An appropriate response would have been a motion to quash. ALPA has an exposure, but it is not to the DPA. ALPA might be exposed to the member that they will be (if DPA's reports are correct) be forced to identify.

ALPA probably had no duty to defend a member for what amounted to a very small prank which was done on that person's own time and which was not directed by ALPA itself. ALPA had the right instinct, to defend a member from a mean-spirited cabal of knuckleheads taking up collections for the mere satisfaction of seeing another pilot's head on a stick. But, now ALPA is involved in something it should never have been involved in.

I am wondering when we stop tolerating some Delta pilots taking up collections to sue other Delta pilots with no damages and no clear goal other than harassment. And if this lawsuit is really about the DPA's rights to a vote, then why have we not granted the DPA leadership's wish to leave ALPA by processing a membership resolution to boot the whole lot of them? I will be happy to vote in favor of expulsion and when they seek resolution, they are welcome to come back in with my support. But, as long as their goal is to destroy ALPA and harm ALPA members it is my impulse that they do not deserve the privilege of membership.

I would prefer the DPA guys get their heads straight and join the rest of the Delta pilots and I'll be the first to serve cake and ice cream if they want to participate, but if they just want to cause trouble for other Delta pilots, then let them do so from outside the circle.