Seattle Airport Customs plays IRS

Here's one for the "good grief" file. Michael Yon—a preeminent war correspondent and Green Beret—was arrested for refusing to disclose his salary.

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 eventually came—they were professionals—and rescued me from the border bullies.

Here's a more full account of what went down. It's possible that these guys gave Yon a hard time because of this article he wrote about TSA, referring to them as "border bullies". In the reader comments on the BigGovernment entry, it is mentioned that TSA will soon be unionized. That's great; they'll be even more unbearable while continuing to let guys named Muhammed bring pipe bombs onto the plane.

Update: Whoops, per Michael Yon, it was the customs people who were asking the inappropriate questions. I updated this entry somewhat. But his "border bullies" article was talking about Homeland Security in general.