Independent war correspondent Michael Yon arrested at Seattle airport for refusing to say how much money he makes!

michael_yonIs this supposed to be the way America is protected from muslim terrorists now? No word yet if Yon’s crotch was searched. Michael Yon is an American author, independent reporter, columnist, photographer, and blogger. He served in the Special Forces in the early-1980s, one of the youngest soldiers to pass the Green Beret selection process, and he became a general freelance writer in the mid-1990s. He focused on military writing after the start of the in Iraq. Yon has been embedded on numerous occasions with American and British troops in Iraq, most prominently a deployment with the 1st Battalion, 24th Infantry Regiment (Deuce Four) of the 25th Infantry Division in Mosul, Iraq that ended in September 2005. Now, Yon has suddenly been arrested at Seattle’s airport for what he describes as “refusing to report how much money he makes!” I kid you not. You can read his facebook entry here, or if you don’t have an account, here’s the summary:

Got arrested at the Seattle airport for refusing to say how much money I make. (The uniformed ones say I was not “arrested”, but they definitely handcuffed me.) Their videos and audios should show that I was polite, but simply refused questions that had nothing to do with national security. Port authority police eve…

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January 5, 2010 · Filed Under General Politics


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