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Old 04-05-2007, 01:36 PM   #1
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The officers of WBCCI don't seem to be listening to the members. Perhaps we can get their attention if more members do what robandzoe did (http://www.airforums.com/forum...n-24626-7.html, post 89) and cancel their reservation for International and let the office know that it is because of the motorhome and the Capetown to Cario caravan decisions by the Executive Committee and the IBT. Maybe we can get their attention.
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Old 04-05-2007, 02:07 PM   #2
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The officers of WBCCI don't seem to be listening to the members. Perhaps we can get their attention if more members do what robandzoe did (http://www.airforums.com/forum...n-24626-7.html, post 89) and cancel their reservation for International and let the office know that it is because of the motorhome and the Capetown to Cario caravan decisions by the Executive Committee and the IBT. Maybe we can get their attention.
I certainly understand why Rob made his decision, we spoke for quite a while last night about this, however I believe that canceling ones International reservation this year, because of the motorhome motion, is a bit hasty. I would suggest that members who are against this motion attend the delegates meeting when the discussion and vote is held and if the meeting is open to public comment you get up and tell them what you think and what passing this motion means to you and what the consequences to your WBCCI membership will be.

However, cancelling or not attending any Region or International sponsored rally, special event or caravan is a different subject and that action may have an immediate impact.

In addition, if there is a possibility to speak publicly before the vote for International officers, you do the same thing. We never planned on attending this years International for two specific reasons; 1) not enough vacation time and 2) no current plans to go to Georgia in June and July.

We are planning on attending the 2008 International in Bozeman, but those plans may change if the motorhome motion passes.

Just my personal opinion.

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Old 04-05-2007, 02:10 PM   #3
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i have seen several posts about this issue. can someone please tell me where i can get all the info about this? i would like to make an intelligent decision based on all facts available. thanks, cheryl.
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i have seen several posts about this issue. can someone please tell me where i can get all the info about this? i would like to make an intelligent decision based on all facts available. thanks, cheryl.
Cheryl,

There are several posts here in the WBCCI forum (http://www.airforums.com/forums/f286/), on the WBCCI forum at the WBCCI website (WBCCI Forum -) and on SaveWally.org.

Also the company line has been in the past and current Blue Beret.

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Old 04-05-2007, 02:51 PM   #5
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In a "Roberts Rules" organization, when you Abstain from voting, you are essentially voting with the majority. If you feel strongly about something, you need to show-up and vote. Cancelling, is essentially the same as abstaining.
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Well I don't know...

IMHO, and that's all it is, I have paid to be there. I have volunteered while I am there. I am new to all this and my very first trailer trip was to Sarasota.

I have sent my feelings as a new member to several officers and one is on the way to my region President. I have every intention to follow up with individuals while I am there...but I will not "quit" the club as I have met some wonderful people in my short time as a member.

I agree that this should NOT pass. BUT, even if it does, this will not help with membership. As it has been noted on another thread how some other manufacturer had a "brand club" with losing memberships. So they opened it to all, and you guessed it, they kept losing to members.

Tell the new "other brand" motorhome owners to join FMCA.... they will have a good time! and leave the silver trailer folks to our own "good times".
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Won't be too difficult of a task for me!

Not that I can blame anyone for feeling this way.....
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In a "Roberts Rules" organization, when you Abstain from voting, you are essentially voting with the majority. If you feel strongly about something, you need to show-up and vote. Cancelling, is essentially the same as abstaining.
Not quite- by the general membership boycotting there is no effect of the deligates voting. I can assure you that there will be no public imput allowed at the delegate voting session. I really wouldn't be surprised if the IBT closed the doors to non-delegates. The first step is that each unit must vote on the issues. Please be sure to vote at your Spring Business meeting. I will not tell anyone how to vote, please just vote! Those votes are supposed to go to your deligate who will then vote according to the total of the units votes for that region. Each unit has a different vote tabulation process. Some submit the actual votes to the delegates, other units tally the votes and the majority wins all the votes the unit has for the national convention. If the IBT is worried about lossing members, wait till this change passes. I'm with Rob. I have a lot of better things to do then spend time in the middle of this real mess. Those folks who we have given the responsibility of watching over our wonderful Airstream club have lost touch with what we, the WBCCI are all about. God Save Wally! I'm staying home!
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Old 04-05-2007, 04:05 PM   #9
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Maybe we can get their attention.
thank you.

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"The teacher asks her high school American history class:

"Can anyone tell me who started the American Revolution?"

Several hands immediately shot up, the teacher picks the hand belonging to her best student, a thin intellectual looking boy wearing thick glasses who says,
"King George III. He was a stupid blockhead who allowed his Ministers too much power and they oppressed the colonists with high taxes causing them to revolt."

