![]() Tyner attended private Christian schools in Southern California and lives in Oceanside, a Republican stronghold next to Camp Pendleton, the largest Marine Corps base on the West Coast. TSA security policy, he asserts 'isn't Republican and it isn't Democratic.' " So far, all we know about "ordinary guy" John Tyner III, the freedom fighter who took on the TSA agents, is that, according to a friendly hometown profile in the San Diego Union-Tribune, "he leans strongly libertarian and doesn't believe in voting. TSAstroturf: The Washington Lobbyists and Koch-Funded Libertarians Behind the TSA Scandalĭoes anyone else sense something strange is going on with the apparently spontaneous revolt against the TSA? This past week, the media turned an "ordinary guy," 31-year-old Californian John Tyner, who blogs under the pseudonym "Johnny Edge," into a national hero after he posted a cell phone video of himself defending his liberty against the evil government oppressors in charge of airport security.Į see many of the same elements driving the current "rebellion" against the TSA: Koch-related libertarians, Washington lobbyists and PR operatives posing as "ordinary citizens," and suspicious fake-grassroots outrage relentlessly promoted in the same old right-wing echo chamber. ![]() Greenwald and IOZ have both already commented at some length on a very peculiar piece in The Nation - yes, The Nation - by a couple of Junior Woodchucks named Mark Ames and Yasha Levine: ![]()
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