Orlando Sanford International Airport to opt out of TSA screening

[FrankRep]

Sanford Airport to opt out of TSA screening (http://wdbo.com/localnews/2010/11/sanford-airport-to-opt-out-of.html)


WDBO News
November 18, 2010



The backlash continues over those new TSA screening measures, and now one Central Florida airport has decided to go with a private security screening firm.

Orlando Sanford International Airport has decided to opt out from TSA screening.

"All of our due diligence shows it's the way to go," said Larry Dale, the director of the Sanford Airport Authority. "You're going to get better service at a better price and more accountability and better customer service."

Dale says he will be sending a letter requesting to opt out from TSA screening, and instead the airport will choose one of the five approved private screening companies to take over.

Congressman John Mica, who's expected to lead the powerful Transportation Committee next year, says the TSA is crying out for reform.

"I think TSA is overstepping its bounds," said Mica.

Dale says, if all goes as planned, the private security firm could take over in about 12 months.


SOURCE:
http://wdbo.com/localnews/2010/11/sanford-airport-to-opt-out-of.html



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Airports NOT required to have TSA screeners - Time to Opt-Out!
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[MRoCkEd]

Dale says he will be sending a letter requesting to opt out from TSA screening, and instead the airport will choose one of the five approved private screening companies to take over.

Unfortunately, it will take forever because the government has to approve it, but it's good to see an airport finally say no to the TSA.

[SWATH]

Wow that great because that is the one airport I fly into most often and had already decided to give up flying on account of the TSA.

[nate895]

Disney was probably pissed because a ton of people decided they would rather not have their wife and daughters groped or used as porn than to go to Walt Disney World. Next: John Wayne Airport in Orange County, California.

[Elwar]

I'd be willing to drive to Orlando instead of using the Tampa airport if this were to happen.

And I work 2 exits away from the Tampa airport...

[aGameOfThrones]

I haven't used that airport in a couple of years, I might see me using it now.

[specsaregood]

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[Anti Federalist]

‘Anti-TSA’ American Commies

Posted by Daniel McAdams on November 19, 2010 05:54 PM

http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/70380.html

In the good old days of Hungarian communism, the “happiest barrack in the camp” existed tenuously as a Western-financed bubble wherein the unworkable centrally planned economy was propped up by Western loans (which for the most part enriched the nomenklatura) under the condition that the Commies in charge loosen their political grip a little, for appearances sake. Being clever, the communist leadership simply created out of whole cloth a “democratic opposition” of “former” commies who could actually support the regime by challenging it. Define the limits of debate so as to deny any real anti-communists a place at the table, thereby managing the eventual political transition and enriching themselves in the process. A brilliant plan and it for the most part worked.

How does this relate to the dangerously grassroots opposition to TSA’s new pro-sexual assault policy? One of the prime drafters of the legislation creating the TSA is taking his place as the leader of the opposition “against” the TSA, trying to nudge from any place at the table real opponents of the TSA and the national security state. The goal of course, as was the goal of the Hungarian communists above, is to make sure any opposition to the system is contained within “reasonable” boundaries, i.e. that no matter what happens the state is in control. Hence the statists’ proposal to “privatize” the TSA’s “gate rapes” to federally-approved Blackwater-type security firms, cutting out the unions and enriching Republican party donors in the process. And your next airport security screener, whose salary is now three times the salary of the old TSA screener, may well have had a few tours at Abu Ghraib under his belt. Enjoy your opt-out!