Why are we still calling them "ham" bands? Heck, nobody even knows where that term came from any more and we continue to argue over whether it should be capitalized or not.
Part 97 is called the "Amateur Radio Service." Part 97 says things like there's value, especially with respect to providing emergency communication, advance the radio art, advancing skills, trained operators, technicians, and electronics experts.
The ARRL keeps pushing things like ARES, NTS, SKYWARN and RACES. Are people who participate and become proficient in these areas of emergency communication amateurs? I don't think so. Some are very PROFESSIONAL.
We need to start calling things like they are today. The only thing we learn from history is that we don't learn from history. So why even bother looking at history any more? As in the movie Cannon Ball Run, "What's behind me, it's not important."
Aren't these frequencies allocated to the "Citizens?" Why don't we start calling them what they *really* are? "Citizen's Bands."
That's how change is made in a democracy--we start using different words and implying different meanings in order to make "progress."