Fwd: Re: NMS

James Crouchet jtc at io.com
Fri Jan 12 20:03:17 PST 1996


> From: Patricia Horton          \ Internet:    (horton at dhostwo.convex.com)
> Subject: NMS
> 
> I think I made a mistake and send my reply to just Savian, so here it is
again.
> With respect to the NMS. Inman fought the Board hard, but had to make
> concessions to keep things moving forward. After pay-to-play had dropped,
the
> Board instituted pay-to-fight. We were still refusing to collect the NMS
under
> Fredrick as Kingdom Seneschal. Just before Inman stepped down he made the
> offer, if the Board would drop pay-to-fight, we (Ansteorra) would collect
the
> NMS. The Board dropped pay-to-fight, leaving it up to the Kingdoms.

[More history deleted]

I think you miss my point. The whole thing was WRONG from the start. That
the board would only fix one wrong if they could put another in place was
also wrong! The coercion they used to get the NMS was wrong! I see these
promises as having about the same value as confessions extracted under
torture.

What made these things wrong? The fact that it was clearly not what the
membership wanted. These taxes and these actions violated our principals.
Once it became clear that this was not what the members wanted it should all
have been dropped. When the BOD refused and tried a power play instead they
should have found themselves alone.

You see, my views are based on the idea that the PEOPLE are the Society and
the BOD is not. Further, I believe if the PEOPLE went away there would be no
more SCA but if the BOD went away the Society would remain. I know the legal
fictions  say the opposite but I think they are just that, fiction. Am I
correct? I don't know. I know I would work to keep the Society alive if the
BOD went away and I doubt I am the only one. But even if we did lose it, at
least we could say the SCA died defending it's own ideals. I guess the
Society has taught me that it is often better to be right than correct.

Don Savian 




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