State Rep Objects to Airport Search Demand…Will Take Ferry Back to Alaska
- Posted on February 22, 2011 at 2:43am by
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JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — An Alaska state lawmaker is making her way back to the state Capitol after refusing a pat-down search at a Seattle airport, a spokeswoman said.
Rep. Sharon Cissna underwent a body scan as she was preparing to leave Seattle-Tacoma International Airport Sunday and was then required to undergo the pat-down by Transportation Safety Administration officials, said Michelle Scannell, her chief of staff.
Scannell said the TSA called for the pat-down because the scan showed Cissna had had a mastectomy.
The TSA, on its website, says security officers “will need to see and touch your prosthetic device, cast or support brace as part of the screening process.”
Scannell did not elaborate beyond the statement. TSA spokesman Kawika Riley, after being asked to respond to Cissna’s comments, issued a general statement that did not mention Cissna or the Anchorage Democrat’s claims.
Scannell, in her statement, said Cissna was ordered to submit to a “very intrusive pat-down or leave the airport.” She said Cissna, who had been in Seattle for medical treatment, was scheduled to return to Alaska via ferry.
Scannell could not immediately say how soon Cissna would return. The state Legislature is currently in the midst of a 90-day session.
Riley, in a general statement, said the TSA is “sensitive to the concerns of passengers who were not satisfied with their screening experience and we invite those individuals to provide feedback to TSA.”
Riley did not immediately return a phone message Monday.
Both full body scanners and pat-down searches have come under increasing criticism as the TSA has stepped up its airport security measures.
Editor’s note: To read Rep. Cissna’s complete statement click here.
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Comments (101)
Shootist
Posted on February 22, 2011 at 9:11amJust wait until the TSA Thugs get unionized….
Report Post »halojim
Posted on February 22, 2011 at 9:10amShe looks like a 18-35 year old Muslim Male to me.
Report Post »shellmen
Posted on February 22, 2011 at 9:04amALL politicians are for sale and the tsa just bought their share. What the hell is wrong with the liberal communist progressives that are willing to give away ALL of our rights to get their petty offinsive way.
Report Post »GhostOfJefferson
Posted on February 22, 2011 at 9:17amKeep in mind that TSA was created by Dubya’s administration. And at the time I was trying to warn conservatives that it was a horrible thing to even think about. But unfortunately both “sides” of American politics sees only butterflies and sunshine when their side does something grossly unconstitutional. It’s only when the other “side” takes power that they sit up and take notice.
These schisms are destroying our nation. Divide and conquer, the oldest trick in the book, and people *still* keep falling for it.
Report Post »popwireless
Posted on February 23, 2011 at 4:30pmI think some of them use military aircraft to fly places. They are different than us…..
Report Post »SingerGuy
Posted on February 22, 2011 at 8:53amI went through the TSA screening on Sunday. I had a 10 oz. bottle of shower gel, but it was mostly gone and there was less than three ounces of product in it (the limit you can take). Yet because it was in a 10 oz. bottle they wouldn’t let me keep it and I had to surrender it to them. These must be the same rocket scientists that have to use a cash register to tell them how much change to give back in fast food restaurants. Somehow I don’t feel any safer when they are in charge of my airport security. I‘m pretty sure I’ll turn into the “don’t touch my junk” guy if it ever goes that far.
Report Post »Highland
Posted on February 22, 2011 at 1:09pmWhere did they come up with the arbitrary three ounce limit, anyway? Do you know how hard it is to find toothpaste in 3 oz. tubes? (Hint: try your local Dollar Store, that‘s where I’ve found it). Why 3, not 4, not 3.6?
Report Post »BrerRabbit
Posted on February 22, 2011 at 8:50amDo they feel-up the Burkas?
Report Post »pecopfc
Posted on February 22, 2011 at 8:39amWARNING…anyone grope me or mine, you get a size 10 boot in the balls.
Report Post »LibertarianLady
Posted on February 22, 2011 at 8:39am@staythecourse
Report Post »The TSA is not meant to target terrorists. If the homeland security was interested in true security they would be securing our borders. This is about targeting citizens. It is about you and me. It is meant to degrade us to accept anything and everything this administration wants to do to us. It is about accepting unauthorized searches. I admire and thank this representative for saying “no”.
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I toally agree.
hempstead1944
Posted on February 22, 2011 at 8:37amGot to admire the folks from the Land of Sarah……
Report Post »John 3:16
Posted on February 22, 2011 at 8:24amTSA = Taliban Substitute for America. Bet they even carry rocks in their pockets instead of guns.
Report Post »Shame on Madis-Cairo
Posted on February 28, 2011 at 11:28amReally??? That is all you can come up with?
