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September 14th 05, 07:40 PM

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From: an_old_friend on Sep 14, 3:01 am

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From: on Sep 13, 8:50 pm
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From: on Sep 11, 3:45 am
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From: on Sep 8, 4:32 pm
Dave Heil wrote:
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Dave Heil wrote:
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From: on Sep 3, 1:55 pm
John Smith wrote:
On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 13:23:26 -0700, N2EY wrote:

See Carl's latest posting? He be blackballed.

Blackballed and a half by the Good Ol Boys at the League.

I rather suspected that the League hierarchy would find
some way to keep Carl down. His past and present doings
(NCI Executive Directorship) are NOT in line with what the
ARRL "leadership" wants.

I never thought that they would move so openly, I was wonderingif some
game might be playedd with the vote tailling

Actually, the League did NOT act openly. ARRL simply announced
the candidates for Divisions and Carl Stevenson was left out of
the list. For all those who haven't had an idea of what's been
going on elsewhere in radio, the Atlantic Division, or NCI, they
would have been none the wiser.

Forgive my inprecision I meant more openly than I would have expected.
What concerned me was playing florida like games with what is and isn't
a proper ballot. they have moved more openly than I would have expected

Or perhaps as you say later they just lack an understanding of the way
info propagates these days

The "game" is simply Sinning By Omission. Leaving out Carl's name
or any mention of why a proposed candidate was tossed gives the
APPEARANCE of "orderly progress" to the League. They don't have
any "dirty linen" to hang out and display so they appear to be the
"good guys." [they've got a huge hamper full of that dirty linen
but just don't mention it, so it APPEARS they don't have any]

making anyone wonder what else is in the hammper

I've tried to point out some of the above for years, only
to be met by the Zealot BELIEVERS of the League who say
they can do nothing wrong. Obviously they've done something
wrong, even for a PRIVATE membership organization that can
toss out anyone they damn well want to. It seems, in Carl's
case, they did just that.

To think I had decided that if Carl won his race Id give the ARRL
another chance to earn my loyality

The League is NOT out to win brownie points for themselves. They
are ENTRENCHED and have been so since 1914...84 years now. By
all the past minutes of the BoD, by all their statements of the
past half century, they've assumed a mantle of "leadership" of
and by themselves. All their decisions are done by a very small
cadre of "leaders" who decide among themselves "what is good for
amateur radio." Oh, they do have some articles on "advancement"
of the state of the art, but the majority of their decisions are
done for their core membership, those who "work DX on HF with CW."

and you know they don't even do right by them (those core members) they
proposed dropping the code tests standard dfurther helping to insure
the Victory of NoCode

With a stated 145 thousand members (in the QST Publisher's
Sworn Statement of the end of July 2005), their membership is
only 1 in 5 licensed United States radio amateurs. So far,
they are managing to keep solvent by the publishing arm of the
League, the part that pays the majority of their expenses of
staying alive. [four years ago their federal income tax forms
showed an income of $12.5 million...not bad for a "non-profit"
entity...there's no hope in heck that membership dues are going
to be any sizeable part of that income]

What the League did was contrary to Dee's insistence that
"all should join and 'change it from within'" or something
to that effect. That's a non sequitur. If one can't get
IN, it be impossible to change a thing there. A sophistry.

So...how does one GET INSIDE to start changing things? It is
NOT by joining and running for any office. Carl Stevenson has
shown that isn't possible. Dee's and others' remarks about
"joining to change things within" is just sophistry, an emotional
phrase to attract membership that has nothing to do with "changes."
The only way to "get inside" is to toady up to the "leadership,"
suck up to the BoD, and begin very slowly in all meetings to turn
things around. That will take decades and will only work by
human attrition, waiting for the present "leadership" to age and
go SK. Right now the League is an oligarchy.

And from history I don't think that will work either, look at the
leadership in the COmunist Party in the USSR over the years (or read
RedStrom strom rising by clancey) on how one exists in these structure

A problem with oligarchies are that POWER is vested in only a
few. They CONTROL. They control what is said publicly, they
control everything that is printed in their "official" books
and magazines. They think they control everything but they
don't. The Internet has become a great "equalizer" of opinions.
Worse yet, the United States government is connected to the
Internet and everyone can see that Commenters in WT Docket 05-235
are not all in agreement with the League.

For that matter, the League has NOT YET responded in any way to
Docket 05-235 and NPRM 05-143. The matter of elimination or
retention of a telegraphy test for a license is of paramount
concern in the immediate future of United States amateur radio.
The League can't be bothered with that. They've had TWO MONTHS
since the release of the NPRM to say something. They haven't.
Or they CAN'T...perhaps not able to understand anyone not
going along with the decisions of a conclave of wire-pullers
in Newington.