On Wed, 31 Oct 2007 17:23:28 -0400, penned the following
well considered thoughts to the readers of rec.boats:

|On Wed, 31 Oct 2007 15:55:16 -0400, Gene Kearns
wrote:
|
|On Wed, 31 Oct 2007 18:50:30 GMT, penned the following
|well considered thoughts to the readers of rec.boats:
|
||On Wed, 31 Oct 2007 14:16:17 -0400, Gene Kearns
wrote:
||
||On Wed, 31 Oct 2007 12:13:36 -0400, penned the following
||well considered thoughts to the readers of rec.boats:
||
||On Wed, 31 Oct 2007 07:17:12 -0700, Chuck Gould
wrote:
||
||USA Today reports this morning that Homeland Security has ordered one
||of its divisions, (the USCG) to define a plan to positively identify
||boaters. The rationale is that small boats could be loaded with
||explosives and used to
||blow up military or commercial vessels, ala USS Cole. Until the USCG
||presents its plan we don't know the details, but possible requirements
||*could* include, at a minimum, carrying a national Boater ID card.
||(Something the Administration seems to favor, based on its proposals
||in several areas).
||
||
||
||I don't know where USA Today got their information, but the USCG
||proposal specifically REJECTS creation of any additional or special
||ID. They adamantly DO NOT want one. The idea is that any photo ID such
||as a drivers license or state issued ID in lieu of a drivers license
||would be all that is needed.
||
||
||Not so, Dana Goward, director of Coast Guard maritime domain
||awareness, is "very concerned about people doing harm with small
||vessels" and that it is “time to look at this other gap."
||
||Adm. Thad Allen, commandant of the Coast Guard says, "... that the
||issue needed extra attention." Allen is, also, in favor of
||"requir[ing] boat operators to have a special license," because that
||apparently has some magical power to allow us to "know to a degree of
||certainty who are operating boats out there."
||
||
||The USCG WRITTEN proposal specifically and emphaticaly rejects the
||idea of a new, separate ID. They want to require that you carry a
||drivers license or other similar ID.
||
|
|Cite?
|
|You don't need one, Gene.

No, you need one....

.....if you make a statement in this newsgroup that doesn't hold
water..... prepare to be asked for a citation. I posted the public
statements of the head of that organization and a citation to prove
that I didn't pull that bit of info from the inner recesses. You've
struck a pose, saying just the opposite of the words of the
commandant.... thus, if you know something to the contrary of what
has been published and cited, you need your own refuting citation.


|The USCG is already being asked to do a lot more with
|less funding. They can't even get obsolete worn out equipment replaced that was
|budgeted years ago. That includes many boats. Why on earth would they want to
|add the huge job of issuing and administering boater ID's? They don't have the
|money or manpower to keep up with what is already on their plate. Sheesh.

I agree with that 110%, but that has nothing whatsoever to do with
your unsupported statement.

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