[SixClub] RED CROSS Background checks

[Roger (K8RI)]

Randy Wing wrote:
> I am not a member of Red Cross, but I am of the Salvation Army.
>
> The ARRL and The Red Cross just agreed to get RID of the financial
> background checks.  That is an improvement.  Now what is left is Name, SSN,
> and Criminal Background Checks.  Which by the way is the same as if you were
> getting checked to drive a school bus.
>   
Or every time I purchase a firearm.
I'm glad to see the RC dropped that original background check.  They 
actually (according to one ARRL letter) did lifestyle checks. No not 
that kind <:-)),  but whether you were in their estimation living beyond 
your means. In today's society that's over half the population.
> http://www.remote.arrl.org/news/stories/2008/05/18/10104/?nc=1
>
> Frankly, I am glad that these organizations check that there isn't a
> pedophile, a murderer, or a cop-killer in amongst my co-volunteers.
>
>   
In Michigan that doesn't mean much.  They have one of those idiotic 
"zero tolerance" policies so the teen ager who got a bit foolish is 
listed right along  with the true predators  with no distinction made.  
For that matter there was a girl from a nearby university on a  nature 
hike  in relatively remote woods  way up near the top of the state.  
Nature called, she hid behind a bush, some one spotted and reported 
her.  She is now on the register as an offender. (That story was in the 
local newspaper a year or two back). They've made that law so inclusive 
they've removed the true meaning and ruined a lot of kids lives.
> If that means that an occasional records-mistake is found and someone gets
> banned that shouldn't be - temporarily - at least you have a chance to find
> this out before you get a speeding ticket and get hauled off to jail.
>   
> Do we really want a few bad-volunteers to ruin the reputation of an entire
> volunteer organization?  
That's not, or wasn't the problem with the original background checks. 
They were far too invasive and inclusive. 


Randy Wing, N0LD
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> [mailto:sixclub-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Richard J. Fiero II
> W5TFW
> Sent: Sunday, May 18, 2008 11:37 AM
> To: sixclub at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: [SixClub] RED CROSS Background checks
>
> the latest  Column on the ARRL web Page seems to indicate that the RED CROSS
>
> will still do Background checks on US,  MY Curiosity overwhelms me.  How 
> many of you guys are still willing to help the RED CROSS in a disaster ? 
> Personally, I go to the Louisiana State Off of Emergency Communications to 
> help out.
>
>  Please contact me of list about this this is just personal curiosity. 
> w5tfw at cox.net
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