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Originally Posted by ginericfj80
"...I've signed up for everything I can to be notified of meetings etc... And then I keep up with them. I keep signing up and writing letters. If I don't I know I'll get dropped out of the loop.
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If you are worried about getting dropped out of the loop with that kind of genuine and admired effort...what in the heck are
OUR national orv organizations
doing about that problem?
I've just spent the past week being informed that these same big orv 'non-profits' asking for our money all the time....can't "force" the USFS or state personnel to actually
post the fact that they will be attending meetings sponsored
by these same people to foster "communication" with the rest of us!
One points out a very SIMPLE error affecting the deadline for us mere 4-wheeled 'peons' out here who keep their lights on and their kids fed...and they send you
back an e-mail pointing out exactly who they have mailed with accusations that you are 'plotting' to disrupt the whole damn meeting itself! (heck, they don't even answer you
directly....they just reply with a list of people and conversations they've had
about you!).
Let's see...I'm supposed to send my money into some national orv organization who doesn't even recognize the
importance of actually encouraging my state employees to spread the word in regards to meetings both they and these arrogant idiots put on for supposedly "us" and them.
And if the AMA or any of their affiliated crony organizations show up to grab large chunks of our public forest for forever "me-only" single track...
every damn one of us had better keep our damn mouths
shut while these arrogant and elitist cyclists snatch whatever land they can grab behind closed doors while in the process of dividing this orv community even further into oblivion (not to mention encouraging these bozos to teach every one of their kids that they are somehow "special" compared to the balance of the motorized community and that
rude arrogance is indeed a 'way of life' in their wacked out community).
Yeah, you're in-explainably working your butt to keep informed....and I'm wondering why that is so damn tough
to do in the first place.(I'm finding that it just depends on what rig you ride here in Michigan and if you'll keep your mouth shut when it comes to the "shared trails" concept that these guys hope we'll 'bite on' with our "no questions allowed or we'll disparage your character" membership money year after year.