Prairiepiss wrote:The problem is. Many don't want to get involved. Because they are afraid of what may happen to them by exposing themselves. So is this group taking measures to protect those that want to help? And what guarantees do they have they will be protected?
Other question. Are you going to stick around here. And become a active member. Giving something to the community. Or is this the only post you are going to worry about. Till next year and sign up under yet another name. To try and push it more? And why is it that you or others from this group aren't participating here in HD. Seings how this is the largest home distilling forum on the net? I would think you would want the support of the largest forum on the net. And not taking an active part in discussions around here. Isn't the way to get support. Not in my book anyway. Where did this group form from?
Mr. Piss, You are quite right when you say that many don't want to get involved. They prefer to hide in their sheds and garages and let the other people do all the work. As you so graphically pointed out, I came to this forum last year under a false name of Alli - I was hiding in the shedhouse, afraid of the POPOs,, afraid the 5 guys in the Suburban would pop out in my driveway and confiscate my still or maybe worse. According to federal law, possessing an unregistered still is a felony punishable by no more than $10,000 and 5 years in the poky or both. My post got zero responses - no one would talk to me, I was the leper in the colony. So I gave up and went elsewhere. I was not aware that in order to be a listened to as an active talker on this forum, one had to talk distilling for weeks on end weather I knew what I was talking about or not. I am not a big talker about stuff I am not familiar with, nor do I answer questions when I don't know the answer. I like to listen and learn and keep my moth shut. I have not come back with "yet another name", I have come back with my real name. It feels good not to be afraid all the time.
The HDA is currently being run as a nonprofit subsidiary of Brewhaus Inc. America for expedience to get the process moving as soon as possible. If you saw the TTB news release last week, they made 8 arrests and confiscated 46 unregistered stills. They have the lists of those who have bought stills in the past 3 years - it is not hard to find the people on those lists. I spoke with Tom Hogue at the TTB who wrote the news release and we would not comment on anything that was not in the story. I suspect that these raids will only get worse so we can fight for legalization, register our stills or wait for them to come knocking. We have chosen to fight.
When you register to join HDA, your name and email address will be captured. They will not be available to the general public or the TTB. The names will be available to our lobbyists so that they can show the lists to congressmen/women - they want to be able say "see all there names and email addresses from all over the country that are behind this proposal?"
Am I going to hang around? I don't know. Depends on the response we get for our cause. There are no guarantees in this world. The association is being run temporarily as a subsidiary or Brewhaus Inc. America. Rick is currently fronting most of the money as a means to expedite the process. Since you say your is the biggest and best alcohol forum in the country, we hope to convince some of your members to join our cause and make this thing happen. Once it is legalized, everyone including the folks who don't want to get involved will benefit from our efforts.
If anyone wants to talk to me privately about this effort, send me an email at
tomcowdrey@yahoo.com. I'll even call you on the phone if you wish. Tom
