[Ansteorra] FW: [outlands] An Open Letter Re: Ibrahim and Ileanaand the Boar

[richard at duke.sca.org]

This issue has been THE topic of conversation on the SCA Royal Peers 
list for the last few days.  Whatever sordid deeds may, or may not, be 
taking place in the Outlands is not of interest to me, but any potential 
BOD action would be.  It is possible that BOD action in this case could 
set precedent as to how much the BOD will scrutinize a Crown's actions 
that are both SCA and Real World Lawful, but may conflict with unwritten 
Kingdom Custom.  These kind of things can and should be handled within a 
kingdom.  Though the  BOD is composed of well meaning individuals, it is 
possible for them to err as a deliberative body..  Input from the 
members can reduce the chance for BOD decisions which may be unpalatable 
to a significant  portion of the membership.

Regards,
Richard

Christie Ward wrote:

> Borek posted:
>
>> Since it was requested that this be forwarded to the lists for there 
>> involvement, Here is a bit of information from our neighbors to the 
>> west: (followed by a long forwarded email that I've clipped).
>
>
> This entire matter is something for the Outlands and the BoD to 
> handle.  I fail to see why this has been sent all over the whole known 
> world and why it was posted here.
>
> With investigations into problems at the BoD level, the SCA don't 
> publish all the facts for various reasons including the person's right 
> to privacy.  All the knight who posted this screed *knows* is that the 
> BoD is doing *something*.  He has no facts regarding what exactly the 
> wording of the complaint was, why the peerage was relinquished or 
> regiven, or anything useful. We have no way of knowing if there was 
> financial hanky-panky, actual mundane criminal action, or anything 
> else that might result in sanctions that a Crown *must* act upon -- no 
> matter how friendly towards a person the Crown is, the Crown and 
> usually the Kingdom Seneschal have a legal, real world duty to 
> exercise due diligence in some matters, and this may for all we know 
> be such a case.
>
> Despite this utter lack of actual facts regarding what is going on, 
> Sir Chicken Little wants to run around squawking that "The Sky Is 
> Falling! The BoD will henceforth prevent Crowns from making peers as 
> they see fit!" (And yes, you can tell him I said so.)
>
> Sheesh!  A little less hysteria.  Let the Outlands deal with their own 
> issues.
>
> ::GUNNVOR::
>
>
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