01-31-2015, 12:53 PM
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Master Modeler
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Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Fairbanks, Alaska
Posts: 6,507
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Originally Posted by ghrocketman
I'm tellin' ya, just USE the PUBLIC fields until thrown off, and then make THEM show you in a WRITTEN manner why your activity is NOT allowed on PUBLIC property.
Use the law AGAINST them.
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That should be a *last* option, not the first one. It's better to work within the rules first because, as G. Harry Stine and many others have found, it's better to win over officials (by "giving them something *they* want"--i.e., using model rocketry to keep kids out of trouble and encourage them to do better in school). If that doesn't work (and it sometimes doesn't), folks in power often "cave" when citizens who want to engage in rocketry show up in numbers (they'd rather not confront citizens, especially if they're polite yet firm, and are doing it for the children as well as for themselves). If all else fails, *then* is the time to engage in the model rocketry form of civil disobedience, with happy children and smiles all around, and on *video* ("The whole world is watching!"), because it makes the powers-that-be look like the fools that they are. |