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dean.psiropoulos(at)veriz
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 Posted: Tue Feb 06, 2007 10:21 pm Post subject: Aviation Activism 2 |
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Yes I pointed out some Democrats in my email, but you also conveniently
missed the part where I said "It doesn't matter WHICH PARTY is in control in
government, they will find excuses to take away our rights". I mean that
sincerely, please, no matter what party affiliation you are:
We ALL need to be very diligent and very active in politics or that $150,000
RV-10 you just built will end up being a hangar queen that will only be
worth its weight in scrap metal!
And for the record, yes there are many pro-aviation Democrats in the
congress. Hopefully they can keep the rest of the special interests from
regulating us out of existence (but we all need to understand that won't
happen unless we make at least as much noise as those other special
interests).
Do not archive this
one.
Dean
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vaughnray(at)bvunet.net
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| Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2007 7:10 am Post subject: Aviation Activism 2 |
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Dean is entirely correct in what he says. As a long time shooter and
motorcyclist, I can attest to the fact that your elected representatives
have to be contacted often, or they will walk all over your rights. We, as
aviators, are a small minority. By the use of letters, phone and email, we
can appear to be a much larger group. Why? Because few of the larger
majorities lack the passsion to expend the energy required to be heard
effectively.
Moral of story, step on them or they will step on you.
Vaughn
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echristley(at)nc.rr.com
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| Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2007 8:45 am Post subject: Aviation Activism 2 |
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Gaye and Vaughn wrote:
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<vaughnray(at)bvunet.net>
Dean is entirely correct in what he says. As a long time shooter and
motorcyclist, I can attest to the fact that your elected
representatives have to be contacted often, or they will walk all over
your rights. We, as aviators, are a small minority. By the use of
letters, phone and email, we can appear to be a much larger group.
Why? Because few of the larger majorities lack the passsion to expend
the energy required to be heard effectively.
Moral of story, step on them or they will step on you.
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I think that is the saddest statement I've read. That moral, I believe,
is the very heart of the problem. Everyone is running around trying to
step on each other. No one cares about individual liberties. No one
cares about personal responsibilities. And reasonable rules that enable
us all to live peacefully together as informed citizens are ignored.
Meanwhile, the politicos are busy trying to show that they're doing "the
people's business" and protecting us all from the latest trumped up
scare mainly so they can solidify their own power base. It's much
easier to pander to base greed with "they're going to take your social
security" or "they're going to raise your taxes" while . There are so
many issues that should be ignored by the government, or simply require
the publication of relevant information.
Smoking -- Why must it be banned in restaurants (ie, the government
decides if it will be allowed)? Personally, I can't stand to be near
someone smoking while at try to eat or drink. But isn't it enough to
require that it be posted on the restaurants exterior sign whether they
allow smoking or no? Then *I* can decide if I want be a patron of that
restaurant/bar or drive to the next one. Give the information and let
the people decide.
Steroids in sports -- Why is this a federal issue any more than
actresses getting their chests pumped full of silicone? Wouldn't it be
enough to have federal researchers print any studies they've done and be
through with it? If a gazillion dollar a year baseball player wants to
beef up in order to get two gazillion and it willing to accept shrunken
private parts, a grouchy attitude, and "bitch tits" then what business
it of mine.
Panel mounted GPSs -- WE HAVE NTSB REPORTS!! If planes are falling out
of the sky because someone had more information than they would have
otherwise, then it would be reflected in accident reports. I have yet
to find, or even hear of, one single pilot or student who is excited
about spending $6000 and many hours of stress and trepidation to learn
to fly so that they can go kill themselves. Most that I know of spend
more time studying to be safer than they do flying. How does government
'cause-I-said-so-intervention improve anything? Wouldn't safety
increase much faster by facilitating communication betwee the 500,000
pilots who are trying their best to improve safety. If the panel
mounted GPSs pose a problem, they will VERY quickly disappear from the
scene. If they increase safety, then what's the FAA's problem? Publish
the information and shut-up.
Moral of the story is that the politicos response to everything is that
they need more control. The argument is always that someone will break
the rules and cause damage unless they take draconian measures against
everyone. They, after all, are smarter than the rest of us, aren't
they? It is very seldom necessary to step on another group to maintain
the liberty of all. I think the moral is that we need to take the
governments boots away so that they can't step on any of us. Protecting
the larger majorities rights to liberties is the shortest path to
protecting our own.
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vaughnray(at)bvunet.net
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| Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2007 9:42 am Post subject: Aviation Activism 2 |
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The only group that I'm suggesting needs stepping on is the politicians.
Vaughn
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echristley(at)nc.rr.com
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| Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2007 11:13 am Post subject: Aviation Activism 2 |
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Gaye and Vaughn wrote:
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The only group that I'm suggesting needs stepping on is the politicians.
Vaughn
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Aah! Thank you for the clarification. That one is very, VERY true.
Please also note that it's not just the President and Congress that
needs to be reigned in. The homeowner association in my neighborhood
has been running for 20yrs with no problems as a collective of mostly
cooperative neighbors. The new busybody board decides to raise some
dust by raising the issue that the association (ie, the board) should
have the power to levy liens against whomsoever they will. The measure
is pretty much defeated until a new neighbor moves in several months
later and is convinced to vote for the measure. I thought the thing was
over with, and didn't have a clue until it was over.
There's a section in one of the "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" books
where it is explained that normal people can never win these fights.
The problem is that we don't care. We're so busy living our lives and
pursuing happiness that we don't have time to order the affairs of other
people. The only way for us to win is to become the people we're trying
to defeat.
The only way to break the horns of the dilema is to toss the ring back
into the volcano that created it (Read "Lord of the Rings". Hobbits are
common people. The Ring is political power.) Our Constitution was
supposed to reign in the power mongering, but that hasn't worked very well.
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