[AZ-Observing] Re: Cherry Rd II - the site

 
Well George if I was Stuck with a $150.00 dollar fine for  being in a place I 
was not supposed to be. I would call it the wrath of one of  the arms of the 
Federal Bureaucracy. What are you going to do. fight it in a  court of law 
after you have spent $5000.00 for a lawyer for a $150.00 dollar  fine then the 
Judge out of spite decides to raise the fine for wasting his time.  How about 
ascertaining our legal status first so we avoid those kinds of  problems in the 
1st place. And BTW it really is not a Govt by the people and for  the people 
it seized being that more than 50 years ago. The Gov't can  now take your 
property and can incarcerate you for no good reason at all.  Why give the Govt 
any 
more amunition to use against you than they already  have. It may come down to 
someday that if you want to go out and observe with a  telescope you are 
going to have to do it on someones property more than likey  your own property 
because the Gov't lands will be off limits. This is why we  ascertain whether 
or 
not 5 mile meadow is going to be open this weekend or not.  Just becasue lands 
are listed as federal or BLM land Public lands are not free  just to go out 
on and do what ever you want to do, you need to get permission  especially if 
its a large group such as ours. 
 
Clear Skies
Dwight L Bogan
 
 
 
In a message dated 6/19/2006 6:29:23 PM US Mountain Standard Time,  
gkolb@xxxxxxxxx writes:


My  only suggestion is to return to the initial frame of mind we had in  
finding our early dark sky sites.  It is getting harder and harder to  find 
and maintain good dark sky sites.  Blaming the government and  other negative 
comments only proves to add to the problem.  I meant  no disrespect to anyone 
on this forum.  I'm just sensitive to  allogations against the government, 
and anyone - ref the text: "the wrath  of some federal bureaucracy?"  The 
government is made up of people  like you and me.  It is simple in my mind, 
either do something, run  for office or stop complaining.

Regards -  George







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