If we kick down bootleggers doors, what will we do when they kick down our 
doors for things they don't like.

-----Original Message----- 
From: Harry Brown
Sent: Friday, June 08, 2012 12:07 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: confrontation on the air? what do you all think about this 
topic?

Hi Pat, so, who will do it, if we don't?
Trippy, ac8s
  ----- Original Message -----=20
  From: Pat Byrne=20
  To: [log in to unmask]
  Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2012 8:32 PM
  Subject: Re: confrontation on the air? what do you all think about =
this topic?


  It sounds like anarchy to me.  i'd never be a part of it and damned=20
  if I wouldn't see that the anarchists wound up in jail were it to =
happen to me.
  And going back a step, it is HAM radio.  We are not a bunch of=20
  perfectionistic a-holes who spend all day beating up on one another.
  Enough is enough.
  Pat, K9JAUt 05:24 PM 6/7/2012, you wrote:
  >Hi all,
  >Since we've been talking about different ham radio lingo, etc.
  >I wanted to go another direction, and I want to know what you all =
think.
  >As you know, riley Hollingsworth, who was known for this cracking =
down =3D
  >on rule violaters on the air, isn't doing that any more, since he =3D
  >retired.
  >I remember the day when I read that, and I thought to myself, "what =
will =3D
  >we hams do now?"
  >Then, I read an article, that gave me the answer.
  >I don't remember where it was, whether in QST, or where it was, but =
it =3D
  >said something like this, "We hams will have to police the hobby, as =
the =3D
  >FCC won't have the resources to do it in the future."
  >I strongly agree with this article.
  >This is our hobby, and the FCC does indeed, not have the resources, =
and =3D
  >budget cuts will probably make this situation even worse.
  >So, how should we police ourselves on the air?
  >As a matter of fact, I heard about one way it was done, and I think =
it's =3D
  >pretty cool.
  >A local ham friend of myne was talking to a 4th call area station =
down =3D
  >in Georgia, and they were having a real enjoyable QSO, and all the =
=3D
  >sudden, my friend heard this big bang, noise. Another ham grabbed the =
=3D
  >microphone, and said "this station, ...., is a boot leg station, and =
=3D
  >will now be taken off the air."
  >My ham friend never heard this boot legger station again!
  >He said to me, "Trippy, I loved it, absolutely loved it, the hams in =
=3D
  >that community took matters into their own hands!"
  >So, what do you all think about this issue?
  >Trippy, ac8s