AK - Alaska House urges TSA to reconsider pat-downs

The Alaska House of Representatives passed a resolution Friday urging the Transportation Security Administration to reconsider its use of full-body pat-downs and calling on Congress to exercise greater oversight over the agency.

The resolution came after state Rep. Sharon Cissna was singled out for a pat-down in Seattle last month after a full-body scan. Cissna is a breast-cancer survivor who had a mastectomy.

The TSA has defended its procedures, saying it uses scanners to show anomalies on a person's body, with pat-downs a way of determining the nature of those anomalies.

The Alaska resolution passed 37-1, with at-times impassioned speeches from lawmakers arguing the agency had overstepped its bounds.

Rep. Carl Gatto, R-Palmer, said he considered the current security procedures overdone. Rep. Scott Kawasaki, D-Fairbanks, who recently went through a full-body scanner, said travelers "are all treated like criminals under the system we have in place right now."

 

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  • April 26, 2011 12:04 PM Howard T. Lewis III wrote:
    Listening to self-admitted molesters in the TSA and Homeland Security mock others' sensibilities iscomplimentary to efforts within the criminal element pushing for stricter border control and the privilege of accosting and jacking -up anyone they feel attracted to, and if they object to the abuse, shooting them dead if necessary or convenient to establish their social dominance. Ask ANY of these TSA-Homeland Security wankers "Who did 9-11?", "Did the Senatecommittee sign off on the finding of the DH well in the Gulf of Mexico being used to intentionally punch an out of control high pressure reservoir in the sea floor of the GOM?" and "Who mandated the location of and licensed the Japan Fukushima plant and its expansion?" I guarantee the sons of bitches won't know. TSA=expendable. Homeland Security=Molester Liberation Front. Bring the troops home.
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  • April 26, 2011 1:13 PM Walter wrote:
    "Integrity, Team Spirit, Innovation" is sewn around the border of the newest TSA patch.
    Have you EVER seen an organization that had to SEW A REMINDER not to STEAL, LIE, and CHEAT on their own shoulders!!!! They STEAL from the "confiscated" items, LIE to the PASSENGERS (and their CO-Workers) and "INNOVATIVELY" CHEAT on their own tests.
    Supervisors PADDING their hours to make house payments.
    Supervisors stealing from the confiscated items.
    Supervisors staggering in drunk.
    Supervisors yelling all NON-Christians should leave the country
    Supervisors expressing their desire to see certain U.S. Senators DEAD
    If I knew a TSA person "socially" ..... I would search themcoming INTO my house to relieve them of weapons and drugs, and I would search them LEAVING my house to relieve them of MY silverware, spare change, cameras, laptops, jewelry ............................................
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