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I agree it's important everywhere you go, but not always attractive.  So 
let's make it a thread that's easily identifiable so the faint of heart 
can bypass it.
All the stuff you can't discuss in the wardroom :o) ... Jim S.

Ernest Christley wrote:

> atlasyts@bellsouth.net wrote:
>
>> C'mon guys, this is ROTARY ENGINE Mailing list. FOCUS! Leave politics 
>> and religion out of here.
>> Buly
>>  
>>
>
> I don't see how religion will help anything, except to say that I do 
> pray for you guys to be safe whenever I think about it, but politics 
> is just the name that we give to the science of getting along with 
> others.  Discussions of politics most definitely has a place in 
> everything we do within society, lest we find that someone has stolen 
> our triangular cake while we refused to talk about it.
>
> Just as we do with our motor installations, we need to break this 
> situation down to first principles.  These people got tangled up in a 
> convoluted twisting of multiple webs...Social Security meets the FAA 
> meets Disability payments.  The rules and regulations that govern each 
> of these can be read, but not interpreted by the average American.  
> Even most above average Americans have a lot of difficulty, as 
> witnessed by the flamewars the periodically fire up over some 
> interpretation of a FAR.  Just refer to Mr. Callahan's post describing 
> how a person could do something completely reasonable (fly the same 
> plane that he's been flying for 50yrs), and get tangled up in the 
> regulations.
> These are not reasonable laws for sane men.  The cynical side of me 
> says that they're a twisted joke played by sadistic daemons hiding 
> within a faceless government.  My reasonable side reminds the cynic 
> that nothing should be attributed to malice which can be explained by 
> stupidity and ignorance.  What I know for certain, is that 
> politicians, ever seeking to quiet the mewing masses, use the tangled 
> mess to bust a few heads when it suits them to put on a show that they 
> are doing something about society's problems.  Some years ago, it was 
> Food Stamp fraud.  I know someone very close that was sentenced to a 
> few years of probation and given a criminal record for filling out a 
> confusing form as instructed by the government representative.  The 
> mistake had no bearing on whether she would have recieved benefits, 
> but the press was all up in arms about 'welfare fraud' and therefore 
> heads had to roll.  Civic resources wasted so that someone doing their 
> best just to get by can be blindsided with more heartache because they 
> can't decipher a tangled mess of contradictory language.
>
> Today, the big scare is anything that's related to airplanes.  
> Somewhere, somehow, some heads have to roll.  We got 48.  Maybe that 
> will be enough.  Most likely not.  But law enforcement officials do 
> get a lot of good press for busting anything to do with aviation.  The 
> 'investigation' will need to spread so that people can feel 'safe'.  I 
> feel no safer than I did a few days ago.  Most people won't.  Maybe 
> tomorrow some nameless bureaucrat will light on the idea that small 
> airplanes aren't being inspected properly.  It's just their strongly 
> felt but uninformed opinion, but it will be decided that The Law needs 
> to be inforced more stringently to insure the public safety.  They'll 
> proceed to bust the head of some clueless A&P that signs off on 
> somebody's safety wiring that has four twist instead of three.  
> "Deadly safety violation" is what they'll call it when they harp to 
> the press.  At some point, they'll get around to 'protecting' that 
> recalcitrant group of rebellious mavericks that insist on using 
> 'unapproved' engines to fly over the poor unsuspecting public.
>
> Politics does have a place here.
>