[Ansteorra] Group Status Changes

[Paul DeLisle]

No-one really cares about the administrative fiction called the Western
Region...it was the high-handed disbanding of most of the groups *in* that
area; the usurpation of their funds, and the insistence that "FOR YOUR OWN
GOOD, if you want to play, you must now go X (or XXX) miles to this Barony
that you are now a part of, because we say so."

With everything else against them, taking away their identity and everything
they have worked for for years is One More Thing (in many cases, The Last
Straw.) There comes a time for everyone when they must say "enough!"

If the Crown (or the BOD) were to suddenly say that in spite of the decades
of dedication and development, and the thousands of people involved, "we
have decided that fencing is a Bad Idea, and now you can't do it...but here,
you can play with these nice pieces of foam...or you can play on the Armored
field"...would you just go "play the game, and enjoy life"?

Alden

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ansteorra-bounces at lists.ansteorra.org [mailto:ansteorra-
> bounces at lists.ansteorra.org] On Behalf Of David Whitford
> Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2008 1:26 AM
> To: Kingdom of Ansteorra - SCA, Inc.
> Subject: Re: [Ansteorra] Group Status Changes
> 
> Alden (and the other folks in places out west),
> I'm not trying to pick a fight or anything but Im really curious about
> something and maybe you (or another of the west folks) could answer.
> Before the area known as the Western region existed as an
> administrative collective there were groups out there, there was a
> unique sense of self, that they could handle anything. Now that the
> buisness label has been removed how does that remove what existed
> before the label? In many ways (to an outside observer) it seems it
> would free the folks from more than a few burdens (regional offices as
> just one example), and allow them to get back to what they always
> wanted...to just be able to play the game and enjoy life.
> Call me many things but in this case curious
> Robert
> 
> 
> --- On Tue, 7/15/08, Paul DeLisle <ferretpd at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> A WHole lotta stuff-snipped to save peoples eyes and rest their
> fingers.
> 
> 
> 
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