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[RC] Don't Blame the AERC (was: Mariposa Protest) - k s swigart

Dawn Carrie said:


Don't blame AERC for not doing something to
the rider, when no one bothered to file a protest.


You CAN blame the AERC if the members of the Board of Directors present
at the ride told everybody not to file a protest because it would serve
no purpose so people who otherwise might have chose not to.

And you CAN blame the AERC if the AERC has a long standing policy of
discouraging people from protesting by making it difficult...and now
that the AERC has found that the current rule for filing protests
doesn't discourage enough people, they have implemented one that will
discourage people further.

And the AERC would never have officially heard anything about it if a
new member who presumably has not yet figured out that the AERC would
rather not hear about rule violations didn't see fit to complain about
being assaulted by a disgruntled rider who DID know that the AERC
doesn't like to do anything about rule violations and got so mad he
decided to do something about it himself...admittedly the wrong thing
(he should have filed a protest despite being discouraged not to).

Yes you CAN blame the AERC.  It has had a long-standing policy of
discouraging protests. The old rule made reference to an "informal
procedure" which was, in essence, "do everything you can not to bother
us with this."  The new rule takes out the long paragraphs about the
informal procedure and just makes a brief reference to it and then tells
people that if you bother the AERC with it, it's gonna cost them $50 to
be right.*

kat
Orange County, Calif.

* From the new proposed Rule 14 (P&G):

"14.2.3. Filing Fee. A filing fee of $150 must be paid by the protestor
to the AERC by check, credit card or cash when the protest is filed. The
AERC shall refund $100 of the filing fee if the protest is granted."



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