A member of MAAC was recently disciplined – harshly – because he was accused of having caused the cancellation of MAAC’s Exemption from Part IX of CARs.  The member, who was suspended from MAAC, was suspended despite the fact that he did nothing deliberately to hurt the association.  In fact, the evidence used against him, that he wrongly sanctioned fields, is highly suspect.  It appears that exactly the same evidence can be found throughout MAAC’s records for scores of fields that are known to have been sanctioned and in use well before the June 2019 cutoff date.  That member has an excellent record of long service to his zone and to MAAC. The matters that led to the suspension should have been properly investigated (they were not) and, if any irregularities had been found, they could easily have been corrected by the person in charge of that aspect of our operation.  Instead, there was a history of personal antipathy towards the member in question, by the person making the accusation, and this made it far more satisfying to him that his nemesis be blamed.

Since the suspension, many efforts have been made to have the member reinstated, but they have met with flat refusal. It is regrettable that one malevolent individual can wield so much power over the entire administration, and use his vitriol to create such mayhem. The best that the suspended member can hope for now is that he may reapply in the future, but only for a membership that could include many restrictions.  The current president has suggested, verbally that this could include a lifetime ban on ever holding office in MAAC again

This suspension is directly connected to all of the other matters that have led to the wave of resignations. The time has come for the Board, or what is left of it, to take a realistic view of who is at the root of MAAC’s problems and do something about him.  The person who orchestrated this injustice is the one who failed to create an accurate list of fields existing prior to the 2019 cutoff date, failed to check his self-generated list with the zone directors in order to achieve greater accuracy, and then reported the matter to NavCan as someone else’s deliberate error, not his own oversight, without first clearing this action with the Board of MAAC.  It is that person who, virtually single-handedly, created the crisis, and then used it to wreak retribution upon someone who had disagreed with him in the past.