Report Post »Country
Posted on February 22, 2011 at 7:30amThat would make me mad too after having all that radiation shot in me and not being able to board the plane. That is how this government wants us, at their mercy.
Report Post »SpankDaMonkey
Posted on February 22, 2011 at 7:17am.
Report Post »I think we all need to start having “When Harry Meet Sally” moments at the pat down. So Put on your BEST “O” FACE, and let the groping begin………
awizard
Posted on February 22, 2011 at 6:21am‘Wish we could edit posts here …
That last line should be; What‘s this country coming to when people will NOT do what they’re told … “Get in line!“ ”Strip!” … “Bend over!”
Going back for more coffee … maybe that cute waitress will want to strip search me, before I sit down on the stool … naw, probably not, she’s not union …
Report Post »awizard
Posted on February 22, 2011 at 6:16am“From Seattle to Alaska”, a scan and a pat down … Now that is a high risk route!.. And that mean old woman wouldn’t let them play with her fake breast!.. AAnd they let her get away!.. she should have been arrested for noncompliance and trying to fly after surgery!..
What‘s this country coming to when people will do what they’re told … “Get in line!“ ”Strip!” … “Bend over!”
[read dripping with sarcasm]
Report Post »van
Posted on February 22, 2011 at 5:59amIt seems to me that the Muslim Terrorists have already won if the U.S. is afraid to target the Muslims, not Granny and little kids. Don’t allow any Muslims in the country and get rid of the ones already here.
Stop the planned protest in early March by some Muslim Terrorist from England, he is calling for the establishment of sharia law in the U.S. and the overthrow of the government.
America, What Happened to US?
Report Post »LadyLibertykicksASS
Posted on February 22, 2011 at 12:35pmWe need to get some grapes, PC is going to get us all KILLED!!!! We need to stop any more immigration from Muslim countries for about 5 yrs. The Muslim who are here need to be encouraged to assimilate. They need to be evaluated for level of Danger they pose to America. If they are considered a danger…back they go.
Report Post »Anne G
Posted on February 22, 2011 at 5:52amI almost cannot wait for TSA union workers first STRIKE. Problem is, it will not
Report Post »hurt the Union’s top guns…………they probably have their own planes. But the
rest of union workers throughout America who backed this idiotic crap will just
have to stay home, instead of visiting Grandma and Grampa at Xmas, or Thanksgiving.
Wake up “workers of America”. You are being used.
GUT_CHECK
Posted on February 22, 2011 at 8:38amthey strike,
Report Post »u.s. stops
trumpka tactics
Diane TX
Posted on February 22, 2011 at 5:19amNote to TSA. Check out the Muslims. They’re more likely to have bombs strapped to them, than Grannie with a prosthetic device from her cancer surgery.
The last time I flew was for my for mother’s funeral. I wasn’t unduly touched, but I had a feminine hygiene pad in my purse that was “searched” by the TSA. Of course I threw it away. Things are getting way too personal for air travel.
Report Post »dcwu
Posted on February 22, 2011 at 4:33amCut TSA.
Report Post »Zero it’s budget.
Cut cut cut.
Zero all unconstitutional agencies.
GhostOfJefferson
Posted on February 22, 2011 at 8:52amWhat DCWU said. Exactly correct.
Report Post »RiteOne
Posted on February 22, 2011 at 10:44amCUT?
Agreed in spirit. Not sure in practice. I want someone implementing security in some way.
Let it be private sector with a limit stating no fewer than 5 independent businesses must be operating to protect against monopoly. The govt needs to be out of this biz. Private competition will make a better result.
Report Post »DaytonConserve
Posted on February 22, 2011 at 4:04amCould be we need to borrow the rent-a-mob in Wisconsin along with their quack doctors to show up at the airports and protest there against the TSA.
Report Post »Goodgriefgeezlouise
Posted on February 22, 2011 at 3:47amThe military should be in charge of security at the airports..or at the least, people with military experience..These are the real professionals..Not a bunch of losers like the TSA knuckleheads..The time period after 9/11 was a good example .. The folks in uniform are trained and disciplined to do what is neccessary and correct in every circumstance..I would much rather see them doing the job in the airports than the TSA…Just makes good sense to have them there to protect us..
Report Post »staythecourse
Posted on February 22, 2011 at 3:40amThe TSA is not meant to target terrorists. If the homeland security was interested in true security they would be securing our borders. This is about targeting citizens. It is about you and me. It is meant to degrade us to accept anything and everything this administration wants to do to us. It is about accepting unauthorized searches. I admire and thank this representative for saying “no”.