"Wrong," said the teacher and picked the hand of her next best student, an attractive red headed girl with lovely blue eyes and an intelligent face who stated with authority,
"George Washington started the American Revolution.
He wanted to be a British general but was turned down because he was a colonist, and not a true Briton.
So in response to this put down, Washington made himself first a general and then later first president of the United States."

"Wrong," said the teacher who then picked the hand of an intelligent, yet lazy student who never received more than a "B" from her. The boy said,

"Sam Adams. The guy they named the beer after that my dad loves so well.
Sam Adams was the Father of the American Revolution due to the fact that he wanted revenge against the British because they ruined his father
and forced him to wait on tables in order to get a college education.
He never forgave or forgot this insult to his beloved father and himself.
He was the driving force behind, 'The Sons Of Liberty' who spread revolutionary thought and action all over the colonies.
George Washington was a moderate who believed in compromise with the British until 1774 -- the eve of the Revolution."

"Right," said the teacher, "Sam Adams was the prime mover of the American Revolution.
An ocean of ink has been spilled to account for the reasons why our Revolution happened,
but without the actions of a very determined individual some sort of compromise with the British would have been done.

"Class," the teacher continued,
"You will find that history is made by very determined individuals."

There are, of course, mass movements, but these are always the creation of a rugged individualist who can be good or evil. The Prime Mover.
The Atlas...."
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Old 04-05-2007, 04:49 PM   #10
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well people if you don't go or cancel you will be allowing the people in power to do what they want.so don't go and allow the sob's in. your choice.
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Old 04-05-2007, 05:00 PM   #11
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At 8:30am on Saturday June 30th there is in fact a Delegates Seminar. That is open to all members to speak out on issues before the club.

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Wouldn't it be great to see the public comment section last until about 5:00 PM?

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Old 04-05-2007, 05:01 PM   #12
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Exclamation Don't Miss the Rally at Perry!

PLEASE KNOW THAT THE INTERNATIONAL RALLY IS AN IMPORTANT TIME FOR ALL MEMBERS

The International Rally is where the Business of the club takes place.
Any member interested in the business of the club should attend the International Rally.

Just to reinerate what was previously posted in this thread...

THE IBT (International Board of Trustees) and the Delegates' SEMINARS that happen at the International Rally site are really the Members' Forums where members may take the floor to speak about an issue.

You go to the microphone, state your name, Unit name, and whether you speak for or against a motion. Then you have a few minutes to state your position on the issue that is on the floor.

The IBT Seminar will be Saturday, June 23 at 8:30 AM.
The IBT Meeting will be Tuesday, June 26 at 8 AM or just after the Executive Committee meets. The IBT votes on Bylaws and Policy.

The Delegates' Seminar will begin at 8:30 AM on Saturday, June 30 and will then be followed by the Delegates' meeting. The Delegates cast their Unit's votes (or vote their conscious if directed to do so by their Unit) on Constitutional issues such as the motorhome issue.

Members may speak at the Seminars but not at the meetings. You may, however, attend the meetings and observe.

Don't miss the International Rally at Perry!

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Old 04-05-2007, 06:15 PM   #13
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"[I]The teacher asks her high school American history class:
"Can anyone tell me who started the American Revolution?"

One should make a distinction between the “American Revolution” and the “American Revolutionary War.” Two different events, the first was the cause the second was a result. We all know about when the war started but the American Revolution was started here with revolutionary ideas that simmered over a long period dating back to the 17th century. It might still be going on.

We want a restorative WBCCI revolution, a revival not a war.
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Old 04-05-2007, 07:05 PM   #14
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Please, please don't boycott the International this year. There will always be the usual 500 or so early workers that show up at every International. If we boycott, they will rule the roost.

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Old 04-05-2007, 07:07 PM   #15
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Standing Fast!

I'm a LEO too! and my mind is made up! I'm just sick and tired of where all this has been, and is going, and maybe it's finally time to begin anew. I've spoken, let my unit President know my feelings, and asked him to send my concerns (my letter) on to our Region 2 President so that he knows how I feel. I am acting. I've written a letter, and am standing my ground and not going to International! More than most have done! This is to support my friend Bert Kalet and Pete Daniels (two huge WBCCI fans - whom I met through the WBCCI) and how they were treated by the IBT - the IBT took forever and pulled the rug out from under them, with a lame letter and no notice - not even an inkling that they would be willing to help to FIND A WAY! So, I'm doing what they did (our leaders - yeah, right) just on the other end. Who's following? Then, maybe then, they will see the light! I wish the IBT would have even put forth (for the amount of time they took to get the CCCC guys an answer) an effort to poll the units on how they felt about backing the Caravan - but no. I'll vote and will be counted - No to the MHs and Yes to the Caravan (but oh yeah, there is no vote on that - so it becomes No to the International) SYDTR!
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Old 04-05-2007, 07:10 PM   #16
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Flood them with opinions!

