If I'm not doing anything wrong, why are you being nosy?
I have never liked that argument. It always seems that someone says that
when they're digging for something else, something that may not exist... in
short, presumed guilty until proven innocent. (Most magistrate's traffic
courts not withstanding, just ask my lawyer)
The burden of proof is not that I have to prove my innocence. The burden of
proof is that you have to show that you have reasonable cause to suspect my
innocence.
Merely entering a contest log is not in and of itself reasonable cause.
Keep up these unreasonable levels of scrutiny, and while I'll continue to
operate in contests, you won't see many of my logs submitted because I
refuse to have to prove my innocence up front! What's next... rejecting Q's
or diminishing their point value because the other station didn't submit a
log, therefore, you can't prove it was really them?
C'mon. Contests are supposed to be fun. Not examples of how to apply the
Bill of Rights!
73
-----Original Message-----
From: cq-contest-bounces@contesting.com
[mailto:cq-contest-bounces@contesting.com]On Behalf Of Donald Kerns
Sent: Friday, August 01, 2008 11:27 AM
To: Eric Hilding; cq-contest@contesting.com
Cc: nccc@contesting.com
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] [NCCC] Cheaters, Logs & Self-Policing
On Fri, 1 Aug 2008 07:46:40 -0700, Eric Hilding wrote
> Fear of getting caught cheating in some way appears to be main
> reason for keeping contest logs in a secret vault. There is no
> other *rational* reason.
"If you're not doing anything wrong, you don't have anything to worry
about."
That said, having open logs seems like a no brainer to me.
73 de Donald
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