[Ansteorra] PENNSIC NEWS BLACKOUT

[Chris Zakes]

At 12:46 AM 8/14/2006, you wrote:

(snip)

>Greetings Again From Alina;
>
>I do not trust the board of directors considering the issue it a high
>priority. The BOD doesn't have a good track record. The populace
>deserve an explanation on the change.
>
>Again I Ask What Are They Hiding,
>Alina


Could you give some examples of the Board's "not having a good track record"?

In *my* experience, they are SCA folks just like the rest of us, and 
are honestly trying to do what's best for the SCA. If they do 
something stupid (like the brouhaha that happened about ten years 
ago) it's usually because they followed bad advice from someone they trusted.

Personally, I would not be surprised if this was a decision by the 
folks in charge at Pennsic, and the Board had nothing to do with it. 
My best guess--and remember that this is *only* a guess--is that 
someone raised the liability "what if we get sued?" bugaboo and the 
Pennsic staff over-reacted. (It's equally possible that there *is* a 
legitimate liability issue here--maybe the local laws have changed 
since last year, for example--but that doesn't explain why the 
Pennsic Mayor isn't answering questions, nor why it was changed in 
the middle of the war.)

This kind of reminds me of the year when the Pennsylvania tax 
authorities first noticed all the merchants at Pennsic, and they all 
had to fill out Pennsylvania sales tax forms.

         -Tivar Moondragon