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Originally Posted by wardfoto
"...3. figure out t.l.c.a is a car club that donates to land use orgs, NOT a land use org...."
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Which is exactly why land use organizations and local orv leaders treat the majority orv community out there with such little respect; as I've described in detail above.
You guys may enjoy being told to keep your mouths shut when motorcyclists grab our land/put up barriers; 50 vs 60" trail issues are rightly debated or even when 'untouchable' anonymous councils are brought out into the light of day...yet frankly, this is where blindly 'donating'
only stops for me.
Proudly declaring that you are NOT a land use organization and simply "a car club" certainly puts my original intentions as to forming a Michigan TLCA chapter here in perspective. It also answers a glaring question I've had from the beginning as to how somebody could ever go from leading a bunch of guys with this 'donate
only' attitude...to becomming the #1 leader of the
recipient of those same funds.
It's not about insisting that your position or anyone else's should 'rule the day' folks....it's about whether that undisputed and factually proven position ever actually
sees 'the light of day' in the first place.(which is why you see nothing but personal attacks here....and not even one counter-claim or rebuttal on
any of the issues brought forward for the sake of our future generation's opportunity to get involved in orv issues).
And if you guys are about describing yourselves as simply/only "a car club" while covering the land use/maintenance/legacy part of our off-road responsibilities with an unquestioned "donation only" and a bumper sticker to sone far-off west-focused national organization...then I'm saying that your kids will most certainly miss out on the grass-roots involvement
needed in their future quests to access those same lands that you do so together today.
'Bumper stickers' don't stop motorcyclists from shutting down our trails forever or being dragged kicking and screaming into this majority community and the 60" width law that they've wanted us to ignore for years...orv leaders who don't have to strap a set on for every question asked...
DO.