[TheForge] *****SPAM***** Re: Criminal Background Check

[Andrew Vida]

Bob Willman wrote:
> 	As amateur radio operators we can be called upon to volunteer with
> disasters of one sort or another. One of the professional organizations we
> work with is the Red Cross. They required a background check for all
> volunteers. Their regular consent form also allowed them to do a financial
> means check. They could not give a good reason for the financial check
> except that it was standard policy and everybody did it. Most all amateurs
> nationwide declined to sign the form and they eventually removed that
> requirement. It took intervention on a national level from ARRL to get them
> to see the light.
> 	Be careful and read before you sign.  

	Sage words, and an excellent example of how these yahoos can be 
resisted.  As I said, if enough refuse to be mastered, they are forced 
to make a choice - abandon the attempt or ratchet up the heat.  Either 
way, we win.