What do you do when you are an employee of a government contractor and complained about serious problems in the company, but no one seemed to be taking action? You make a video about it and post it on YouTube.

Michael De Kort was an engineer for Lockheed Martin and complained to his bosses, government investigators and members of Congress, but did not feel like anything was being done to correct what he felt were serious problems, the Washington Post reported.

The Washington Post provides some excerpts from De Kort's YouTube video:

"What I am going to tell you is going to seem preposterous," De Kort solemnly tells viewers near the outset of the 10-minute clip. Posted three weeks ago, the video describes what De Kort says are blind spots in the ship's security cameras, equipment that malfunctions in cold weather and other problems. "It may be very hard for you to believe that our government and the largest defense contractor in the world [are] capable of such alarming incompetence and can make ethical compromises as glaring as what I am going to describe."

It looks like De Kort has started to garner the attention of at least one member of Congress (via Washington Post):

The video also has caught the eye of people in high places. De Kort's video has been covered by defense trade magazines, and yesterday, Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.), ranking Democrat on the Homeland Security Committee, wrote a letter to the Coast Guard asking for an answer to De Kort's "extremely distressing" allegations.

Some see this case as part of an exciting new trend (via Washington Post):

"This is an excellent example of the democratization of the media, where everyone has access to the printing press of the 21st century," said Dina Kaplan, co-founder of Blip.tv, a site that hosts grass-roots television programming.

Here's the actual De Kort video: