Police State Tightens Its Grip: TSA Shuts Down ‘Opt-Out’ Option For Airports

TSA shuts door on private airport screening program

DATELINE ZERO - Anytime a government program is put into place to make you do something, promises of being able to opt-out should be met with cynicism. Opt-out programs are offered to disarm critics.

Governments, as a rule, are not institutions that do well when people have choices. (Choices are for the private sector.) Therefor, the government is never sincere about offering choices to members of the private class.

The TSA is no exception when it comes to options to opt-out.

I remember hearing about one airport in Florida — Orlando Sanford International Airport — that openly stated that they may opt-out of the government’s TSA program. They also said that the process to get approval for the opt-out, and to have a private security firm in place, is about 12 months. I wonder if the request will be denied now.

The opt-out thing seemed to have worked fairly well at easing the worries of airports. Now that the TSA crap isn’t in the news any more, the Federal Government is quietly removing that option.

In short: the Federal State has the private class by the balls.

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