Newsstand - Senator Murkowski addresses former colleagues

News-Miner Article (http://www.news-miner.com/Stories/0,1413,113~26794~1351187,00.html)

"Murkowski also told legislators she thinks the Transportation Security Administration has turned into "government gone amok" in small Alaska airports, and the situation needs to be fixed."

Screw you, Jimmy Loy, you scumbag. Get the hell out of an office that you are doing absolutely nothing for "security" by occupying it. You are a disgrace to the United States of America and have no business wearing the flag or any other symbol of freedom. Maybe you can pick up some swastikas on the cheap, you putz.

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"Give me Liberty or give me Death." - Patrick Henry

<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by Spiff:
[B"Murkowski also told legislators she thinks the Transportation Security Administration has turned into "government gone amok" in small Alaska airports, and the situation needs to be fixed."[/B]</font>


Not just in Alaska or only small airports http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/frown.gif



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"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety
deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Ben Franklin

Now that one senator has spoken out about this craziness without getting criticized for having done so, perhaps others will be willing to do the same. Certainly they all realize that what goes on at airports today is mostly silly.

Bruce

Maybe I misread the article (again) but it seems that she is concerned about the tourists and the money they bring to Alaska. Simple solution....buy some x-ray machines and they will replace the vast majority of the screeners working there. Problem pretty much solved.


"We have created a monster with TSA as it applies in Alaska," Murkowski. While it works relatively well in larger city airports, she said it has led to absurd situations in smaller communities.

The TSA expects to have 100 workers in Ketchikan, which would make it practically the largest employer in the city of 13,000. Many are from out of state and will have to be put up at local hotels at government expense, she said.

Because the Ketchikan airport has no X-ray machine, all bags are being searched, which means tourists will wind up having their boxes of salmon unsealed come tourist season, she said.

"We have got to go back and fix it, because this is absurd," Murkowski said