Isn’t it great to have a President that gives it right back to them?

Did you mean salutes...or how about the middle finger?

Rape, murder, burglary and robbery YES. I disagree with the bill to eliminate life without parole. That’s crazy! Chris Watts has life without parole for killing his wife and babies and stuffing his babies into oil tanks. This bitch would change the law so he could some day get out. That’s nuts!

I reluctantly agree eliminate death penalty but only because of rampant widespread prosecutorial misconduct. A wrongly convicted person always has a chance of being exonerated as long as they’re alive.

But for lesser crimes and so called victimless crimes, here’s the problem with your statement “if you can’t do the time don’t do the crime”, it’s not just the convict who is punished, it’s his family. His lost income, damages relationships. His woman moves on. He loses years of his kids lives and the kids lose their father or mother, that lost time causes irreparable damage.

It damages society. While you are in prison the world moves on without you and when you get out, you’re behind. You have to catch up with technology and other changes. Having a record severely damages your ability to get a job. This is one of the things Trump’s law is addressing, helping these guys reintegrate. But it would be better if they never went in the first place, especially for something as stupid as being caught with a bag of weed.

Many are youth, stupid youth, who don’t yet realize long term consequences of their actions. If they kill someone that’s different, put them away forever just to protect the rest of us. But we are ruining lives over pot. A thing way less dangerous than legal alcohol for chrissakes.

I did a search and found something about it.

They symbol looked to me like the "OK" symbol.  I never saw it as a white power symbol.  I don't even know what a "white power" symbol looks like.  But I do know what a "black power" symbol looks like and I never hear much complaining about that.

The private pilot community is very small relative to other interests among the population so the same people tend to congregate in just a few forums. And these people get together in real life, have real relationships, so saying, “if you don’t like a policy just go elsewhere there are forums to talk about politics,” does not apply. It’s not an interchangeable set of strangers.

It all started around 1998 or pretty much the beginning of forums in general, when the first forums were started by real life friends and lovers even. Amongst these, there became a division between people who want to discuss politics (on both liberal and conservative side) and people who do not, and those who do not include a subset who want only aviation discussed. The attempt to contain political debate of the first group by the second group has been happening ever since, and it evolved over the years to become ever more restrictive until finally, on the AOPA board 2.0 (the Red Board) the subset who wanted only airplane talk won. That board banned ALL subjects not related to aviation and as a result slowly withered and died.

It was a progression starting with complete freedom of speech and ending with very tightly controlled speech. So pilotspin came full circle back to where we started, with the first group of people who want complete freedom to say anything. And from here, we are watching the PoA board like a replay of history, as it becomes ever more heavy handed in restricting what other people can talk about. And ironically the PoA board had spun off from the AOPA board when it became too restrictive. It’s like watching the United States become autocratic after we spun off from King George.

And it is all an outgrowth of real life relationships. It does not matter that technically so’n’so owns the board so they can set the rules. It’s like this: Picture a family get together. Some like to talk politics but others do not. After dinner they congregate in separate rooms. Daddy and some relatives who want to talk politics are in the living room while mommy and those who don’t are in the kitchen talking about casseroles or whatever. Little Johnny is in the kitchen and says, “President Trump came to my school today!”  And mommy says, “You know the rule Johnny, no political talk in the kitchen!” And she puts him over her knee and spanks him.

Mommy might set the rules in the kitchen but she is still being a controlling bitch. Daddy cares what happens in the kitchen because he used to be allowed to talk politics in the kitchen but now mommy has changed the rules. New people marry into the family and side with one or the other so the groups evolve over the years, but the core dynamic is the same: mommy’s group wants to control and limit what daddy’s group talks about. Remember, in the very beginning there were no separate sub forums. “Mommy’s” group wanted to control speech everywhere. That is the historical source of what you sense we won’t let go; we rightly remember that these people are actually control freaks. That’s why their moderation tends to grow tighter and tighter with time. We’ve run this race before and we’ve seen how it ends. Mommy is never happy until daddy is kicked out of the house and nobody can talk about anything except casseroles.