: “TSA is punishing people for the expression of their ideas when they haven’t been charged, let alone convicted of incitement or sedition.”
Read more at https://nypost.com/2025/10/03/opinion/tsas-use-of-no-fly-lists-to-slam-non-maskers-was-more-quiet-tyranny-under-biden/
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