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Here's the entire text. This needs to be stopped before it gets started.
INHO this is far worse than any user fee. The loss of the freedoms that our
forefathers (and some brothers as well as ourselves) have committed to
defend for our entire lives. Seems quite unfair. Email your State and US
representatives and indicate how disgusted you are with this. Do it now!
OHIO ANTI-TERRORISM EFFORT TARGETS AIRCRAFT OWNERS
Ohio aircraft owners have been singled out by the state to sign a
declaration with their annual aircraft registration renewal that they are
not involved in terrorist activity. They are the only license holders under
the state's department of transportation required to do this. AOPA and
aircraft owners are extremely displeased at this discrimination. The
association, on behalf of member pilots, has requested that the state remove
this requirement. "Frankly, it is offensive to Ohio's pilot population to
suggest that they are more suspect than people who own boats, trucks, or
automobiles," wrote Greg Pecoraro, AOPA vice president of regional affairs,
in a letter to the state's department of public safety. "Ohio's aircraft
owners and pilots are committed to do their part to support our nation's
security." Pecoraro cited pilots' voluntary participation in Airport Watch.
Download AOPA's letter to the state.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Hartmut Beil" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Friends.
I read the following in the latest AOPA letter.
"Ohio aircraft owners have been singled out by the state to sign a
declaration with their annual aircraft registration renewal that they are
not involved in terrorist activity"
I am frustrated about how society is using any excuse to turn against
General Aviation.
If we do not fight this with all the power we have, one might end up like
we
did here Germany where Government made it law to require any Pilot to give
a
way all rights of his privacy and of his family too when renewing his
license. License renewal happens every 2 years for German pilots.
German pilots have to sign an agreement to pay for any investigation of
the
German institutions comparable to the FBI,CIA, local Police and the
security department of the locals Aviation Safety Office. One has to name
the place where lived for the last 10 years and in cases give detailed
explanations on any civil law suits one was involved in.
To add insult to injury, the state also forces us Pilots to pay for any of
the investigations.
My brother refused to sign this ridiculous piece of intrusion into our
personal lives and his license got revoked immediately.
The local office was eager to have him surrender his license, they acted
happily - ignoring the fact that without pilots they are out of a job
either.
However. I hear of car bombs every day, yet there is no driver in the
world
a suspect. Why we pilots and aircraft owners?
9/11 th? If so then we should require anybody who boards a Commercial
airliner to sign a declaration that they are not terrorists. THAT would be
logical and just.
Hartmut
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