Report Post »NancyBee
Posted on February 22, 2011 at 7:15amI agree
Report Post »Colonial Revolutionary
Posted on February 22, 2011 at 7:53amI agree. I fly for business almost every week. Last week I carried my wallet in my hand into the whole body scanner rather then feed it through the x-ray, because I had just read the stories of the TSA agents stealing money from passengers. Carrying your wallet in your hand is perfectly acceptable (at least it was, they make up the rules as they go along) to the TSA. They just search your wallet in front of your presence. The TSA agent searched my wallet and then told me, get this,
“Your wallet is too big to hand carry, you need to put it through the x-ray next time.”
I told her I read about TSA stealing from passengers and did not trust them. Guess what? Yep I get additional screening. Pat down and hand swipes for explosives.
This is a clear violation of my constitutional rights under the 4th amendment, but what am I going to do? Quit traveling? I have to feed my family. Something has to be done.
Report Post »popwireless
Posted on February 23, 2011 at 4:19pmI agree and perhaps if enough Democrats feel personally violated by these intimate searches maybe even a lopsided Washington can take notice. We may however have to wait for a Republican president.
Report Post »tomloy
Posted on February 22, 2011 at 3:20amIts just not worth flying anymore. What with the increase in the price of tickets and the TSA patdowns, I’ll drive.
Report Post »staythecourse
Posted on February 22, 2011 at 3:41amTomloy. Decreased airtravel. Decreased car travel. high speed trains and public transportation. Look up Agenda 21.
Report Post »Buck Bagaw
Posted on February 22, 2011 at 11:26amAnybody but me see the connection between TSA(hole) thuggery and Obama’s weird obsession with high speed rail travel??
Report Post »Highland
Posted on February 22, 2011 at 1:06pmHow convenient for Obama that the price of gasoline is skyrocketing just when his TSA makes air travel unbearable. I guess we’ll just stay home …
Report Post »Psychosis
Posted on February 22, 2011 at 3:19am@ WALKWITHME AND MOSSBRAIN
though the temporary lapse and return to common sense on your part is to be appreciated, your stance on profiling, or your agreement to the lack of profiling as a good thing, only goes to show how liberalism really is a mental disorder please seek help as it may help you return to reality a bit faster
Report Post »lillianrose
Posted on February 22, 2011 at 3:10amEnough of the radiation and molestation! Israel has a successful program. They have offered to help the US. They need to bring in trained dogs to sniff things out, profile and ask questions of all, watch body language.
Report Post »mossbrain
Posted on February 22, 2011 at 2:52amI‘m afraid I’m going to have to agree with everyone else here, profile the terrorists, leave the rest of us alone. Until someone explodes a fake tit bomb, keep your hands off.
Report Post »komponist-ZAH
Posted on February 22, 2011 at 3:10amPsychological profiling and bomb-sniffing dogs would be my suggestions to the TSA.
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on February 22, 2011 at 3:13amAgreed. I am still hearing too many horror stories from people travelling and telling me what has been done to them while people of muslum dress and heritage are escorted in the clear around the various security measures.
Report Post »GhostOfJefferson
Posted on February 22, 2011 at 8:48amRight on Moss, well said.
Report Post »walkwithme1966
Posted on February 22, 2011 at 2:48amI agree 100% with her decision – TSA in many cases are going to far!! http://wp.me/pYLB7-Gt
Report Post »cheezwhiz
Posted on February 22, 2011 at 2:59amTSA is “sensitive to the concerns of passengers who were not satisfied with their screening experience and we invite those individuals to provide feedback to TSA.”
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Why would TSA want that ? So that they can send their thugs to intimidate passengers , @ their homes?
Or to put them on some kind of “ no fly list” for future harrassment by TSA ?
TSA knows the right things to do for security. They choose NOT to do them, and complaining by passengers won’t help one bit.
TSA is not even about security anymore. They are just one big union with no accountability and secure jobs , just like teachers
solaveritas
Posted on February 22, 2011 at 3:01amAnd the TSA was just given the right to unionize!
Report Post »sissykatz
Posted on February 22, 2011 at 3:07amI think this inept group of TSA fools just like to put people with prosthetics in humiliating and mortifing positions, simply because they can, This is one of those cases where you give someone a little authority and they take it to the extreme. I hope someone fires this bunch of bunks and get the unions away from them. This is ridiculous.
Report Post »komponist-ZAH
Posted on February 22, 2011 at 3:10amGlad to hear you have some common sense.
Good for her.
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on February 22, 2011 at 3:12am@Walkwithme
I have seen the results of TSA actions first hand, when my own mother, a elderly lady, was made to go through the extra screening and when she asked why, was threatened on the spot with arrest for her question. When she asked for a police officer to be there at the search one of the three people who surrounded her then smashed her shoulder with a flashlight and laughed about it afterwards.
