W3LK writes:
Mike: you can rant and puff out your chest and wave your paranoia flag all you want, but it will change nothing. The volunteers do NOT dictate policy to the agencies they serve. If you don't like the policy, stay home. It's that simple.
I have a news flash for some of you folks: served agencies are looking to other communications means to replace amateur radio, especially for large scale disasters.
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Lon Lon Lon,
How would you know if I am puffing out my chest =0)
I have been polite, to the point, and CIVIL, and then there is you.................
You misunderstand completely, yet again, I don't care if I can change policy or not, and I hope to encourage EVERYONE to "stay home" rather than submit to a growing heaping of ludicrous BS requirements.
If "served agencies are looking to other communications means to replace amateur radio", that is FANTASTIC, and I wish them well, but the historical track record of the US Governement doing anything well is not very good.
My frustration stems NOT from the fact that I am dieing to be in "your club", but from the fact that the system is an ever increasing descent into meaningless bureaucracy, rather than FOCUSING ON THE MISSION.
1) I will not submit to a background check, if that means I am excluded, I do not care.
2) If served agencies can complete their mission without Amateur Radio, I wish them well.
Lastly, I find it telling that you resort to tactics of trying to ridicule my position with phrases like "paranoia flag". I have made no mention whatsoever that I beleive any information I might provide will be mis-used. It's not about paranoia, it's about PRINCIPLE.
So try another tack, OM, because you still don't get it.