Actually in this case by boycotting the International you are saying I give up and you win.

Just the opposite should happen. Everyone who can attend should go and give them an earful. Let them know how you feel. Let them know you want the m out of office and why. Specifics not generalities get results. However you need to be heard.

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well cats/n/others...

it would be nice IF one could demonstrate or protest or fully express an opposing view at the international...

you cannot.

folks attempting this would be escorted off the fairgrounds or asked to keep quite/leave.

withdrawing from the rally otoh is HUGE.

because rally fees are involved...

fees that go to support the officers and other lemmings.

while it's true this is THE legislative event of the year....

the public sessions are a minor 'show' at the main event....

a loss of shiny silver bullets is a powerful statement...

that keeps ringing and ringing and ringing.

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another powerful expression at salem would be...

for ALL trailers in opposition to the caravan decision or the moho fiasco...

TO LEAVE EARLY TOGETHER!

a train of trailers pulling out would be an amazing site,

and so symbolic of the club decline.
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Old 04-05-2007, 07:31 PM   #18
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Not the way I see it!

You see it as they winning - I don't see it as a Win / Lose game - I see it as a principle, a club about adventure, that they just don't get! Will they get it if I am there - highly doubt it. Will they get it if I am not - highly doubt it. By principle, I am not attending.

They just aren't getting any more of my money (the IBT nor the current Pres - this is his rally - his location) than what is necessary to remain. I'll continue to pay dues - up until they vote yes - then it's an immediate letter to cancel my membership. You really think they won't vote Yes to let the MHs in - they want members and $$$$$ ($$$$ makes the world go round!)

Good luck with that! Let's hope they vote no, but I'm not holding my breath!

They win? Not if they lose a member! There are other Vintage Clubs out there - that I already belong too - They will win!
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Well since I cannot attend most WBCCI rallies due to work schedule and with all the controversy when I get my renewal this year I will politely decline. I have already removed my WBCCI numbers. I need to get my blue AIR numbers.
I have been to one WBCCI unit rally and I was un-comfortable. It was my first Airstream rally. I have been to two AIR forums rallies and immediately felt comfortable. More my kind of people. I made my choice. Whats yours?
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"Sam Adams was the prime mover of the American Revolution.
It figures you'd go with the popular beermeister. For my money, Sam's cantankerous lawyer cousin was the prime mover. That's right, our 1st VP and 2nd President.

John Adams wrote quite persuasively in Thoughts on Government a clear articulation of the classical theory of mixed government and, in particular, how it related to the emerging American situation. Adams contended, with remarkable force, the necessary existence of social estates in any political society, and the need to precisely mirror those social estates in the political structures of the society. For centuries, dating back to Aristotle, a mixed regime balancing monarchy, aristocracy, and democracy, or the monarch, nobles, and people was required to preserve order and liberty. Adams, viewing the world through an Enlightenment mind-set, thought all American state constitutions needed to exhibit a wise balance much like the ancient English Constitution had for so long. What was problematic with the English version, and indeed what plagued the entire ancient regime, was its understanding of the hereditary aristocracy. To me, the WBCCI is run much like a hereditary aristocracy. Could you or I ever be elected International President if we chose to throw our hats into the ring? Hell no! Of course we couldn't. Adams and his fellow American political thinkers strongly rejected any hereditary nobility holding political power by virtue of birth. Such people lacked the necessary virtue to balance the people in the legislature, Adams thought, and were prone to corruption.
Using the tools of Republicanism in the United States the patriots believed it was corrupt and nefarious aristocrats, in the English Parlaiment and stationed in America, who were guilty of the British assault on American liberty. Unlike others, Adams thought that the definition of a republic had to do with its ends, rather than its means. He wrote in Thoughts on Government, "there is no good government but what is republican. The very definition of a republic is 'an empire of laws, and not of men.'" Thoughts on Government defended bicameralism, but in place of an inherited aristocracy based on birth, a "natural aristocracy" based on merit and talent would suffice. It would not be hereditary and its political power depended on the votes of the people. A distinguished group of independent, virtuous gentlemen, as Adams put it, could adequately balance the passions of the people represented in the lower house of the legislature. Unfortunately for us still in the WBCCI, our club has morphed into a quasi-hereditary aristocracy.

Thoughts on Government's new rendition of the classical theory of mixed government was enormously influential and established John, not Sam, as the prime mover.

Now back to our regularly scheduled program.

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