So far the TSA has refused to do anything about the matter, and legal charges in court are being carried out.
Report Post »Rice Water
Posted on February 22, 2011 at 3:22amWay to Fight the Power. Now, can I get a ferry ride to New Hampshire this fall?
Report Post »nzkiwi
Posted on February 22, 2011 at 6:38amOff topic, sorry. @My Sacred Honor, Snow and others. I’m still alive and have posted on the earthquake story.
Report Post »Conserving Ink
Posted on February 22, 2011 at 6:43amThe sad thing is now that these molesters are unionized, even a total walkout would not effect their jobs or their pay.
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legendarytwo
Posted on February 22, 2011 at 7:24amProfile terrorists not patriots.
Report Post »legendarytwo
Posted on February 22, 2011 at 7:29amAnother example of how good government is at solving problems.
Report Post »GhostOfJefferson
Posted on February 22, 2011 at 7:30amGlad we have some common ground WalkWithMe.
I do wonder, if you or I refuse a pat down, we are not allowed to leave and are subject to a hefty fine. How is it that she got out of this?
I‘m not saying it’s wrong that she did, however, I’d like to know HOW she did so that this information can be spread around.
Report Post »AzDebi
Posted on February 22, 2011 at 8:39amJustice Alito upheld the practices at an airport checkpoint where passengers were first screened with walk-through magnetometers and then, IF they set off an alarm, with hand-held wands. He wrote that airport searches are reasonable if they escalate “in invasiveness ONLY after a lower level of screening disclose[s] a reason to conduct a more probing search”.
Any thing beyond this…is a violation of our 4th Amendment Rights! Are we people or sheeple?
Report Post »Big Mickey
Posted on February 22, 2011 at 9:56amA search (either by scanner or by hand) that is not supported by warrant pursuant to affidavit that a crime was likely to have been committed, is in every case and any case, UNWARRANTED. All TSA searches are unconstitutional.
Report Post »waggie
Posted on February 22, 2011 at 1:44pmWhy doesn’t the senate do something about the TSA? They are doing their best to get Obamacare shot down, they are doing their best to cut the budget. Why can’t they put this useless TSA out of business?
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on February 22, 2011 at 1:47pm@CheezWhiz ~
Do you have X-Ray vision? You see through everything, everybody, and everyone’s motives!
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on February 22, 2011 at 2:10pm@GhostOfJefferson
Posted on February 22, 2011 at 7:30am
Those are Transportation Safety people. If she does not get on a plane, she has committed no crime. If they hold her against her will without an arrest warrant, that IS a crime.
Government and its thug unions are nudging a BIT TOO MUCH, in my opinion.
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on February 22, 2011 at 2:11pm@Rice Water
Report Post »Posted on February 22, 2011 at 3:22am
Way to Fight the Power. Now, can I get a ferry ride to New Hampshire this fall?
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What are you smoking?
Showtime
Posted on February 22, 2011 at 2:13pm@nzkiwi
Posted on February 22, 2011 at 6:38am
Off topic, sorry. @My Sacred Honor, Snow and others. I’m still alive and have posted on the earthquake story.
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WRONG!! You are right ON TOPIC, Kiwi! We have been hoping to hear from you!
Is there anything we can do?
Report Post »missionarydad
Posted on February 22, 2011 at 2:19pmI am sorry but this has gotten way beyond ridiculous. Our security needs to be fashioned like Israel does. Lets profile Muslims and leave the rest of the public alone. I am sorry but I do not see people with the name of Smith and Jones blown things up they all seem to have names that should raise a red flag from the start. Cissna is not one of those names that come to mind.
Report Post »kindling
Posted on February 22, 2011 at 9:23pmThey have not caught a single terrorist and they do not check all fright that goes on a plane so why check people. This is an outrage and will go down in history as a black eye on America.
Report Post »Mee the People
Posted on February 23, 2011 at 10:37amWhat about the pilots that are in control of the jets
Report Post »if they get blackmailed or something,
the game is over right there
Wyoming
Posted on February 23, 2011 at 1:53pmThey should warn you BEFORE being scanned that they are going to pat you down ANYWAY – it happen to me in Tulsa because I had baggy pants on. I was MIFFED! What a joke. They don’t care. If they say they do then their actions are calling them liars!
Report Post »Shame on Madis-Cairo
Posted on February 28, 2011 at 11:27amI just flew on Southwest last week and I was REQUIRED to get a pat down on both legs of the journey, as I have a medical implant that cannot be scanned. The TSA workers who patted me down were professional, patient, and explained everything they were going to do before they did it. It is just part of the world we live in. I will gladly take an extra 15 min of “hassle” rather than see extremist Muslims dancing in the streets when more innocent Americans are killed.
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