A Trump supporter who attended the peaceful rally that preceded the Capitol Hill riot revealed to The Post Millennial that she was flagged with facial recognition technology and interrogated by Homeland Security while flying home from vacation last week. Then FBI agents appeared at her house.

When 54-year-old Dana Kurtbek of Bucks County, Pennsylvania, travelled to Mexico with her daughter, the conservative woman was held at Philadelphia Airport for intensive screening conducted by the Transportation Security Administrationeven though she is enrolled in the expedited TSA PreCheck programand missed her American Airlines flight.


"I thought it was just random bad luck," she told The Post Millennial, emphasizing that she's a taxpaying, law-abiding American citizen with no criminal record. Fortunately, she was placed on a later flight.


But then just before her return trip at Cancun Airport, she was again held at the United Airlines check-in counter for extra screening. She was able to make her scheduled flight that time.


However, when Kurtbek landed in Newark Liberty National Airport last Monday, she was stopped at Customs and Immigration and then taken into the airport's interrogation room.


The responding Homeland Security officer informed Kurtbek that she was flagged with facial recognition technology as a participant in the domestic terrorist attack on the Capitol when radicals breached federal property.


Kurtbek explained that she did travel to Washington to attend the Jan. 6 pro-Trump rally, but she was nowhere near where the siege occurred. She questioned how it was possible that she was associated with the few extremists who stormed the Capitol building when the majority of rally-goers were peaceful and respectful.


"Are we as Americans no longer allowed the right to assemble?" Kurtbek wondered. "Have we ever been the land of the free or has it all been an illusion? Is that why Trump was so hated?"


After her initial shock, Kurtbek responded to the interview questions while the personnel searched her phone and scrutinized the photos stored on her device.


Kurtbek speculated that if the officer was not as reasonable, she could have been kept there for an indefinite period. "There would have been absolutely nothing I could have done," she suggested. "There is really no way to know what lengths they could have taken this."


"I had been flagged by my government as a potential domestic terrorist simply because I attended a rally in support of the president," Kurtbek said, reflecting on the situation. "Our rights as American citizens have been removed and the government is using this incident to intimidate those with differing views into compliance."


Kurtbek emphasized that for the past four years, anyone who has shown support for then President Donald Trump has been harassed, ridiculed, and called every name in the book.


"We have been referred to as traitors, un-American, racists, homophobic, ignorant, brainwashed, and now domestic terrorists by the same people who proudly display 'Hate Has No Home Here' placards in their front yards," Kurtbek fired back.


Her adult daughter was also detained and taken into another room, but she was not in the nation's capital for the protest. While Kurtbek has not flown since the duo's return home, her daughter has travelled twice for work. Even though she also has TSA PreCheck with clear access, she is still being targeted for screening every time she flies, Kurtbek reported.


Later that week on Friday night, two FBI agents appeared at her front door, informing Kurtbek that the bureau had received two reports from anonymous sources claiming that she was inside the Capitol building during the incident. The agents cited a screenshot captured from a CNN video that depicted a woman identified by authorities as Kurtbek.


"Since I know I was nowhere near the Capitol, I laughed and asked to see the photo and if it was possible to know who identified me because they are absolutely lying and wasting taxpayer money by sending them both out to my home," Kurtbek recounted.


When she prompted the main officer for his business card, he said he was out and flashed his badge. Kurtbek also asked if she could record the conversation, but her request was denied.


He then showed her the alleged evidence and agreed with Kurtbek that the suspect did not look like her in any way other than being a middle-aged white woman with a similar build.


The agents asked her several more questions such as who she was with at the time and how she travelled to the District. They also told her that they don't believe that she was involved and that she "shouldn't" have any further issues.


"Of course, I have heard that from TSA and Homeland Security earlier in the week, so I am not sure I believe that," Kurtbek volleyed.


She does not know who would have reported her to the FBI and the federal agents provided no further information after they left. "I hope this is all over. I don't believe it is," Kurtbek said.


"I am very saddened and disheartened to learn the lengths our government will go to bully its citizens into compliance," Kurtbek concluded.


"I know it would be easier to simply be quiet but no one should be ok with our rights being taken away by anyone. I am being told by many to drop this and move on but I am afraid to think of what could have been and if we remain silent what may be."

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Wow, that's fucked up.

#1 - Don't talk to them. Arrest me, or fuck off.

#2 - If you are gonna talk to them, insist upon recording it. I wouldn't trust those motherfuckers any more than I could throw them. And if they refuse recording, then go to #3.

#3 - Don't fucking talk to them. Arrest me, or fuck off.

BTW sounds like TSA has probably made both her and her daughter Selectees.

no.  and yes it's all an illusion.

Remember that this is the same FBI that was so useless during the Antifa/BLM riots.

Makes ya wonder if kiddie porn was planted on a computer of a certain person in Fla.

Most pedos don't just start shooting the moment a door is kicked in.
Hell most pedos don't or can't own guns to begin with.

But a certain sect of social deplorablas do and some have them ready to rock on the 1st knock.

Expect her story to be repeated by others many times.

Hell i have been asked more then once if i was in DC and haven't been there since 2010 just passing through as fast as 495 loop would get me through.

