Is it a complete co-incidence? I doubt it. So OK, let's look at this one for a moment...
We know little if anything about the political slant of Rep. Rahall. Nor do we know why he was the sponsor of the HR #5361. Was he (or his staff) convinced by good arguments from the KP1-5 Project? Was he concerned about why US citizens were banned from US territories under arbitrary policies? Or was he just looking for an excuse to put F&WS under the microscope? (And that's just a few possibilities, we can come up with a few thousand more, but you get the drift). So, now the status of the Islands has been elevated to be on his (or his staff's) radar. Then comes a complaint from an unknown party about the recent KP5 op. As I mentioned earlier, we know nothing induhvidual except that they claim to be a ham. And we all know what happened after that. IMHO, it DOES NOT neccesarily follow that there's a direct connection between the KP1-5 Project and the "Club Fed" blast. We don't know who the complaining amateur was, so we don't know if that person had a connection of any sort with the KP1-5 group; and if there was a connection, we don't know if the complaint was made by that person on their own behalf or the groups. We DON'T KNOW, we can only speculate. We also don't know the motives behind the "Club Fed" paper. Yeah, yeah, sure, all on behalf of We The People, right? Or was this a political salvo aimed at the Executive Branch, using the facts about the KP5 op as a thin disguise for political intrigue and tit-for-tat? And I seem to recall reading last December and January, when some started pointing fingers at the KP1-5 Project, that they were pretty unhappy to be blamed for the shutdown. I'm pretty sure that they denied any connection. I couldn't make Dayton this year (the good news, we close on the house at 4:00 today!) so I didn't hear what anyone had to say. I'm just saying that we can't assume that the KP1-5 group had a hand in these latest goings on, and we shouldn't be so hasty as to start pointing fingers until we have a lot more facts in hand. 73, ron w3wn From: Michael Keane K1MK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu Jun 29 09:37:35 CDT 2006 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [DX-CHAT] Desecheo I. answers At 09:22 AM 6/29/06, Scott Manthe wrote: >Like it or not, our politics drive our actions. And unfortunately, I >didn't bring politics in to this, Rep. Rahall did and whoever >complained to him did. Just so everyone is aware of the amateur radio (not partisan) political connections at work here... It's can't be a complete coincidnce that Rep. Rahall (who is mentioned in the "Club Fed" report) happens to be the sponsor of H.R. 1183. The bill being lobbied for by the KP1/5 Project which would require the Secretary of the Interior to provide public access to the Navassa and Desecheo NRWs. <http://www.kp1-5.com/pdf/HR1183.pdf> <http://www.kp1-5.com/pdf/background.pdf> <http://www.kp1-5.com/pdf/rahallletterislands.pdf> 73, Mike K1MK Michael Keane K1MK [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe/unsubscribe, feedback, FAQ, problems http://njdxa.org/dx-chat To post a message, DX related items only, [email protected] This is the DX-CHAT reflector sponsored by the NJDXA http://njdxa.org Subscribe/unsubscribe, feedback, FAQ, problems http://njdxa.org/dx-chat To post a message, DX related items only, [email protected] This is the DX-CHAT reflector sponsored by the NJDXA http://njdxa.org
