TSA - another indignity for permanent residents

I agree completely. I'm going to call AOPA tomorrow and find
out why permanent residents are not part of their lobbying effort.



"Marco Rispoli" wrote in message
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And just to top it all off ... AOPA doesn't care.

http://www.aopa.org/whatsnew/newsite...040923tsa.html

Not even a mention of Permanent Residents. Not even a mention that
permanent
residents already went through background checks, finger printing, they
are
already on file with the Departement of Homeland Security (no less) ...
nothing.

I am an AOPA member but as far as they are concerned I do not exist.

I might even understand where the TSA is coming from and I might even
appreciate that they are trying to defend this country, since after all, I
live here too and my wife works in Manhattan and I really don't want to go
through another day like 9/11.

But at least, I expected the AOPA to stand up for us and try to make the
point!!

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Marco Rispoli - NJ, USA / PP-ASEL
My on-line aviation community - http://www.thepilotlounge.com

"Peter MacPherson" wrote in message
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I agree completely. I'm going to call AOPA tomorrow and find
out why permanent residents are not part of their lobbying effort.



I will be sending an email to Phil Boyer tonight.

Not sure what good it will do ... but it's worth a try.

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Marco Rispoli - NJ, USA / PP-ASEL
My on-line aviation community - http://www.thepilotlounge.com

I just sent an email to Phil Boyer. I'll let you know what his response is.



"Marco Rispoli" wrote in message
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"Peter MacPherson" wrote in message
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I agree completely. I'm going to call AOPA tomorrow and find
out why permanent residents are not part of their lobbying effort.



I will be sending an email to Phil Boyer tonight.

Not sure what good it will do ... but it's worth a try.

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Marco Rispoli - NJ, USA / PP-ASEL
My on-line aviation community - http://www.thepilotlounge.com

Marco Rispoli wrote:

Not sure what good it will do ... but it's worth a try.

You should also mention it to our local AOPA representative, whom you'll be
seeing on an upcoming Thursday for dinner.

http://www.aopa.org/whatsnew/region/r-ea.html

- Andrew

"Andrew Gideon" wrote in message
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Marco Rispoli wrote:

Not sure what good it will do ... but it's worth a try.

You should also mention it to our local AOPA representative, whom you'll
be
seeing on an upcoming Thursday for dinner.

http://www.aopa.org/whatsnew/region/r-ea.html

- Andrew


Well well well ... why didn't I think of that?

Yeah I'll get in touch with Bill ...

Thanks Andrew!

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Marco Rispoli - NJ, USA / PP-ASEL
My on-line aviation community - http://www.thepilotlounge.com

Marco Rispoli wrote:

Well well well ... why didn't I think of that?

Because I need something to make me look useful in my declining years.

Yeah I'll get in touch with Bill ...

Good idea. In fact, I was thinking after I'd posted my previous note: why
wait for the meeting? Give him a call. But it sounds like you'd already
thought of that. So much for my usefulness grin.

FWIW, there's at least one other "green card PIC" (cute label, that) in both
MAPA and the PFC. Perhaps there are more. I wonder if it's worth
contacting Larry - the fellow behind Surface Winds - in hopes of an article
on the matter.

- Andrew

"Andrew Gideon" wrote in message
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I wonder if it's worth
contacting Larry - the fellow behind Surface Winds - in hopes of an
article
on the matter.

- Andrew

I'm all ears. Who's this Larry?

I am ready to fight this to the very end.

I am eligible to become a citizen within 6 months to a year so this is
almost a non-issue for me. It's a matter of principle though.

They are stiflying GA. They are starting with Permanent Residents but think
about that: who's next? People that have bad driving records? People older
than 60 years of age?

All you need is a couple of "coincidental" accidents involving a particular
group of pilots and they'll impose regulations to stop them.

They are taking aside the "minorities" inside GA, one by one, and eroding us
one at the time .

That's the way I see it.

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Marco Rispoli - NJ, USA / PP-ASEL
My on-line aviation community - http://www.thepilotlounge.com

On Sun, 26 Sep 2004 00:47:53 GMT, Marco Rispoli wrote:

I am eligible to become a citizen within 6 months to a year so this is
almost a non-issue for me. It's a matter of principle though.

hm, I would ask the question if I want to be a citizen within such an
environment. Because *then* it is *your* government doing these things.

It is just changing the side of the fence.

aviation content: IMHO these actions all affect the aviation business and
hurts economically. How many FBOs went bankrupt after 9/11? How many will
follow? How much many stays outside of the country because of the bad
climate?
Hm, this is r.a.p: are there any such things in Canada? Maybe I should plan
my next holiday there?

#m

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"big corporations" as if they were messengers of evil, when, in fact,
corporations represent the ultimate, perfect expression of communal
ownership of capital. (Jay Honeck in r.a.p.)

Marco Rispoli wrote:

"Andrew Gideon" wrote in message
online.com...

I wonder if it's worth
contacting Larry - the fellow behind Surface Winds - in hopes of an
article
on the matter.

- Andrew

I'm all ears. Who's this Larry?

The editor of "Surface Winds". He's also active in Chapter 73 of the EAA,
but I don't know the details.

[...]
They are stiflying GA.

Well, we're inconvenient to them. We're outside the system that is their
reason for being. To prove that they are needed, there must be nothing
outside their system.

Then there are bozos like that Weiner fellow from NY that act out of simple
ignorance and a failure to recognize that ignorance and wisdom are not
equal.

- Andrew