This must be what the Jews felt like very early on. Getting briefly upset with stories they hear. Then going on with their days like normal. Shaking their head at the discrimination for your beliefs. Gradually, it gets worse, but nothing you can do about it.  The system seems to be rigged against you. Figure it will blow over or things will calm down.  Maybe next election.

Government begins to start digging through every bit of documentation they have that might clue them in on who shares the same beliefs. Making a list of those people. As time goes on, it takes less and less evidence to convince them you belong on that list. The filter widens.

Then one day, they are going house to house rounding you up for "relocation". Because the people in power, and those who voted for them, cannot tolerate you living among them in their reformed society any longer.

Easy to say from your keyboard.
Not so easy when you are trying to get back into your country.

Reason # 11 why all of those patriots should have been wearing masks.

Very much so.

From the same people who tell us that they could do nothing about antifa because they are just an idea.

LOL @ telling her she couldn't record them at her own house.

Look it's a bird.......it's a plane.........it's VIRTUE man!

Remember to thank Bush for the Patriot Act.
It allows them to basically take away your rights.
It needs to be repealed.

No chance now. The machine has been set into motion to root out ALL of the evil Trump supporters and right wing freedom lovers.
This country is so fucked. ????

That is really fucked up. How many FBI agents have been going around investigating the actual terrorists that have been burning down our cities all year? So she just goes to rally/protest and she is detained? Stuff like this makes me angry. She's also from my county. I wish her the best and hope the feds fuck off and leave her alone.

You can take the red pill or the blue one.

I’d like to add that searching her phone without a warrant may end up helping her retire early.

302’s are subjective reports written by the agents with their own hand. They can, and do, say anything the agents needs them to in order to get the result they are looking for.

Recording takes a lot of their freedom to lie away.

It’s easy to gain uncoerced “permission” so search a phone when you tell someone you can hold them indefinitely and there is fuck-all they can do about it.

This

Antifa are wankers but they are not stupid.  They mask up and dress identically.

The BLM rioters make great use of face coverings as well.

Most of the people in the gathering in Washington on the 6th didn’t wear a mask and now seem surprised that they have somehow been recognised.

I find it somewhat ironic that people who profess to mistrust their Govt oblige so readily in ensuring the efficacy of facial recognition technology while protesting so vehemently against something that would render that invasive technology virtually useless.

For some strange reason the courts have said this is legal when you enter the country from overseas

Just make it painful for them.  Very fucking painful.

How naive can you be?

Proper response:

Fuck you

Fuck your mother

Fuck your dog

Fuck Joe Biden

Fuck the Whore, you all know who

Get my lawyer now if I’m under arrest.  If not kiss my ass, I’m leaving.

Yup. I'll say it again, Fuck the FBI.

Concur and that many laws were written well in advance of the event

Lawyer.  No you may not look at my phone.  I am recording our conversation that includes me saying Lawyer.

Now go away

TSA is on the case!

Doubtful, she allowed them to do so

The same FBI that site mods get their panties all bunched up when some of us are indifferent when they lose a few of them?

Depends on if she gave them permission.

Amanda Chase was at the rally, but skipped the Capitol and it seems even half the VA GOP is good with stripping her of committee assignments and censuring her.  She's no angel and a bit of a loon, but this crap is going too far.  The FBI should be pouring through widely available footage of riots from all of 2020 and making arrests.  I'm sure there are plenty with priors that should be low hanging fruit.

Don’t talk to them and for the love of god don’t use biometric prints to unlock your phone.

Yup, I got my arfpepe slapped hard yesterday by two of them for the same comment.

Yep, fuck that. You come to my house or work my phone is coming out and i am recording. If they don't like it I guess they can always just leave. I also wouldn't talk at all. Phone comes out and I would simply stare at them.

The agents will lie and say she consented.

+1

Yup.  We are living in interesting times.

Lies on the 302 were used to indict Flynn.

No warrants are required for searching your person or effects at border crossings.

She should be on Tucker.

There is no requirement, and there never has been, under federal law to get a warrant to search an international traveler's items at a port of entry. Customs can do this without a warrant.

And then they’ll arrest her for “lying” to a federal LEO about not having given consent.   world.

Damn, after reading that it's hard to believe this is still America.

But why would they want to go after THEIR rioters?

I can almost reliably tell who the keyboard commandos are, who turn into sniveling punk asses bitches when the full weight and force of the federal govt starts exerting pressure on their spincther.

Wanna guess who? JUST ABOUT EVERYONE. They offer to not just fuck you over, but also all lf the things you can use to mount a defense and all people that mean something in your life.

Agreed, along with ACA. Congress also needs to balance the budget, quit infringing & restricting the citizen’s rights, put themselves on the ACA instead of their ‘cadillac’ plan, eliminate lifetime pay & medical for themselves simply because they worked a minuscule number of years in congress, institute term limits against themselves & eliminate their ability to insider trade...



...any day now

Shhh. Next thing you know some unwashed under rock dweller is going to call you a virtue signaler.

Does anyone know how long US Customs can detain you BEFORE allowing you to speak with an attorney?

The govt has the ability to "make" anyone a criminal they want to.

That's the intended reaction of the story

Mods don’t like it when fed enforcers retire? Huh, that’s odd...