To riff on Gibbs: If Gerardo Hernandez didn’t want to be gunned down in reprisal for he and his fellow TSA employees’ terrorism, he shouldn’t have accepted employment as a terrorist.

Yes, TSA is a terrorist organization. Its entire purpose is to frighten travelers for political purposes — the very definition of terrorism

This argument is so amazingly.. fascist? I'm not even sure if that description does it justice. You can see the mental acrobatics you go through to get there and how carefully it ignores glaringly obvious facts that would suggest another conclusion. All in order to paint something as the villain.

What makes that label legitimate? And when does it become enough to condone violence against that "villain"?

I once worked in a research lab in a building where someone made a bomb threat in protest to animal testing. I never worked with animals, many people in the building never did, but was that an insignificant distinction because we chose to work there? If the bomb had been real, would any employee casualties been justified regardless of who? Is animal testing a cause that's justified to kill over, and to what extent?

Just because some simpleton's naive worldview paints someone as a villain doesn't make it so. Just because you label a TSA grunt as terrorist because it suits you doesn't mean you should throw them to the wolves. That reductionism of the world only shows how easily you adhere to black-and-white propaganda.