Rep. Gohmert: Obama Might Tolerate Stabbing Of TSA Workers

Speaking on the House floor last night, Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) used Israel's raid on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla to suggest that if TSA employees were attacked at airports, the Obama administration might not come to their defense.

He compared the reaction of activists aboard the Mavi Marmara to a hypothetical post-9/11 scenario in which people were demanding they be allowed to board commercial airliners without security checks.  Gohmert's comparison, of course, doesn't really work.  Israel's actions were not entirely out of a concern for security, but also as a way to maintain its blockade of Gaza.  (The blockade currently prohibits spices, musical instruments, building material and a wide assortment of goods from entering the strip.)  In Gohmert's hypothetical, people would be trying to skirt internationally-established air travel security procedures and bring weapons on airliners. 

Gohmert then absurdly suggested that if people attacked security personnel (presumably TSA workers) at U.S. airports, the Obama administration might not be opposed to their actions.

Gohmert:  How would we react in America if people who decided to "peacefully" overwhelm security at our airports to get on an airplane - for benevolent causes - and they stab or beat security agents at our airports.  We don't put up with that. Well, I don't know.  Maybe this administration would.