Just Bought A Plane? STAY OUT OF FLORIDA !

Jay Maynard wrote:
On 2008-04-03, BobR wrote:
No credible publication should be accepted when used as a personal
vehicle for attacking ones perceived enemy's in print for public use
without providing the victims a venue for debate or to counter the
story. Campbell has used his printed magazine and now his web based
publication for just that purpose for a long time. When people
started using the usenet to counter some of his lies, he tried to
silence them with lawsuits and threats of lawsuits.

So if people here don't seem to accept anything he prints, it is not
without justification.

All of this would be relevant if it was just Zoom. It's not just Zoom.


Here's how this all played out.

1. Fl DOF writes a poorly worded website designed to read by FLORIDA
aircraft brokers and dealers.

2. Zoom publishes his story that the sky is falling.

3. Lots of people read that the sky is falling.

4. A subset of the people mentioned in 3 are AOPA and EAA members so
they call/e-mail AOPA and EAA to see if the sky is falling.

5. The EAA and AOPA look outside and see that the sky is not falling but
need conformation from the FL DOF to prove the sky is not falling.

6. The FL DOF being the same bunch of idiots that produced the poorly
worded website to begin with are, as mentioned above idiots, and won't
come out and say that they have no power to tax someone that has no
connection with Florida other than flying an airplane there because it
is the FL DOF job to drag in as much money as they possible can and they
might some day figure out how to do just that. But they so have the gust
to at least say they aren't going to be camped out at SNF.

Now let's look at the chain and see what could have been removed and
there be no problem.

#1 No, sure they could have written the page better but it is correct if
read by the people it is aimed at.

#3. No, that's what the Internet is for.

#4 & #5 No, that's what the EAA & AOPA is for.

#6 No, They are state employees.

That leaves #2.